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Speaking with NME about his second solo album, Sweet Illusions, it seems like Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who, The Devil's Hour) wasn't expecting to be hit with a question about his role in the upcoming season. [Looking around at no one] "Are we allowed to say anything about that? I'm at an age now where every time[...]

This has been the case with every Doctor and Companion for every year the series has been on the air, whether it was David Tennant, Matt Smith, or Peter Capaldi That's why Davies is still optimistic that Gatwa will return for a third season, and Gatwa cannot say whether he's in the third season yet[...]

That's living the dream, just as Peter Capaldi did two regenerations later A fan since childhood who grew up on both Tom Baker and Peter Davison, then getting to become the Doctor, Tennant first got to meet Davison in "Timecrash," the first modern-era Doctor crossover episode that Steven Moffat wrote for the Children in Need[...]

The 13th Doctor (Peter Capaldi) defied the Time Lords like God, defying his own kingdom since he's the President to play God and bring Clara (Jenna Coleman) back from the dead, only to lose her. But before that, he's accused of abandoning his kingdom, and Rassillon attempts to usurp him Rassilon is banished for his sin[...]

In Moffat's final story as showrunner, "Twice Upon a Time," the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) visits the ruins of Villengard to visit Rusty, the (sort of) reformed Dalek, who has taken over Villengard and uses it as a trap and hunting ground to kill any Daleks that come hunting for Rusty. Image: BBC/Disney+ A Militarised Church of England In[...]

In Moffat's final story as showrunner, "Twice Upon a Time," the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) visits the ruins of Villengard to visit Rusty, the (sort of) reformed Dalek, who has taken over Villengard and uses it as a trap and hunting ground to kill any Daleks that come hunting for Rusty In this Christmas Special,[...]

In 2022 alone, he had two Who-adjacent TV series: he wrote two Inside Man for Netflix starring David Tennant (not as a Doctor) and Stanley Tucci, and executive produced with his partner Sue Virtue The Devil's Hour for Prime, a grimdark crime mystery starring Peter Capaldi as a serial murderer Both series are variations on[...]

When the series came back in 2005, the budget was larger, the production values slicker and the directors were a bit better at action, so the subsequent Doctors have all done their share of action, but it's still mostly running, jumping off high places, hanging from high places and pointing the sonic screwdriver at things[...]

This, in turn, leads to the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) meeting the dying Davros (Julian Beach) as older, sadder enemies who can commiserate as equals and even share a laugh That's three different writers over three different eras and three different Doctors discovering an unplanned thematic arc. The best face-off illuminates not just their relationship but[...]

Davies brought in doubled down on the knowing comedy in the historical stories, which Steven Moffat was more than happy to lean even deeper into, like Clara (Jenna Colman) fangirling over meeting Robin Hood or the Twelfth Doctor's (Peter Capaldi) funny and true lament about Jesus being whitewashed by the history books. And guess what? Doctor Who[...]

The production had a larger standing set for the TARDIS, so the interior got bigger; the Ninth and Tenth Doctors (Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant) got a semi-organic coral design that was otherwise no-nonsense and practical. Then it changed into a cozier, almost homey design for the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) and a darker, more steampunk design for[...]

Steven Moffat made sure the script of "The Day of the Doctor", the 50th Anniversary event, would make a crossover matter, tackling not just continuity lore (and also restoring Gallifrey before Chris Chibnall blew it all up again later), and even finding a way to give every known Doctor and incoming new Doctor Peter Capaldi a[...]

Peter Capaldi, as an OG fan of the show, requested that the Cybermen the Twelfth Doctor fought in his final story be modeled on the original Mondasian Cybermen, who were introduced back in the 1960s in the First Doctor's (William Hartnell) final adventure "The Tenth Planet." Back then, the costumes were just white cloth masks[...]

 The Twelfth Doctor's second sonic screwdriver is one of the least talked about and possibly the rarest of the toys because it only lasted one season, namely Peter Capaldi's third and last season The Thirteenth Doctor's (Jodie Whittaker) sonic is the most criticized and least liked amongst hardcore fans though kids still like it since[...]

