{"id":530036,"date":"2010-04-16T16:19:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=16659"},"modified":"2010-04-16T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:19:26","slug":"doctor-who-blasts-into-strategy-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/530036","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who Blasts into Strategy Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-16663\" href=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/04\/16\/doctor-who-blasts-into-strategy-room\/doctor_who\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16663\" title=\"Doctor Who\" src=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/04\/Doctor_Who-259x145.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Who,\u201d the UK\u2019s longest running sci-fi series, starts a new chapter this week.\u00a0 The show has a new star in the title role, actor Matt Smith, and fans can soon watch it on this side of the pond on BBC America.<\/p>\n<p>\u202aSmith and co-star Karen Gillan joined me on FoxNews.com\u2019s Strategy Room this week.\u00a0 Our viewers from Arizona to Illinois to Florida flooded my inbox with excited emails and questions for the stars.\u00a0 One compared Smith to James Dean, while another said his son is the series&#8217; biggest fan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For those who aren\u2019t familiar with \u201cDr. Who,\u201d Smith explained his character.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Who is a 907-year-old who travels through space and time,\u201d Smith said.\u00a0 \u201cWhat\u2019s sort of brilliant about it is, from one week to the next, he can be in the past or the future.\u00a0 And he does all this with a companion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His companion is the lovely Amy Pond, played by Scottish actress Gillan. When the pair first meet, Amy is just seven years old.\u00a0 Gillan says this plotline led to a role for her young cousin.<\/p>\n<p>\u202a\u201cThey needed an actress to play a younger version of me,&#8221; said Gillan.\u00a0 &#8220;And because I have a weird sort of Highland accent and ginger hair, it\u2019s not sort of easy to find.\u00a0 So they asked me if I knew anyone, any relatives, and I put her forward and she nailed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once Amy grows up, she and Dr. Who meet again and soon find themselves saving the world.\u00a0 The adventure begins at 9\/8 Central Saturday on BBC America &#8211; good news for our Strategy Room viewers who love sci-fi.<\/p>\n<p>\u202aStay tuned to the Strategy Room for special guests, hot topics and lively discussion that includes YOU!\u00a0 Catch the Strategy Room Entertainment Hour weekdays at 12et online at <a href=\"http:\/\/live.foxnews.com\/strategy-room\">http:\/\/live.foxnews.com\/strategy-room<\/a> and send your emails during the LIVE show to strategyroom@foxnews.com\u00a0to join the conversation.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDr. Who,\u201d the UK\u2019s longest running sci-fi series, starts a new chapter this week.\u00a0 The show has a new star in the title role, actor Matt Smith, and fans can soon watch it on this side of the pond on BBC America. \u202aSmith and co-star Karen Gillan joined me on FoxNews.com\u2019s Strategy Room this week.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}