{"id":38128,"date":"2013-08-02T10:24:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T09:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=38128"},"modified":"2013-08-02T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T10:24:48","slug":"the-twelfth-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/the-twelfth-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"The twelfth Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The number 12 is special for<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/12_(number)\" title=\"The number 12\" target=\"_blank\">many reasons<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">: it is a sublime number; the human body has 12 cranial nerves; 12 people have walked on the moon; Twelve is a character in the Street Fighter video game; and soon, throughout all of time and space, there will be a twelfth Doctor. Lacking a TARDIS of our own, Cision has taken to social media and the blogosphere to work out, Doctor Who?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38131\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/TARDIS-166x250.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Who's TARDIS moving\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38131\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-38131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Tama Leaver<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At this point I\u2019ve probably lost a lot of people, but to the Whovians among you (or, indeed, those that enjoy a bit of social media analysis and speculation), welcome. Our first port of call for predictions is the bookies, as people generally put their money where their mouth is in such circumstances. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oddschecker.com\/novelty\/next-doctor-who\/winner\" title=\"Bookies' favourites for the next doctor\" target=\"_blank\">current favourites<\/a> to play the next Doctor are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Peter Capaldi 6\/4<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Daniel Rigby 3\/1<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Ben Daniels 5\/1<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Rory Kinnear 8\/1<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Andrew Scott 10\/1<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The highest placed female on the favourites list is Billie Piper at 25\/1 (the same odds as Harry Potter star Rupert Grint and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/infographic-hugh-grant-is-a-daily-mail-favourite\/\" title=\"Hugh Grant Daily Mail Favourite\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail favourite Hugh Grant<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>On social media, the conversation around the possible next doctor differs from the bookies\u2019 choices:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-next-DR-800x435.png\" alt=\"the twelfth Doctor on Social Media\" width=\"640\" height=\"348\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-38129\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peter Capaldi\u2019s first spot is largely thanks to his status as favourite. As for the bottom three, their fame is a likely factor as people are keen to discuss the possibility of \u2018Luther\u2019 or \u2018Ron\u2019 as the Doctor. Fame plays an interesting part in the Doctor Who choice with the current incarnation Matt Smith relatively unknown before being \u2018Time Lorded\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">What the web says<\/span><br \/><\/b>Using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/influencer-search\/\" title=\"Cision Influencer Search\" target=\"_blank\">Cision\u2019s Influencer Search<\/a>, we can explore the conversation from around the web, which is focused more on the announcement itself than the chosen actor or actress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Coventry Telegraph\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.coventrytelegraph.net\/passtheremote\/2013\/08\/identity-of-new-doctor-who-rev.html\" title=\"Pass the Remote!\" target=\"_blank\">Pass the Remote!<\/a> blog reports that the announcement will be made Sunday, explaining the BBC have managed to keep the identity secret [so far] by using the code word \u2018Houdini\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The BBC website seems to have an advantage as the first public announcement will be aired on BBC One. They\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-23546197\" title=\"BBC\" target=\"_blank\">pubished a radio conversation<\/a> with Doctor Who magazine editor Tom Spilsbury, discussing possible favourites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tv\/tv-news\/next-doctor-who-chosen-revealed-2115726\" title=\"The Mirror\" target=\"_blank\">The Mirror<\/a> reports that one of the favourites, Rory Kinnear, has been ruled out of the running following confirmation of his new role in a Lord Lucan drama on ITV1.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">So who is going to get it?<\/span><br \/><\/b>The chances are we won\u2019t actually know until Sunday at 7pm. While it is impressive that they have managed to keep the secret this long, it is likely that one of the names that have been thrown into the mix will be chosen.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Capaldi played a large role in the Torchwood special <a href=\"http:\/\/tardis.wikia.com\/wiki\/Series_3_(Torchwood)\" title=\"Children of Earth\" target=\"_blank\">Children of Earth<\/a>, which is set in the Doctor Who universe (Whoniverse?) so he already has established links with the programme. Billie Piper is obviously famous for her role as the Doctor\u2019s companion Rose Tyler and would be an understandable choice for the first female Doctor.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting name is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=daniel+rigby&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=isch&#038;sa=X&#038;ei=roD7UYr6OOiw7Qa5uYBo&#038;ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&#038;biw=1241&#038;bih=620\" title=\"Daniel Rigby Pictures\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Rigby<\/a>. As \u2018star\u2019 of the BT adverts he matches the lack of fame that many previous Doctors experienced at first. Also, his name is not popular on social media which suggests his place on the bookies\u2019 favourites list has roots elsewhere. This is all, of course, rumour, but his inclusion is one worth noting.<\/p>\n<p>As for my personal favourite, it has to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=daniel+rigby&#038;source=lnms&#038;tbm=isch&#038;sa=X&#038;ei=roD7UYr6OOiw7Qa5uYBo&#038;ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&#038;biw=1241&#038;bih=620#tbm=isch&#038;sa=1&#038;q=andrew+scott&#038;oq=andrew+scott&#038;gs_l=img.3..0l10.224686.226636.0.226714.12.9.0.3.3.0.52.342.9.9.0....0...1c.1.23.img..0.12.353.VsFyeP2kuwA&#038;bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&#038;bvm=bv.50165853%2Cd.ZG4%2Cpv.xjs.s.en_US.seW1cfrvSKg.O&#038;fp=628e17cf38fb8560&#038;biw=1241&#038;bih=620\" title=\"Andrew Scott images\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Scott<\/a>. Not because he has ties with Doctor Who\u2019s writer and producer Stephen Moffat (from his time on Sherlock playing Moriarty) but because I passed him on the street last night. If that isn\u2019t proof, I don\u2019t know what is.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">The graphs and social media analysis were made possible by<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/products-and-services\/social-media-monitoring\/\" title=\"Cision Social Media\" target=\"_blank\">Cision Social Media<\/a> <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">via<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/products-and-services\/cisionpoint\/\" title=\"CisionPoint\" target=\"_blank\">CisionPoint<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">. The internet discussion was found using Cision\u2019s free<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/influencer-search\/\" title=\"Influencer Search\" target=\"_blank\">Influencer Search<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number 12 is special for many reasons: it is a sublime number; the human body has 12 cranial nerves; 12 people have walked on the moon; Twelve is a character in the Street Fighter &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":38134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,5741],"tags":[4791,4792,4793,4794,4795,4797,4798,4789,4790],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}