Remember when Doctor Who at the Proms was a thing? The BBC Proms is a big deal every year, an annual concert festival celebrating Classical Music at the Royal Albert Hall in London is a unique institution of British life, and Doctor Who was a part of it for a while. A Life Told in Music As[...]

Michael Wisher gave the character an epic, Shakespearean dimension in his portrayal as the first actor to play Davros. "Doctor Who": BBC In "The Magician's Apprentice," Steven Moffat writes about an older, dying Davros having a heart-to-heart with the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) as two old enemies are different sides of the same coin who understand each[...]

For this go-around, Peter Capaldi had some kind words to share about how David Tennant (Tenth Doctor) & Matt Smith (Eleventh Doctor) made themselves available to him as he began his run as the Twelfth Doctor In addition, Capaldi shares the great first impressions he got after meeting Gatwa and the high hopes he has[...]

Criminal Record is a new British crime thriller starring Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo as detectives in a tug-of-war over a high-profile murder case The series will make its global debut on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes on Friday, January 12, 2024, followed by new episodes every Friday through February 23. "Criminal Record" still:[...]

The BBC has released a compilation video of Doctor Who Series 8, Peter Capaldi's first and Steven Moffat's fourth, and the most experimental and flawed of Moffat's time as showrunner This was the first time the series broke the modern era's mode of casting a younger Doctor and back to the tradition of an older,[...]

That's Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, Jodie Whittaker – and back to Tennent again You might think this was just another showy set of clips of the show's biggest gimmick, but they reveal something much deeper about the show, something spiritual and beautiful that makes it all worthwhile. Image: BBC Screencaps Regeneration was a[...]

it takes a while for Doom to realise this is the Doctor, specifically Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor, but not the right Doctor she needs to find either, so she's off again The next, climactic chapter is the full-cast Big Finish audio drama Doctor Who: Doom's Day – Dying Hours. Doctor Who: Four from Doom's Day again[...]

Turns out their missions are linked: Doom has been hired to kill the thieves and killers out to steal and use a jewel that could power a planet-killing weapon, and Missy is on her reluctant redemption tour, tasked by the Twelfth Doctor (played by Peter Capaldi in the TV series and taking place during his[...]

Where the previous showrunners were happy to play up Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, and Peter Capaldi as sexy and sexual characters, Jodie Whittaker had been playing her as Ace all along, ever since her first season before the romance began Asexuality means having no sexual desire at all but does not preclude feeling[...]

This was Steven Moffat's fifth season as showrunner and Peter Capaldi's second as The Doctor it's also Moffat's best and most thematically consistent season. "Doctor Who Series 9" key art, BBC Unlike Doctor Who Series 6, Moffat's second season as showrunner, and Matt Smith's second season as The Doctor, Series 9 feels more confident and less frantic[...]

The Eleventh Doctor  (Matt Smith) loses Amy (Karen Gillen) and Rory (Arthur Darville) to literally the past, never to see them again, with Amy leaving a note imploring him not to forget her.  The Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) making his saddest, most impassioned speech about war shows he's become the living memorial for all the[...]

Doom meets The Doctor in the first hour, with hints that it might be Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor based on the description She might be meeting several other Doctors in the next chapters. Doctor Who's Tradition of Satirical British SciFi Goss effortlessly establishes the mood of slightly derivative, whimsical British Science Fiction with some social satire that[...]

Sometimes it was a surrogate father-daughter love story like with the Second Doctor and Victoria and the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and Bill Potts (Pearl Mackie) That central relationship was what got audiences emotionally invested in the show for sixty years The old show held that at arms' length because, in the old days, directly[...]

Doctor Who stories set in the future tend to be about class conflict, the evils of capitalism & fascism - part of British Sci-Fi tradition.

The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) endlessly punches away at the wall of diamond that's a metaphor for grief until he breaks through to the other side Grief can feel endless, and for the Doctor, it takes him over four million years to get through it It's also one of Capaldi's many acting triumphs on the show. Bad[...]

There's the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi), the first Rock & Roll, Midlife Crisis Doctor of the modern era, talking about The Bootstrap Paradox ("Google it!") and… how a time traveler might go back to the 18th Century to meet Beethoven, only to be shocked to discover Beethoven doesn't exist, so he has to invent Beethoven[...]