Doctor Who Review Jodie Whittaker?

Doctor Who Review Jodie Whittaker
This article is about the main character of the Doctor Who television series. For the Doctor as portrayed in the 1960s Dalek films, see Dr. Who (Dalek films),

The Doctor
Doctor Who character
The Doctor as portrayed by the series leads in chronological order, left to right from top row.
First appearance	An Unearthly Child (1963)
Created by	Sydney Newman
Portrayed by	Series leads William Hartnell (1963–1966) Patrick Troughton (1966–1969) Jon Pertwee (1970–1974) Tom Baker (1974–1981) Peter Davison (1982–1984) Colin Baker (1984–1986) Sylvester McCoy (1987–1989) Paul McGann (1996) Christopher Eccleston (2005) David Tennant (2005–2010, forthcoming 2023) Matt Smith (2010–2013) Peter Capaldi (2014–2017) Jodie Whittaker (2018–2022) Ncuti Gatwa (forthcoming 2023) Others Richard Hurndall (1983) Michael Jayston (1986) John Hurt (2013) David Bradley (2017, 2022) Jo Martin (2020–2022) Other actors
Character biography
Species	Gallifreyan
Spouse	River Song
Children	Jenny
Relatives	Susan Foreman (granddaughter) Amelia Pond (mother-in-law) Rory Williams (father-in-law)
Home planet	Gallifrey
Main incarnations	First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth Eleventh Twelfth Thirteenth Fourteenth Fifteenth
Other incarnations	Fugitive Doctor Valeyard War Doctor

The Doctor is the title character in the long-running BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who, Since the show’s inception in 1963, the character has been portrayed by thirteen lead actors. In the programme, “the Doctor” is the alias assumed by a millennia-old humanoid alien, a Time Lord who travels through space and time in the TARDIS, frequently with companions,

The transition to each succeeding actor is explained within the show’s narrative through the plot device of ” regeneration “, a biological function of the Time Lord race that allows a change of cellular structure and appearance with recovery following a fatal injury. A number of other actors have played the character in stage and audio plays, as well as in various film and television productions.

The Doctor has been well received by the public, with an enduring popularity leading The Daily Telegraph to dub the character “Britain’s favourite alien”, while abroad the character has come to be seen as a British cultural icon. The Doctor has also been featured in films and a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips.

Currently, David Tennant portrays the Fourteenth Doctor, succeeding Jodie Whittaker at the end of ” The Power of the Doctor ” (2022). Tennant previously played the Tenth Doctor between 2005 and 2010, with his current tenure marking the first time an actor has returned to the role as a new incarnation.

He will feature in three specials celebrating Doctor Who’ s 60th anniversary in 2023 before Ncuti Gatwa takes over as the Fifteenth Doctor in 2024.

Is Jodie Whittaker any good as Dr Who?

Jodie Whitaker was perfectly fine as the Doctor! Very Doctor-y. Handled the super-fast Doctor-isms just as well as any other actor that has played the Doctor. She’s going to be great in the role.

Who will replace Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor?

“I just think it’s the most exciting casting.” The Doctor (JODIE WHITTAKER) You could fill a TARDIS with the things which famously ebullient Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker thinks are “brilliant.” But, when EW recently caught up with the actress in London, Whittaker was particularly excited about the choice of Ncuti Gatwa as her replacement on the time travel show.

Gatwa was cast by Russell T. Davies, who successfully revived Doctor Who in 2005 and is now returning to replace the current showrunner Chris Chibnall. Whittaker’s version of the Doctor will “regenerate” into Gatwa’s iteration at the end of the feature-length Doctor Who adventure “The Power of the Doctor,” which premieres Oct.23 on BBC America,

“I just think it’s the most exciting casting,” Whittaker said of Gatwa, whose credits include the TV show Sex Education and the upcoming Barbie movie. “For us to finish, and the baton going not only to Russell but to him, what a thing for us. Because no matter where this goes, he’s going to bring on such a huge fandom that won’t have seen Doctor Who,

So they’ll potentially look back at the history and it’ll be us, and we’re a part of that now, and part of the canon, which is really exciting.” Jodie Whittaker attends the World premiere of Doctor Who at the Curzon Bloomsbury in London.
Picture date: Tuesday October 11, 2022.; Ncuti Gatwa poses for a photograph in the winners room during the BAFTA Cymru Awards 2022 at St David’s Hall on October 9, 2022 in Cardiff, Wales.

(Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images) ‘Doctor Who’ star Jodie Whittaker is WhatsApping replacement Ncuti Gatwa ‘loads’ | Credit: Ian West/PA Images via Getty Images; Matthew Horwood/Getty Images Executive producer Davies called Whittaker to tell her about the casting of Gatwa shortly before the news was announced in May.

I was waddling around, because I was very pregnant, and my phone rang, and it was Russell,” says Whittaker.
He was like, ‘Hello, darling, so, I’ve got some news.’ I was like, ‘ Oh my god! ‘ So, immediately, I was like, please can I have number? He was like, ‘Of course you can.’ I think I then rang him about ten times, but because he’s the busiest actor in the land, he was on the set of something else.

He was really sweet and texted and said, ‘I’ll ring you as soon as I wrap.’ I ended up speaking to him, and he’s so lovely, and now unfortunately gets loads of Whattsaps from me.” The cast of “The Power of the Doctor” also includes Mandip Gill, John Bishop, Sacha Dhawan, Sophie Aldred, and Janet Fielding.

What are the ratings for the new Doctor Who?

The average Thirteenth Doctor was watched by 4.67m viewers, up 0.12m (2.6%) on the 4.55m average of the Twelfth Doctor. It’s median viewing figure of 4.21m, meanwhile, is 0.34m (7.4%) lower than Capaldi’s, representing the boost Whittaker’s average is given by the large audiences for her first series.

How bad is Doctor Who now?

Published Sun, 10 Apr 2022 07:38:12 -0500 | Last updated Sun, 10 Apr 2022 13:52:32 -0500 | It’s pretty much agreed amongst fans that Doctor Who under Chris Chibnall ‘s tenure as showrunner has not been anywhere as good as his predecessors Russell T. Davies and Steven Moffat,

Not many people have been able to put their finger on exactly what was wrong.
Sexists, racists, and homophobes have blamed it on the casting of Jodie Whittaker as a female Doctor, more characters of colour in the main cast, more LGBTQ characters, and too much “woke”.
We would argue that the problem with the show is that it’s not “woke” enough.

