The Eleventh Doctor (CON episode)

The Eleventh Doctor
Broadcast on:	BBC Three
Series number:	4
Broadcast date:	3 January 2009
Runtime:	30 minutes
Key crew
Narrator:	Anthony Head
Doctor Who Confidential
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The Eleventh Doctor was a special episode of Doctor Who Confidential broadcast to announce the casting of Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor. Like One Year On, this special does not feature any particular Doctor Who episode. Instead, it features clips and discussions regarding every past Doctor, which lead up to the announcement about the Eleventh.

The announcement of Matt Smith's successor would similarily appear on TV, this time in the form of a live event, four years later on 4 August 2013, where Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor aired on BBC One, announcing the casting of Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor.

Aspects of production covered

• Countdown to reveal who is playing the Eleventh Doctor
• A look back at the Doctor's outfit from each of his incarnations
• The Doctor's romances with Grace Holloway and Rose Tyler, and his strained relationship with Martha Jones
• The return of Doctor Who in 2005 and the casting of Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant
• Behind the scenes of TV: The Christmas Invasion
• Speculation that David Morrissey would become the Eleventh Doctor
• The "grandfather figure" that the First Doctor potrayed, and the major change of personality during the Second Doctor era
• The Third Doctor being potrayed as the "action hero"
• The eccentricity of the Fourth Doctor
• The youthfulness of the Fifth Doctor
• Doctor Who in the late 1980s, with the Sixth and Seventh Doctors
• The very short tenure of Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor (on television)

Additional topics covered

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People interviewed

• David Tennant
• Matt Smith
• Russell T Davies
• Elisabeth Sladen
• Steven Moffatt

Elements retained in Cut Down

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Home video releases

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