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By the time Steven Moffat got to work with Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor, he gave him probably more speeches than any other Doctor ever got The Doctor under Moffat got a lot of barnstorming speeches, and in Capaldi's first series, he gets his first here in "Flatline" where he finds his role as[...]

"The Time of the Doctor" sees the aging, dying Doctor playing a kindly Scrooge character defending a town called Trenzalore that lives in perpetual Christmas in his final adventure before he regenerates into the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi). "Last Christmas", BBC "Last Christmas" draws on Alien, A Miracle on 34th Street in the ambiguity of whether Santa[...]

There's the Eleventh Doctor's (Peter Capaldi) parting from Clara (Jenna Coleman) at the end of their mutually destructive co-dependent relationship, where Moffat explored how flawed a Doctor-Companion relationship could get that was also an allegory for an older man's affair with a younger woman, which was interesting but odd for a show aimed primarily at[...]

The Devil's Hour, the new BBC-Amazon Studios series starring Peter Capaldi as a mysterious Hannibal Lector-like killer and Jessica Raine as a social worker who becomes his Clarice Starling, has been renewed for two more seasons Amazon Prime Video has confirmed that The Devil's Hour will return for two more seasons on the platform The[...]

As a new year brings fresh dangers, can Taylor and their friends discover the secrets of Bishop Grave's past… before that past discovers them?" Voicing the new generation of sleuthing students are Bethany Antonia (Nolly, Stay Close, Get Even), Jacob Dudman (who has voiced impressions of various Doctors, including Matt Smith's and Peter Capaldi's on Big Finish's Doctor Who audiobooks), and newcomer Aitch[...]

The question is, should they? "Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time" image: BBC America The Twelfth Doctor's Run on Doctor Who is Complete Peter Capaldi was asked recently if he would like to come back for an occasional special story or team-up He said no; he felt he'd done his time Best not to repeat things that he'd already[...]

Speaking with SFX Magazine earlier this month, 12th Doctor Peter Capaldi expressed his concerns that having too many Doctors dilutes the importance of each individual Doctor appearing in a special episode of the BBC's Doctor Who (in this case, the upcoming 60th-anniversary special event) "It's very hard to imagine how you'd get a decent crack[...]

Emotions are everything, not convoluted world-building with nonsense made-up names. So the 1996 Doctor Who series died so the current version of the show could happen, giving us the Christoper Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, John Hurt, Peter Capaldi and Jodie Whittaker Doctors, the new companions, the Weeping Angels, and the seminal new stories We should[...]

But if anyone's expecting Peter Capaldi to make a return? Well, it sounds like you can stop waiting because it's not going to happen Speaking with SFX Magazine, Capaldi expressed his concerns that having too many Doctors dilutes the importance of each individual Doctor "It's very hard to imagine how you'd get a decent crack[...]

Wait – doesn't this look more like a stealth Doctor Who story? Have you ever wondered what it would look like if Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor cosplayed as Hannibal Lecter? Well, wonder no more. "The Devil's Hour" key art from Prime Video The Devil's Hour features Jessica Raine as Lucy, a tormented woman – for every main[...]

Davies' first season, written by Robert Shearman, slaughtering a whole army, the 11th Doctor (Peter Capaldi), Missy (Michelle Gomez) and Clara (Jenna Coleman) in the craftiest fake-out and stand-off against the whole Dalek army from Steven Moffat's run, and Rory's (Arthur Darvill) narrow escape from an awakening army of Daleks… which isn't really any extermination[...]

His final story, "Twice Upon a Time," with the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and the First Doctor (David Bradley), also offered his final meditation on the nature of the Doctor and the ability to regenerate and live multiple lifetimes in the finest Buddhist parable ever seen on television. The first crossover in the new era was[...]

We can now add Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi's name to that ever-growing list, praising not only Ncuti's casting but also the "great story" he brings to the conversation "What a great story – a little boy whose family escaped from the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and at age two, finds refuge in Scotland, where he[...]

Former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has two more new shows in the works, reuniting him with former doctors David Tennant and Peter Capaldi One is Inside Man, an upcoming BBC crime thriller with Tennant, Stanley Tucci, Lydia West, and Dolly Wells The other is The Devil's Hour, a thriller starring Capaldi. Image: BBC/BBC America The BBC[...]

