Stunt Casting? In Doctor Who??

Thanks to some unknownable technical reason (the Status page doesn't even acknowledge a problem exists), Paradise wasn't accessible last night or this morning. So, with not much else I can do, I start listening to a podcast of The Sci Fi guys, whom interview Elizabeth Sladen.

However, I haven't heard much, because they spend over an hour blathering about other stuff, starting off with Doctor Who. They complain about the current levels of writing, then get onto "news" and talk a certain potential sexy Cyberwoman (who is still 'doable').

One of their complaints was that this was stunt casting (probably), and that why should Doctor Who do this when it never used to?

...Huh???

Did they miss the JNT era of the series? He has been accused of many things, but one thing that is undoubtedly true is that he put big names in to get newspaper attention. People may call the show on it ("Hey, that's stunt casting.") but it will make people watch, and that's the point.

These guys call themselves fans. And yet, when they say something like that, I gotta wonder.