Writer's Block: Doctor Who?

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I don't have an "ideal" doctor, but I agree with Moffat's comment a few months ago about there needs to be a grandfather-like feel to the actor. He/She doesn't necessarily need to be old, but needs to have a personality that conveys the age of the Doctor. I'm going to need to be won over by Matt Smith.

Names I would throw into the casting hat for the Doctor include:
* Stephen Fry

* Jack Davenport

* Bill Nighy

* Rowan Atkinson (I know he's been the Doctor before - kinda - but he could be similar to the Patrick Troughton's Doctor)

* Jonathan Rhys Meyers

* Robert Carlyle