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More: Jodie was apparently only told last night.

Some nice background info:

Again: Literally every white or off-white dude under 35 who joins this show gets claimed as Morgan by fans. I really don't think it's Morgan.

Yet more from RTD in the British press:

Harmony was creepy as hell and I could never have bought her as a regular character. Good riddance.

A longer BAFTA interview clip:

Per RTD, Jodie Whittaker's finale is apparently 90 minutes:

Janet Fielding (more added as possible): I think the Capaldi era was largely excellent and still underrated, but I do think by the end it was time for a change from Moffat (just not Chibnall). I also liked Bill a lot, but I don't think they needed to do another improbably happy ending for a companion where a death is inverted just like Clara's. I will agree the Chibnall companions are total ciphers. It is not a coincidence that the only actors that have managed to break out a little in the current era are established performers with their own preexisting name brands - Bradley Walsh and John Bishop.

Just now on the BAFTA red carpet with Gatwa and RTD. Seems he may go blond. He's known since February. Shades of Matt Smith - RTD says Gatwa was their last audition and 'stole it'. IIRC Smith did something similar from out of nowhere.

From Georgia Tennant (who played "The Doctor's Daughter"):

Gatwa may be presenting at the BAFTAs tonight, possibly with Jodie Whittaker. From RTD:

A recent Netflix interview for Sex Education, the show he does with Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson:

@DRW50 He's here. Gatwa is also queer.

She looks amazing in everything she's been in lately.

Good to know. Meanwhile, as alluded to above:

Who is this?

Oh, he did a great job. And he was in so much other excellent stuff.

And VM only quit at the time because they wouldn't give her some time off or a lighter schedule for her then-very-small child. I don't know how she survived that schedule tbh.

I also like RSW. Always have, even back on AMC. He is no thespian but he has a certain intensity which works for him. I blame RC.

I think she's always been way ahead of the show tbh. She's a better actress than the genre these days IMO. I'd still try to secure her for Serena on GH though.

Ellen Wheeler was incompetent and unstable, and not fit to run GL. No amount of years she spent winning hearts playing Marley on television will change that. I liked her as an actress. As an EP, she turned GL into something just above snuff film. And that's before I even get started on her, uh, mentor, who went from being hailed for giving AW a graceful exit and revitalizing ATWT to running it into the ground for years, to say nothing of whatever the hell he did to Martha Byrne which she still doesn't openly speak about.

I think some part of Kim was more comfortable in the stripped down stuff tbh. In her memoir she freely admits she 'let myself go' physically and stopped caring about how she looked due to depression over the state of the show at the time, and I think she may have said she was also been undergoing menopause somewhere in that decade but I can't recall the timeline. But I think stripped of so much of the tacky Rauch, etc. artifice on an aimless and often plotless show, her real grit and character came out again onscreen. And I don't think she was super bitter to be shed of the ridiculous fantasy/royal palace storylines, if nothing else.

The lighting is rough and I have zero interest in Crystal Chappell's vanity webseries, but I'm not gonna hate on Zimmer or RN. I think he looks good, and Kim is letting herself age naturally and not chasing the sexpot stuff they put her through in the late '90s and early 2000s which didn't suit her at all and which even then she frankly did not have the looks for. IMO her performances leveled up considerably from the Rauch era in the last, sad years of GL while the rest of the show went to hell, and a big part of that was because she (by her own admission) stopped caring about how she looked and the scripts were a mess, so she just went off raw talent. She never reminded me more of a British soap matriarch than she did in those days. She still does.