In fact, it’s a lot less “woke” than it was under Davies and Moffat, and that’s the problem all along. It really should be more “woke”. Doctor Who Review Jodie Whittaker Doctor Who, Image: BBC The problem with Chibnall’s Doctor Who is that he transformed the Doctor into a Conservative, This had been on our minds for quite a while but it was fan video commentator Tharries who beat us to pointing it out on his YouTube channel. He deserves the credit for being the first to say all this out loud. ▶ ” allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; fullscreen;” loading=”lazy” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/nhLtmEuUOyA?feature=oembed” title=”Youtube Video”> The Moral Failures of the 13th Doctor Tharries points out that Chibnall’s Doctor was one who defeated individual bad apples but left horrible political, social, and economic systems in place to carry on getting away with the terrible things they do. In “Rosa”, the Doctor defeats a racist from the future by stopping Rosa Parks from being discriminated against to prevent the American Civil Rights movement from taking off, rather than attacking the actual fabric of racism that permeated American society at the time. The worst example is in “Kerblam” where the Doctor goes after an activist-turned-terrorist out to bomb the customers of an Amazon-like business because it treats its employees like crap. It’s a common neoliberal, pro-capitalist tactic to paint activists and protesters as murderous terrorists in order to render their valid arguments against Capitalist practices invalid. The same tactic was used to smear the Occupy Wall Street protesters in Christopher Nolan ‘s The Dark Knight Rises back in 2012. Meanwhile, the Doctor leaves the AI running the business intact even after it murdered at least one innocent employee to punish the protester. In the past, the Doctor would have wiped out the computer system for committing murder. This was one of the worst moral failures the Doctor has ever committed in the history of the show. At the very least, she should have cancelled her Amazon – sorry, Kerblam account. But she didn’t even do that. In “Orphan 55”, a seemingly typical episode that pushes an environmentalist message, the Doctors calls on individuals to prevent a catastrophic future without ever calling out the governments and corporations that cause the greatest environmental problems. Again, the Doctor puts the responsibility on individuals who don’t have as much power as the system that the Doctor tacitly supports by leaving them standing. Tharries says as much in his video. This carries over into “Flux”, Chibnall’s worst season, the worst-written, mired in sloppy, lazy writing where long speeches full of gobbledygook exposition showed all the weak points of the show and Chibnall’s writing on a technical level. However, the moral laziness persisted in the Doctor’s failure to question the brutal system she was working for as a part of, even though she ran from it in the past rather than openly oppose it or bring it down. She does nothing to refute or oppose Tecteun, the adopted mother who exploited and abused her. The undoing of the destruction of the universe feels weak and incomplete by the end. Incomplete and unsatisfying defines Chibnall’s era of Doctor Who, A Doctor for the Brexit Era is Miserable The Doctor of past eras was always an anti-establishment figure, contemptuous of authority who believed trust had to be earned. They frequently brought down entire regimes and governments for being unfair and exploitative. The monsters and killer robots of those stories were usually extensions of the regimes’ evil, so they defeated them and then the whole regime. That has always been the central appeal of the Doctor: the hero who brought change. Chibnall’s Doctor did not bring change at all but maintained the awful status quo. This Doctor is oddly passive, doing only the minimal, saving the world but leaving its badness in place. You could say this is a Doctor for the Brexit era: morally lazy, tired, passive, doing the minimum to keep up appearances. It’s unfortunate that Chibnall turned Jodie Whittaker into the embodiment of that. Disappointed and angry fans detected that but ended up blaming her for the show’s failings. It’s not Whittaker’s fault. She can only be as good as the scripts she’s given. She tried to play the Doctor she was meant to be, a joyous, irreverent, maternal Northerner given to extravagant fun. She’s most similar to Peter Davison’s Doctor in that she wasn’t an authority figure, less given to suddenly commanding a room through sheer force of will like every other Doctor. The problem is, the scripts never let her go far enough, never let her push things over the edge to make her a truly formidable Doctor. Hers became the morally weakest Doctor under Chibnall. This is why there’s so much hope invested in the return of Russell T. Davies as showrunner, the hope that he would bring back the moral authority of the Doctor, a Doctor who’s willing to destroy entire corrupt governments, corporations, systems so that something better can replace it. Enjoyed this? Please share on social media! Stay up-to-date and support the site by following Bleeding Cool on Google News today!

Will David Tennant be the 14th Doctor?

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The Doctor

The Fourteenth Doctor
Doctor Who character
David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor
Introduced by	Russell T Davies
Portrayed by	David Tennant
Preceded by	Jodie Whittaker
Succeeded by	Ncuti Gatwa
Information
Companions	Donna Noble
Chronology
Previous version	Thirteenth Doctor
Next version	Fifteenth Doctor

The Fourteenth Doctor is the current incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, He is portrayed by Scottish actor David Tennant, who previously portrayed the Tenth Doctor and was last seen in the programme in that role in 2013.

Within the series’ narrative, the Doctor is a millennia-old, alien Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, with somewhat unknown origins, who travels in time and space in the TARDIS, frequently with companions,
At the end of each incarnation’s life, the Doctor regenerates ; as a result, the physical appearance and aspects of the personality of the Doctor changes.

Ncuti Gatwa had previously been announced as Jodie Whittaker ‘s successor as the programme’s lead, and many reports stated he would play the Fourteenth Doctor and that Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor would regenerate into an incarnation portrayed by Gatwa.

Upon Whittaker’s final appearance as the character, she instead regenerated into a form similar to that of the Tenth Doctor. This character was confirmed to be the Fourteenth Doctor, with later clarification that Gatwa would actually portray the Fifteenth Doctor following the 60th anniversary specials in November 2023.

