I think there’s something so beautiful, touching and mysterious about the story of Doctor Who. It’s about someone who isn’t innately special. It’s the trials and tribulations, joys and discoveries of a renegade who just wanted to explore.

Series 9 was again commissioned for 12 regular episodes, starring Capaldi as the Doctor and Coleman as Clara. The series premiered on 19 September 2015 with the episode "The Magician's Apprentice". Most of the series consisted of two-part stories, with the exception of the ninth episode "Sleep No More" acting as a standalone story and the final three episodes forming a loose three-parter. Coleman departed from the show in the series finale "Hell Bent", broadcast 5 December 2015. The 2015 Christmas special, "The Husbands of River Song", saw Alex Kingston return for the character River Song's final appearance. Following the 1996 television movie, Universal retained some rights to produce new Doctor Who stories, but without a broadcaster attached, they allowed those rights to expire. Full production rights, therefore, reverted to the BBC in 1997.I’m sorry, sir. I can guarantee that it will never happen again. It was an accident and I didn’t mean to do it.’ On 22 January 2016, the BBC announced that Moffat would be stepping down as showrunner after series 10 of Doctor Who and would be replaced by Chris Chibnall as lead writer and executive producer. In addition, series 10 would debut in Spring 2017, with a Christmas special airing in 2016. [42] On 30 January 2017, Peter Capaldi announced he would be stepping down as the Twelfth Doctor in the 2017 Christmas special. [43]

Although, strictly speaking,’ the teacher went on, ‘it’s actually the beginning. Of everything. Of the future you. Or is it the past? It’s so confusing sometimes. Time is a many-splendoured thing when you really stop and take a look.’ Nathan-Turner and the new script editor, Christopher H. Bidmead, sought to return to a more serious tone for the series, reining in much of the humour that had been prevalent during Williams' tenure. The new producer also sought to bring the show "into the 1980s", commissioning a new title sequence, bringing all the incidental music in-house to be produced electronically by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and commissioning Peter Howell of the Workshop to come up with a brand-new arrangement of the series' famous theme tune. This displeased both Baker and his co-star Lalla Ward, who did not see eye-to-eye with Nathan-Turner on the new direction. Doctor Who – News – Kylie Boards Titanic!". BBC News. Archived from the original on 25 November 2007. Amy Pond looks for her Raggedy Man, Jo Grant remembers her childhood, the Master hunts the past . . . a young girl discovers a love for explosives.Doctor Who. It’s not only a title; it’s a central question to our beloved show. Just who is the Doctor? Ever since the programme’s debut story, 1963’s An Unearthly Child, mystery was a compelling and driving feature of the character simply known as ‘the Doctor’. Doctor Who is a British television science fiction series, produced and screened by the BBC on the BBC TV channel from 1963 to 1964, and on BBC1 (later BBC One) from 1964 to 1989 and since 2005. A one-off television film, co-produced with Universal Pictures and 20th Century Fox Television, was screened on the Fox Network in the United States in 1996. It so spectacularly shreds what the character of the Doctor is that it’s laughable. It utterly fails as a coherent, well thought-out plot. Subversion isn’t inherently a good thing and doesn’t make for a competent twist/story in itself. Simply pulling the rug and saying “everything you thought you knew is a lie” is ill-conceived and the embodiment of laziness. Literally anyone can do that without making sure it flows organically between character and plot. As Nathan-Turner was a new producer and a restructure of the Drama Department meant that MacDonald would not be able to offer the direct support that had been available to previous producers, the latter appointed Barry Letts to return to the series as Executive Producer and oversee Nathan-Turner's initial season working on the series. Letts had, in fact, been offering unofficial advice and comment to Graham Williams for some time beforehand.

It’s a novel that introduces and expands a lot of material pertaining to the Doctor’s life and Time Lord history in general – layering Gallifrey with further detail and mystique. For those unfamiliar, I’ll swiftly rundown the core elements. The Other is one of the founding fathers of Time Lord society – along with the more familiar Rassilon and Omega. The Other had a – if you pardon the pun – hand in creating the Hand of Omega. The stellar manipulator that helped Gallifrey gain access to time travel. Due partly to budget restrictions at the BBC, the expected 2012 series, Smith's third, was split into 5 episodes transmitted from September 2012 and a further 8 transmitted from April 2013, with the now traditional Christmas special between these 2 groups of episodes. Gillan and Darvill departed from the show at the end of the first group of episodes; new companion Clara Oswald debuted in the 2012 Christmas special, played by Jenna Coleman.Howe, David J; Stammers, Mark & Walker, Stephen James (1993). Doctor Who: The Sixties (2nd ed.). London: Virgin Publishing. ISBN 978-0-86369-707-4. By all means, make the next Doctor a person of colour, but you need to do better than a pointless, continuity-breaking twist like the one I had the misfortune of witnessing. Chris Chibnall could also do better in the representation department, by, you know, giving his POC companions something called a personality.