Casting

[iaminspectorspacetime]

Sept 27, 2011 6:18:18 GMT -5 carty239 said:

Sept 27, 2011 5:30:58 GMT -5 @Richard said:

Hi, just discovered the existence of all this canon! Been doing a bit of work on it myself. As far as a real actor for the 1st Inspector goes, if you are looking to replace Hartles, I discovered Leslie French was the first choice for the rip-off copycat show that came around a year later. It is possible he wasn't available for it as he was doing IS.

I think he looks the part:
www.bbc.co.uk/archive/imageArchive/images/10303_gall_003.jpg

(Richard is now known as Carty239) Turns out he did actually appear in 'The Other Show' for 1 ep as well. Don't know if that helps or hinders

That's a good idea. And it's ok if he was in DW too. DW took a lot of actors from IS.

[kenjindomini]

Sept 27, 2011 5:35:19 GMT -5 @birdhead said:

Hannah Spearitt for Lily Taylor? (She's about the same age as Billie and therefore available at the same time and, obviously, they're both 90s popstars.)

Yes please!
I can make this canon on the Wiki if no one disagrees.
Correction: I have made this canon on the wiki. If the majority of the community disagrees it can be changed.

[carty239]

Haha, Hannah Spearitt makes me want to find something to do with Andrew-Lee Potts. Mostly for this picture:

scifiandtvtalk.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/alice3.jpg

And the many of him with her. Sadly, I don't think there's space in the canon, but hopefully the picture will amuse!

[ailelie]

Andrew Lee Potts could be Aidan?

Also, proposing Amara Karan for Angie.

[iaminspectorspacetime]

Sept 27, 2011 17:27:06 GMT -5 ailelie said:

Andrew Lee Potts could be Aidan?

Also, proposing Amara Karan for Angie.

Possible. We should get a proposed list of casting for the 11 episodes and then have a vote.

[kenjindomini]

A non-Caucasian Angie does give her an exotic streak, which lends itself to the possible "she's an alien" proposed plot line. Amara also recently showed up in that ripoff...will they ever learn to be a little original?
I would love to see Andrew Lee Potts as Aidan

[ailelie]

I actually thought of Karan b/c she was (a) awesome in God Complex, and (b) she apparently auditioned for Amy Pond. I figure a back story could be that she got the part, but turned it down in favor of playing Angie.

[leitzankatan]

How about peter sellers for first inspector but he left to do pink panther?

[leitzankatan]

Sept 27, 2011 18:14:36 GMT -5 ailelie said:

I actually thought of Karan b/c she was (a) awesome in God Complex, and (b) she apparently auditioned for Amy Pond. I figure a back story could be that she got the part, but turned it down in favor of playing Angie.

YES! this is what I was thinking but then I got distracted.

also, in relation to andrew lee pots, I've got a confession coming up that says he auditioned for inspector, so it makes sense that he got cast as companion instead.
+sorry for all the non-canon confessions but some of them have been queued since before there was a lot of the current canon.

[iaminspectorspacetime]

Sept 27, 2011 19:14:44 GMT -5 leitzankatan said:

Sept 27, 2011 18:14:36 GMT -5 ailelie said:

I actually thought of Karan b/c she was (a) awesome in God Complex, and (b) she apparently auditioned for Amy Pond. I figure a back story could be that she got the part, but turned it down in favor of playing Angie.

YES! this is what I was thinking but then I got distracted.

also, in relation to andrew lee pots, I've got a confession coming up that says he auditioned for inspector, so it makes sense that he got cast as companion instead.
+sorry for all the non-canon confessions but some of them have been queued since before there was a lot of the current canon.

I agree.

I'm all for ethnic diversity too though. (But need to be careful not to make it feel too "planned to appeal to every demographic~" . Like a math text book. )

I was thinking Rhapsody/Aidan/someone else who is cool could be non-caucasian. Perhaps Middle Eastern? We could cast him/her with an Iranian/Iraqi/Saudi/someone along those lines actor since the new episodes are meant to be coming out in the present day and politics right now says that Europe and the US is having tension with the middle east. Making a badass character at least vaguely from that area of the world is just the kind of statement this sort of show would make.

[sivartis]

Sept 26, 2011 22:12:19 GMT -5 iaminspectorspacetime said:

Sept 26, 2011 21:44:44 GMT -5 ailelie said:

For the wiki-- I'm not sure how to do photos, but here is a pic of Obi (a rare glimpse of the Inspector without his glasses): unitedagents.co.uk/sites/default/files/Chris-Obi.jpg

And Richey: ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTYxMjA3MjI5MF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzY2MTQ3Mg@@._V1._SY314_CR126,0,214,314_.jpg

Is Richey aware that all this is happening?

I am now :-)
~Trav

[leitzankatan]

Jamie Bamber for Captain James Haggard?
also Mark Sheppard needs to have been in at least one episode, I mean this is an awesome sci-fi show so it stands to reason.

[iaminspectorspacetime]

Sept 28, 2011 2:58:17 GMT -5 sivartis said:

Sept 26, 2011 22:12:19 GMT -5 iaminspectorspacetime said:

Is Richey aware that all this is happening?

I am now :-)
~Trav

Oh shi--

[billhedrick]

Sept 27, 2011 18:40:57 GMT -5 leitzankatan said:

How about peter sellers for first inspector but he left to do pink panther?

I posit that he was going to be in the 1966 Movie version, but that the BBC didn't like his take. Sellers was going to play the Inspector as a bumbling boob. then they reworked it, took out the SF and made the lead character French,

[georgiathekiwi]

Do you know who we need on the show?

Mark Freakin' Sheppard.