The Fourteenth Doctor is set to appear in special episodes in 2023, executive produced by Russell T Davies, who also returns to the series having executive produced the show from 2005 to 2010.

Is Doctor Who declining?

The Doctor Who New Year’s Day special suffered its worst ratings since the show was rebooted 17 years ago. The episode – which starred current Time Lord Jodie Whittaker – pulled in just 3.4million viewers compared to 9million in 2018, it has been revealed.

It comes as Russell T Davies is returning as the Doctor Who showrunner in a bid to save the show amid falling ratings – 12 years after he stepped away from the series.
Oh no: The Doctor Who New Year’s Day special suffered its worst ratings since the show was rebooted 17 years ago The special – called Eve Of The Daleks – saw the Doctor become stuck in a terrifying ‘time loop’ where she repeatedly died and came back to life.

The latest figure is for those who watched live on the day. Final ratings, including viewers on catch-up or recordings, will be released next week. A source told The Sun : ‘Jodie’s legacy is leaving behind viewing figures that are among the worst in the show’s long history.

‘Although far more people watch programmes on catch-up, this still doesn’t make up for the decline in viewers since 2018. Change: The episode pulled in just 3.4million viewers compared to 9million in 2018, it has been revealed ‘Plus, the BBC always saw Doctor Who as the kind of show that was ‘event TV’, bringing the whole family together at the same time.

But that doesn’t seem to be happening.’ A BBC spokesperson said: ‘Doctor Who is one of the most popular shows on BBC iPlayer and has been streamed 50 million times in the past year, with 7 million streams so far for the latest series, as audiences increasingly value the option to choose when and where they watch it.’ It was reported last year that there has been a steady fall in Doctor Who viewership, which has been declining for five years.

It was said that Jodie and showrunner Chris had attracted just half the audience during their paring compared to what the Russell-led, David Tennant-fronted version of the show did. Exciting! It comes as Russell T Davies is returning as the Doctor Who showrunner in a bid to save the show amid falling ratings – 12 years after he stepped away from the series The Telegraph reported at the beginning of the year that episodes were drawing in fewer than 5million viewers.

The paper added that such numbers are ‘not dissimilar to when the show was axed in 1989’. In comparison, more than 10million viewers watched David Tennant’s Doctor Who finale in 2010, according to The Guardian, However, episode Can You Hear Me? saw just 3.81 million viewers tuning in on the over-night ratings, which – according to website Cosmic Book News – was a 22% decrease since the first episode of Season 12, which aired ten months earlier.

And in figures released in March 2020, the same month the series ended, Doctor Who’s ratings slipped to its lowest since the show made a comeback in 2005.
The season finale of series 12 had a total TV audience of 4.6million, making it the lowest Doctor Who has ever had.
The previous all-time low was 4.7million in 2017.

Series 12 saw an average viewership of 5.4million. It comes after earlier this week Doctor Who producers hinted that the next Time Lord will be another woman. Rumours: It comes after earlier this week Doctor Who producers hinted that the next Time Lord will be another woman (pictured is current star Jodie) Production notes for the next series of the BBC ‘s sci-fi show suggest a female will be starring yet again as It’s A Sin’s Lydia West is widely tipped to take over, The Mirro r reports.

Current Time Lord Jodi e’s role comes to an end this autumn with a regeneration episode after she became the first ever female Doctor in 2017. Entertainment industry website Production Weekly lists the new episodes as: ‘A fantasy action saga of a mysterious alien time-traveller, Doctor Who, who picks up human companions, faces evil foes with little more than her wits and a sonic screwdriver and journeys throughout time and space in a police phone booth called the TARDIS.’ Jodie herself recently called for another female doctor to take over the role.

She told Radio 1’s Vick Hope and Jordan North: ‘If we had the power to choose I’m going to pick an actress who I think is really exciting and I think would be phenomenal, an actress called Lydia West. If I had the power!’ Lydia is bookmaker Coral’s favourite to replace Jodie at 3-1 odds, while Fisayo Akinade and Omari Douglas (both 5-1) are joint second favourites and Olly Alexander comes next in the betting at 6-1.

