While it will be difficult to ever replace Philip Gilbert’s legendary voice as TIM in the original Tomorrow People, The CW is surely hoping that a new TIM will be just as well-liked… so, they got a TV favorite to take the role.
Dan Stevens, who played Matthew Crawley in the first three seasons of Downton Abbey, has been tapped to voice TIM the iconic “bio-computer.” While resembling a little bit of an overhead projector in the pilot at least, TIM was a huge information system in the days before we all had an Internet to turn to.
Temporary tracks for the Tomorrow People pilot that was sent to press featured director Danny Cannon voicing the character.
This news was broken by Entertainment Weekly earlier today, and The Tomorrow People will premiere in just five weeks, October 9 on The CW. Come talk about The Tomorrow People on our forum for the show!
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I think Dan Stevens will make a wonderful Tim!
True, the Tim voice, Timus, and the Timus clone Tikno were writ large by the stature and grace of Philip Gilbert, but Dan Stevens definitely has the voice for Tim. Also, I think he would be able to connect a little better to the Tomorrow People. Timus was a tad aloof, and even when he asked whether his behavior was proper for Earthlings, he still didn’t “get it.” But maybe that was the character. Tikno, on the other hand, was more personable and on equal status with the Tomorrow People in the original series.