amazingly bonkers

TV While I was researching that last post, I came across what might well be the most utterly, amazingly bonkers blog post about Doctor Who I've ever seen. After some YouTube videos, Marc offers his vision for Season 32 of the series. Firstly some casting:

The Doctor:
1st choices – Emma Thompson and Jason Isaacs (tie)
2rd choice – Bill Nighy
3rd choice – Joanna Lumley

Companions:
Billy Boyd as David Wayne
Ruth Wilson as Maeve Sweeney

Guest Stars:
Natalie Portman as Susan Foreman
Elizabeth Hurley as The Rani
Ben Kingsley as the Castellan
Embeth Davidtz as Jane Austen
Jason Statham as The Enforcer

And hello to Jason Isaacs. But I love that he can't decide between him and Emma Thompson. Also, Embeth Davidtz? That's the kind of idiosyncratic casting decision the show itself has been capable of (Fenella Woolgar). Then his list of episodes. There's no point copy/pasting them all here, just make sure you don't miss a word. Sample:

"Thanks to new evidence procured by the Castellan, the Doctor is placed on trial for destroying Gallifrey. Tapes are shown of what he did in his 8th incarnation to defeat the Daleks during the last Time War, and how his actions led to the destruction of Gallifrey. The Doctor makes his case convincingly, but he is ultimately convicted because he sacrificed his home planet without even decisively defeating the Daleks in the process. He and his companions (including Susan) are sentenced to imprisonment in New Shada."

... written by Richard Curtis.