Jodie also recently discussed her emotional last days of filming on Doctor Who.
Could it be you? Production notes for the next series of the BBC’s sci-fi show suggest a female will be starring yet again, claims The Mirror, as Lydia West (pictured) is tipped to take over The actress told Entertainment Weekly of how she was ‘grief ridden’ when she filmed the scenes.

She filmed the final scenes for the autumn episode at the end of 2021 and said of the experience: ‘I’ve shot my version of regen, and it was singularly the most emotional day on set I think I’ve ever had.’ Jodie has said previously that she is leaving the coveted role this year because she feels it needs ‘new energy’ but the star also confessed that she isn’t sure if she is making the correct decision.

Jodie then admitted to the publication that it felt strange to feel sad because she had made the decision to leave.
Iconic: Jodie has said previously that she is leaving the coveted role this year because she feels it needs ‘new energy’ She said: ‘It’s a really bizarre feeling, because it’s the best time I’ve ever had on a job, and I made the decision to leave it, so it’s a really strange thing to do to yourself.’ She went on: ‘It was a wonderfully-celebratory-slash-grief-ridden day that I could spend with the family that I’d made.

I suppose the best thing about it is that the episodes are still on. So until they’re off, I don’t have to really get my head around the fact that it’s not my part!’ Before the autumn episode airs, there will be a special episode in spring 2022 called Legend of the Sea Devils.

Who is the most popular Dr Who?

1. David Tennant (Tenth Doctor, 2005-2010) – Ushering in a Golden Age of Doctor Who, David Tennant takes the number one spot. Widely considered the most popular Doctor ever, Tennant brought a whole new audience to the already beloved show. His pinstripe-suited-Converse-wearing Doctor combined all the elements of the Doctor we’d seen before in the best way to create a perfect balance between zany and serious.

Plus, it didn’t hurt that in his five years in the role the show had some of the best episodes and characters ever, including Blink, The Impossible Planet and countless others. Plus, his almost romance with Rose added a depth to the character which we hadn’t seen before. And now David Tennant is back with Catherine Tate as the 14th Doctor and Donna Noble! The iconic duo are returning for the 60th-anniversary specials, and we can’t wait to find out what on earth is going on.

Ultimately, for most of us, it is whichever Doctor we grew up with that holds a special place in our hearts as the “best” Doctor. So who is your pick? Special shout out to John Hurt as The War Doctor who appeared for the 50th anniversary episode as a version of the Doctor who travelled between series eight and series 9, still trying to save Gallifrey during The Time War.

Which Doctor Who has the highest ratings?

Time Lords ranked: The best Doctor Who according to the stats As Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker prepares to hand over the keys of the Tardis to Ncuti Gatwa the time has come to assess the performance of all the previous Time Lords. Sex Education star Gatwa will become the 14th actor to play the iconic role, and the sixth since writer Russell T Davies brought the sci-fi series back to life in 2005.

He will join an illustrious list of actors who have all brought something new to the role, from William Hartnell, the original Doctor who first travelled through time in 1963, to the latest incumbent Whittaker, who will bring her time on the Tardis to a close with a special due to air later this year.

So who has been the best Doctor? All fans of the show have their own favourite, with most choosing the actor who played the role during their peak childhood years – and you can make your own choice using our interactive gadget below. Doctor Who Review Jodie Whittaker Doctor Who rankings (Image: Marianna Longo) But an alternative assessment can be made by analysing audience ratings of individual shows on IMDb, starring each Doctor. Although that assessment can be skewed by the quality of the writing, the supporting characters, and the plot of each episode, it still provides a good indication of the actor who has enjoyed the most popular run.

So, using median audience scores for each Doctor, we can reveal that the best Who is David Tennant. His performance as the 10th Doctor between 2005 and 2010, is described by the BBC as “excitable, enthusiastic and victorious”. And it seems viewers agree. Episodes starring Tennant as the Time Lord scored a median rating of 7.90 from fans voting on IMDb.

