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I love it when they pick the unknowns. Everyone deserves a break.

No, seriously. It’s Matt Smith. Who’s he? Doesn’t matter! It’s Doctor Who!!!

At just 26 years old, Smith will be the youngest Doctor ever, beating Peter Davison, who was 29 when he was cast as the Fifth Doctor.

Brought up in Northampton and initially planning to become a professional footballer, Smith studied drama and creative writing at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Since then he has carved out a very respectable theatre career, his stage roles including Lockwood in The History Boys and Guy in Swimming with Sharks, opposite Christian Slater. He appeared in On the Shore of the Wide World, which won the 2006 Olivier Award for Best New Play.

His most notable TV role was a Labour researcher Danny Foster in BBC’s political drama Party Animals. He also appeared in The Ruby in the Smoke, its sequel The Shadow in the North and an episode of The Secret Diary of a Call Girl – all three of them opposite former Doctor Who companion Billie Piper.

This might just be groovy although Eccleston and Tennant were AMAZING.

I’m a Doc Who geek. Shut up.

It’s a great show.

Shout out to LeBlanc. DUDE!

Squirrel Queen has a post that clearly points out that the BBC has a better sense of humor than anything coming out of the United States right now.

How about a Zombie Big Brother. I’m in.

The storyline of this fictional show has the castmembers of a Big Brother show trapped in their home playing to win the cash prize while outside the house/set zombies have taken over the world. Then when each houseguest is eliminated, they exit the safe house and the first thing they encounter is the undead seeking to eat their brains.

How is that for groovy.

From the Guardian:

Brooker has conjured up a very clever satire, mocking the people who take part in these shows and the sort of people who watch them. In one brief scene a zombie, drooling blood and spittle, sits transfixed by the Big Brother live feed. Such are the perils of watching too much telly.

Endemol, which makes Big Brother, also produced Dead Set. Talk about having your cake – or should that be zombie? – and eating it.

It is also very scary. In an era when TV eschews the horror genre, I can’t remember anything quite like it. It makes Ultraviolet – remember that? – look like children’s hour.

Hoping I can find a bootleg somewhere because if you watch the clip at the link, there is a ton of bitching awesome going on here.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4pY3QtiGyo]

From the BBC.