It's showrunner Steven Moffat and the Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi's penultimate season, and companion Jenna Coleman's final season The video reveals that the season featured some of the show's finest Science Fiction stories and revealed Moffat's grandest themes in the show. "Doctor Who Series 9" image: BBC By his second season, Capaldi was starting to settle into[...]

And now, a supercut of Season 8 of Doctor Who, the Twelfth Doctor's (Peter Capaldi) first season New Doctor, new feel, new season-long theme, and arc That's the beauty of Doctor Who – the basic premise of the show remains the same, but each new Doctor and cast let the showrunner make a completely new[...]

This week, it's a supercut of the 10th series of the new show, the Twelfth Doctor's (Peter Capaldi) final series. Image: BBC This was the Twelfth Doctor's best season, a "return to basics" approach that showrunner Steven Moffat took after the convoluted and flawed previous two series Season 8, was a failed experiment where Moffat made the[...]

Iberti and director David Nutter, who has directed many episodes of The X-Files and Game of Thrones. Of course, Moffat had previously lifted liberally from the nonlinear love story of The Time Traveler's Wife during his time on Doctor Who, starting with his episode "The Girl in the Fireplace" and then with River Song's (Alex Kingston)[...]

All her T-shirts had a rainbow on it, and that's not an accident. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjDSQbspRLU Whittaker's Doctor feels like we barely know her because there were never any stories or key moments that truly revealed her core the way Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, even John Hurt, and Peter Capaldi's Doctors did[...]

The beauty of Doctor Who is it's a flexible enough format to do any genre, and "The Husbands of River Song" lets Moffat indulge his jones for romantic and screwball comedy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQWuxdQbVaIVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Husbands of River Song: Highlights | Doctor Who (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQWuxdQbVaI) The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) finds himself in a[...]

"Last Christmas" is Moffat's first Christmas special featuring the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) and might be his best. "Doctor Who: Last Christmas" key art, BBC Doctor Who: Last Christmas is the other 20-minute compilation video the BBC released on their YouTube channel in the run-up to Christmas That's better than the new clip videos still trying to[...]

In this case, the spotlight shines on The 12th Doctor Peter Capaldi In case you hadn't heard, Capaldi is releasing his first solo album, St Christopher, so to help promote it he took part in a one-on-one with The Guardian to discuss his life, career & musical influences Of course, the man who had the[...]

There's the 12th Doctor (Peter Capaldi) insisting on a dick-swinging contest with Robin Hood in the middle of a legendary chapter in the legend of Robin Hood There's the 11th Doctor turning the question of whether or not to kill Hitler into slapstick farce There's the 13th Doctor posing as a witch hunter and having[...]

Moffat tried to make Clara a character after the Impossible Girl arc ended by giving her a life as a schoolteacher and her doomed relationship with Danny Pink (Samuel Anderson) but it never really felt real, like a series of TV drama tropes tacked on to Doctor Who. Then in her final season – and the[...]

And Peter Capaldi's Thinker contains such multitudes, jumping from a man of serious scientific research to hedonism to utter self-survival, that it's easy to see him as one who has equivocated away any morality to continue the legacy of the Nazis in Corto Maltese into the present day (and also, love that flashback) But, given[...]

As we wind closer to the release to the much-anticipated DCEU entry from James Gunn with The Suicide Squad, the director took to Instagram to show off a still featuring four of his stars featuring the Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior), The Thinker (Peter Capaldi), Bloodsport (Idris Elba), and Polka Dot Man (David Dashmalchian) "Squad Undercover[...]

HBO Max is the US home for all the episodes of the revived show from the 2005 episodes to the present, and its spinoffs Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Image: BBC What's odd here is that it focuses on the last three doctors: Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, and Jodie Whittaker No mention of Christopher Eccleston or[...]

And the Twelfth Doctor, as portrayed by Peter Capaldi, is set to join them too Time to check out the round things. Missy Meets The Third Doctor And The First Master In New Doctor Who Missy Meets The Third Doctor And The First Master In New Doctor Who Missy Meets The Third Doctor And The First Master In[...]

The 21st Century Doctors were even more modern archetypes: Christopher Eccleston was the Doctor as a no-nonsense Northerner; David Tennant was the sexy geek smart-aleck; Matt Smith as the geek with an old man's soul; Peter Capaldi as cranky woke granddad Think of the different archetypes and personality types there are out there for a[...]

With Monday "Dalek Day" and "Revolution of the Daleks" debuting in less than two weeks, Doctor Who looks back on the Doctor's sworn enemy.