Time: Dr Who

It's Good Friday so I spend it recuperating from a long week and watching 'Dr Who'. The new Dr Who makes his debut tomorrow but I spent the evening saying goodbye to the Tenth Doctor, David Tennant, watching the last two episodes and 'Dr Who Confidential'.

There are different ways of measuring time and one of them is by which Dr Who was yours. *My* Doctors are the two that straddled the '70s - Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker - after which all Doctors were inferior (obviously). And then Christopher Ecclestone became the face of the new Dr Who and David Tennant made us love the show again. And I do. I particularly liked the last series of the Doctor with Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, which was inspired casting.

Tonight was a double-bill of the Christmas and New Year episodes that say farewell to David Tennant and hello to the new Doctor, Matt Smith, plus the final 'Dr Who Confidential' with interviews with cast and crew of the series. It was quite sad, saying goodbye to the characters that have populated Saturday evenings for the last four years (and in the case of Sarah-Jane, several decades) and this is the first time a Doctor has been able to say goodbye to his friends on regeneration. It was strangely moving.

Tomorrow we'll see the first episode with Matt Smith as the Doctor. Will he be able to pull it off? We'll see.