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I actually can, having seen him in other stuff too. After series 7's somewhat lukewarm reception with me, I'm actually excited about this.

Oh... I remembered him as soon as I saw the picture.
I didn't remember he was both in FoP (which also had Amy!) and CoE, but I've got to say, he was hands down my favorite character of CoE, the only reason I don't hate that series.

Excited with the choice. Plus, they're finally giving up on youngsters, I was kinda afraid they'd cast a kid next, eheh.

Oh, silly me, he was also in The thick of it... I watched part of the movie, but I stopped early because I realized I probably should watch the show before the movie, but then I forgot about it.
He's been everywhere, eheh...

Interestingly, some of the other final contenders for the role were Ben Daniels (Tristan in Merlin season 4, basically a nice Daniel Craig lookalike, charismatic on his own terms), and Andrew Scott, aka Moriarty. As much as I'd love to see more of Scott, I can't say I could picture him as none other than Moriarty... He totally owned that part, and I guess, like most people, I want to see him be crazy in his own way, not the Doctor's way ;)
Still, I'd probably have voted for Capaldi, so all is good!

Very excited about it indeed! Bit disappointing to realise we still have to wait about a year until we can finally see him in the role...

In the mean time, there's this: http://youtu.be/5Blf073f2Lc

(although I already knew most of those "facts" - and I have watched every episode - well, every episode that still exists)

This one is more fun.... ComicCon

Found this in my local newspaper.....
Straw Dalek

 :)

The youtube-nocookie embeds above don't work on my Chrome Mobile... Scary. Here's wondering, is it the domain name's fault, or something else..?
(PS: what's in these videos anyway..?)

Interesting that youtube-nocookie doesn't work in Chrome, especially as they work fine in Mobile Safari - so it's pretty much a Chrome/Android thing?

The video content for the first two is a collection of interesting random trivia about DW, like the fact that the BBC obtained the trademark to the police box from the Metropolitan police in 2002 even though none of the outer designs ever exactly matched it. Or that the whole chameleon circuit failure was an easy way to avoid having a different huge prop every four episodes (back in the early days)

Had a look on my desktop. Thanks!

Best Google Street View easter egg ever! (Click the arrows leading to the police box) https://t.co/ekXvYt8njf

(Only works on the 'old' google maps!) :ph34r:‬

Not exactly an Easter Egg... that's Earl's Court. When the DW Experience was at Olympia (which is next to Earl's Court), they had that there for promotional purposes. As for the business listing, I'm not sure that's an easter egg either but actually set up intentionally. Could be wrong though ;)

That was my take also, but I just cut and pasted the link! ;)

Well, that exceeded my wildest expectations. Bloody brilliant, very exciting stuff. Good times indeed.

PS: @Nao, auto-embedding doesn't seem to work with https.