It has been in the press this week, that the BBC upped the ante, and sweetened the pot on actor David Tennant's pay raise, from 1.3 millon pounds to one and a half million.
Doctor Who is the BBC's #1 money-earner abroad, and the series finale drew in 10 million viewers inside the UK alone. Millions more around the globe--from Japan, to Australia, from North America to Iceland will tune in to the finale. Some estimates are that Episode 13 is expected to be watched by at least 40 million people, worldwide (while Series 4 is done in the UK, and winding down in the US, it is just beginning in other parts of the world, or has yet to be shown.)
Though David Tennant is still mulling it over, rumour has it that "he's very interested."
Well, DOH.
Yeah, well, wave the equivelent of a three million dollar pay cheque in my face, and I'd bloody well "be interested" too!
I mean, I suppose the man's wealthy enough, that he can afford to turn down that kind of money...but speaking as one of America's poor and downtrodden, "David, whattda' you, flippin' NUTS??? Take the effin' money boy! I know you have one of those expensive hybrid cars, and don't have to worry about the cost of petrol, but...geez".
Really hard to wrap my head around somone--who's not a priest or Mother Teresa, turning down an offer like that. Geez Louise. (I'm trying to stop swearing, hence the Yankee colouiqualism, or howsoever you spell that--what I really meant was "S 
!)
Tennant has already filmed the Christmas episode for 2008, and is slated to return to the BBC Wales studios in January, to film three Doctor Who specials, which will be aired in the latter half of 2009. It is not known who Tennant's new companion will be, for the specials. One rumour has it that Tate may evenually return--tho' Catherine Tate seems to be pointing in a different direction in her career, at the moment--The insider's rumours are mixed on this--with one person hinting yes, and the other saying absolutely not. But...hey, they brought back Rose, Davros, Captain Jack and Jenny--the Doctor's daughter all back from the "dead," so...? One thing I learned about DW a long, long time ago, is that...anything goes.
In Doctor Who, it ain't over till' it's over--and the Doctor regenerates!
lledeb
I would do Doctor who for free,, but then, I cant act to save my life.
It does make you think though, during the so called credit crunch how the BBC can pay its stars so much when there are people who cant even afford to heat the room.