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Arthur ASCII said:No one in particular Yithian, but I'm not a great TV watcher.
I just thought that there must be many good black actors out there who are resigned to acting roles as "mugger a" or "nurse b". and that's not fair.
Also, it'll show that the Doctor doesn't always regenerate as a white, upper-middle class Englishman.
Fair enough point about racial stereotyping but that's one of the half-jokes about Dr Who. He changes face every couple of years but all his incarnations, different and idiosyncratic though they may be, fit neatly into the 'Great British Eccentric' bracket and i can't think of any non-white that do. Hmm, don't think i'd want to see this change, but then i can be a sentimental bugger...
Saying that someone in the style of the Marquis de Carabas in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere might work but it'd take bit of getting used to.