#“BBC Children In Need”

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[dryadalisliv]

I don’t think that we, as a society, talk enough about Uther cc’ing someone on the email

[adhd-merlin]

[doverstar]

was today years old when discovering that the eleventh doctor wears leather trousers. his trousers are made of black leather. Black leather with the ends rolled up and I. have no idea what to think-

[cynical-canidae]

This expression is killing me.

[i-am-tenough]

David Tennant quietly running through his lines for the Children in Need special.

The facial expressions!

[princesscatherineblog]

The Princess of Wales supporting BBC's Children In Need 2023.

[sandunerhymes]

On Doctor Who, Disability and Davros

Russel T Davies in Doctor Who: Unleashed, Children in Need Special

We had long conversations about bringing Davros back because he's a fantastic character. Time and society and culture and taste has moved on, and there's a problem with the Davros of old in that he's a wheelchair user who is evil...

...and I've had problems with that, and a lot of us on the production had problems with that, of associating disability with evil and, trust me, there's a very long tradition of this.

I'm not blaming people in the past at all, but the world changes and when the world changes, Doctor Who has to change as well.

So we made the choice to bring back Davros without the facial scarring and without the wheelchair, or his support unit, which functions as a wheelchair. I say this is how we see Davros now. This is what he looks like. This is 2023. This is our lens. This is our eye. Things used to be in black and white, they're not in black and white anymore. And Davros used to look like that and he looks like this now. And that we are absolutely standing by.

I think, because it's Children in Need night, it's a night where issues of disability or otherness or being excluded from society come right to the front of the conversation. So, of all the nights to make this change, I thought it was absolutely vital to do this, and I'm very very proud of the fact that we have.

Russell talking about disability representation in Doctor Who, straight away, in the very first episode is making me feel things.

Do I agree with everything he's said about disability representation and villains, absolutely (see every James Bond film/book.)

Do I agree with their approach to Davros? Maybe, maybe not. It's a very complicated topic on which I do not have the lived experience to speak.

But they are thinking about it. And they clearly care. And that fills me with so much hope for the future.

N.B. I copied the interview transcript from the current BBC iPlayer subtitles. All inaccuracies and emphasis are my own. Please let me know of any errors.

[katherynefromphilly]

Someone please get David Tennant to talk to Colin Morgan about revisiting Merlin for Children In Need?

The little Doctor Who story that creative team put together for that charity was a lovely little piece of storytelling.

If only they’d do something like that for BBC Merlin too!

[mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora]

I see that everyone’s perfectly normal about this

And I especially love the fact that David+Michael are indeed the most popular tag

[tickle-me-dalek]

I did some research on the name, sir.

BBC Children in Need 2023 | Doctor Who [x]

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

David Tennant’s Cover of Sunshine on Leith Is Actually Really Good

So I actually listened to bits and pieces from the entire Children In Need- We’ve Got It Covered album, and… David is kind of one of the only people on there who sounds like he knows what he’s doing? For one thing, he’s one of the ONLY people they don't autotune to high heaven, AND he doesn’t sound like he’s bored! Like the album is full of fantastic actors but most of them don't really know how to translate their acting abilities to singing. But David genuinely puts a lot of heart and emotion into his cover, and his voice has so much texture and character- he’s got a lovely vibrato and the perfect folksy, unpolished timbre for a song like this.

David’s a huge proclaimers fan, so clearly this is a song he loves. It’s actually a rather difficult song to make engaging, because it’s quite repetitive, but david does a great job giving each repeated phrase a slightly different flavor. He’ll do a soft, gentle “my tears are dryin,” then when he sings it again, his voice will tremble as he raises in volume- it’s a genuinely moving vocal.

This isn’t just me being a biased fangirl- I’m a musical theatre major, I know my shit! And I love this cover, I listen to it all the time! In terms of actors who aren’t trained vocalists, I’d give David around a 7.5- what he lacks in technical skill he’s more than capable of making up for in feeling with the right material. I honestly jsut really want to see David do a musical or a role involving music in some capacity, because his performances are so like music to me!

[doctorwho247]

The Doctor's new companion will be revealed TONIGHT on BBC Children in Need in the UK.

Tune into BBC One from 7pm and keep following our blog for updates!

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[lyricstranscribedfartooquickly]

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– Perfect Day, Lou Reed