Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who - making him the youngest actor to take on the role.

At 26, Smith is three years younger than Peter Davison when he signed up to play the fifth Doctor in 1981.

Smith will first appear on TV screens as the 11th Doctor in 2010.

He was cast over Christmas and will begin filming for the fifth series of Doctor Who in the summer. Tennant is filming four specials in 2009.

Smith was named as Tennant's replacement in Saturday's edition of Doctor Who Confidential on BBC One.

He said: "I've got this wonderful journey in front of me where I've got this six months to build this Time Lord - and that's such an exciting prospect."

Piers Wenger, head of drama at BBC Wales, said that as soon as he had seen Smith's audition he "knew he was the one".

"It was abundantly clear that he had that 'Doctor-ness' about him," he said. "You are either the Doctor or you are not."

The 11 Doctors
Peter Davison
1. William Hartnell (1963-1966)
2. Patrick Troughton (1966-1969)
3. Jon Pertwee (1970-1974)
4. Tom Baker (1974-1981)
5. Peter Davison - pictured (1982-1984)
6. Colin Baker (1984-1986)
7. Sylvester McCoy (1987-1996)
8. Paul McGann (1996)
9. Christopher Eccleston (2005)
10. David Tennant (2005-2010)
11. Matt Smith (2010 - ?)

Wenger said a broad range of people had been auditioned, but they had not set out to cast the youngest Doctor. Smith's TV debut was in the 2006 adaptation of Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke, which starred former Doctor Who companion Billie Piper as Sally Lockhart. He has also acted opposite Piper in the follow-up, The Shadow in the North, and in ITV2's Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

In 2007, he had a leading role in BBC Two's political drama Party Animals, in which he played a parliamentary researcher. Smith's stage work has included stints with theatre companies such as the Royal Court and National Theatre. His West End debut was in Swimming With Sharks opposite Christian Slater. He was born in Northampton in 1982 and studied drama and creative writing at the University of East Anglia.

Tennant said in October that he would stand down from the show after filming four special episodes in 2009. The star is due to begin shooting the first special this month, just weeks after surgery on his back forced him to pull out of a London run of Hamlet.

The last of these special episodes is expected to run in early 2010. With a new creative team in place for the 2010 series led by executive producers Steven Moffat and Piers Wenger, the casting of the Doctor was the first job to be completed before scripts could be finalised. Doctor Who began in 1963, and seven actors played the Doctor before the show was dropped in 1989.

After a TV movie in 1996 - starring Paul McGann - the TV series returned in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston in the lead role. Tennant took over the same year.
Source: BBC

급 구글링 결과.. 별로 유명한 배우는 아닌가?;;;  아무튼 젊은 독타라니 급관심!!! +_+

Will Ricky Gervais Visit American Office?

• Nov 7, 2008 05:11 PM ET by Erin Fox
  Is a merger in store for The Office? Ricky Gervais, the brilliant mind behind the British original, tells TVGuide.com he'd like to appear in NBC's Americanized version.
  
  Gervais even has an idea for how he could appear: as himself, playing struggling actor Andy Melman on HBO's Extras.
  
  "I'd quite like them to maybe be watching an episode of Extras, and Michael Scott comes along and goes, 'This guy is no good. If they ever do a remake, I think I should do that part."
  
  Of course, Gervais and American Office star Steve Carrell worked together before in an Emmys routine about Carrell picking up Gervais' Emmy for Extras. They also appeared in a Saturday Night Live routine about a Japanese version of The Office, though not together.
  
  Gervais spoke to TVGuide.com at the World Premiere of HBO's Ricky Gervais: Out of England — The Stand-up Special at the Paley Center for Media on Thursday. (Watch the video below!) He said he wanted to do a stand-up special for the challenge, and because he felt a little guilty that other comedians have had to do stand-up for 20 years before landing sitcoms.
  
  Gervais wrote, directed and stars in his next project, Nothing But the Truth, which costars 30 Rock's Tina Fey. He calls Fey "the most famous woman in America."
  
  Would you like to see Gervais pop up on The Office? Who do you think he should play?

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The Office UK의 주인공 Ricky Gervais가 US판에 출연할 수도 있다고...:)
본인이 출연했던 Extras의 엑스트라 배우 역할.. 이 역할도 꽤나 진상인데.. ㅋㅋ 아무튼 출연하게 된다면 스티브 카렐과 기싸움 한 판 하실듯. 출연 성사됐음 좋겠다!!
HBO에서는 리키 저베이스 스탠딩 코미디 시리즈 방송한다는데.. 장르 안가리고 웬만한 해외 컨텐츠는 너끈하게 소화 가능한 나이지만 스탠딩 코미디 문화는 아직도 이해하기 힘들다 ㅠ_ㅠ 웃음 포인트를 잘 모르겠어.. 무자막으로 달리기도 힘들고.. ㅠ_ㅠ