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Set your clocks to the past, present and future. Doctor Who is back this weekend with the first full series starring Ncuti Gatwa in the lead role as beloved showrunner Russell T Davies returns to the helm. Doctor Who, the long-running TV series about an idiosyncratic alien dashing about time and space solving problems returns to screens with a new full-time cast.
Despite its over , the future has never looked brighter for the show as the creatives in-front and behind the camera have been regenerated. Here’s all the reasons we’re excited for the 14th season of Britain’s iconic sci-fi adventure show. In the past two years, Doctor Who produced a set of special episodes.
The first was to recognise the 100th anniversary of the BBC with another triple-header of episodes to coincide with the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who itself. While the BBC centenary special should have been cause for celebration, to the casual observer it represented a nadir for the show’s enduring popularity. ‘The Power of the Doctor’ was the final story in showrunner Chris Chibnall’s tenure of the show.
Chibnall had made the long-overdue decision to cast Jodie Whittaker as the first woman to play the titular character, and while that still stands as a landmark moment for a series that always championed representation within its stories, Whittaker’s time as the Doctor was beset by low-quality writing and poorly executed episodes. The viewership figures gave everything away. Whittaker’s first e.