That is just slightly higher than Peter Capaldi, whose run as the 12th doctor hit a median score of 7.85. Matt Smith, the 11th doctor was third with a score of 7.80. Tom Baker – who played the Doctor for seven seasons between 1974 and 1981, the longest any actor has played the role – was the highest-ranking Doctor from the show’s original series, which ran from 1963 to 1989. Doctor Who Review Jodie Whittaker Top 10 episodes (Image: Marianna Longo) But while Tom Baker’s time in the Tardis brought the show’s highest viewing figures, only a handful of viewers have logged onto IMDb to rate his episodes of the show. In fact, an average of fewer than 100 IMDb users have rated Doctor Who episodes featuring any of the “classic” Doctors.

By contrast, around 5,000 viewers logged onto IMDb to rate each episode of Jodi Whittaker’s run in the show. Meanwhile, IMDb ratings have revealed the single highest rated episode from a total of almost 900. According to TV and movie database, the top-rated Doctor Who episode is Blink, which featured David Tennant trapped in 1969 and locked in a battle to defeat the Weeping Angels.

Blink, which first aired in 2007, scored an almost perfect score of 9.8 with fans. That episode is followed by Heaven Sent from 2015, which starred Peter Capaldi, and Forest of the Dead from 2008 (Tennant). Why not choose your favourite Doctor using the interactive gadget below? : Time Lords ranked: The best Doctor Who according to the stats

Why is Doctor Who a girl now?

How the first female Time Lord changed Doctor Who forever I n 2018, a blond-haired, two-hearted woman crashed through the roof of a Sheffield train and on to our screens, propelling into a new era. Reinvention has been key to the success of the show, which first aired almost 60 years ago.

Despite being long overdue, having a woman in the role was not a radical idea – it had been considered multiple times. Tom Baker thought a woman could take over from him after his tenure as the Time Lord ended in 1981. The show’s creator, Sydney Newman, suggested in the 80s that, if the show were to continue, the Doctor should change gender.

Joanna Lumley even portrayed a female incarnation of the Doctor in a 1999 Comic Relief sketch. But it took more than 50 years before the famous character was finally played by a woman full-time. This week, Jodie Whittaker will regenerate, leaving 31 episodes and a new generation of Who fans in her wake, and the sonic screwdriver will pass to Ncuti Gatwa, the first full-time black Doctor.

Joanna Lumley plays the Doctor in this Comic Relief sketch from 1999, written by Steven Moffat. After 12 male actors, it was a huge deal when Whittaker became the Doctor. There was, inevitably, a backlash. Change can be scary for those who are used to seeing something that has always embodied their own lives.

But the negativity doesn’t compare with the positives that have come from diversification. “As much as I have loved Doctor Who my whole life,” says the writer Juno Dawson, “there was a subliminal message running across the first 50 years: men are the central character and women are the ‘assistant’, ‘companion’. Ncuti Gatwa, who is to take over from Jodie Whittaker, will be the first black man to play the Time Lord full-time in Doctor Who. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian Dawson went on to write for the 13th Doctor in, a female-led spin-off series featuring trans and queer characters.

“When I wrote for the 13th Doctor, I never once considered her gender. Fundamentally, she is everything her predecessors were and that’s what makes her such a bold character,” she says. Evidence suggests that casting people from diverse backgrounds can improve our mental health. According to the psychologist Dr Sophie Mort, whose work focuses on how our society shapes mental health, not seeing yourself represented on-screen affects how you think about yourself and your aspirations.

“We learn about our identity, and how that identity is seen in the world, partly through the way people who share our identities are portrayed in the media. Historically, representation of women, black people, people of colour, LGBTQ+ people and people with disabilities has been less prolific, and people have often found themselves in stereotyped, supporting roles.” So what does it mean when shows such as Doctor Who increase diversity in front of and behind the camera? Mort says increased on-screen diversity will improve the self-esteem of those represented, and having behind-the-camera talent from communities being portrayed on-screen will ensure the authenticity of these narratives.

“This way, diverse narratives can be told, not just stereotyped,” says Mort. In 2018, for the first time in 35 years, Doctor Who featured an episode written and directed by women It is not just Whittaker’s casting that marked big changes for the show. Mandip Gill became the Doctor’s first full-time Asian companion, whose character Yaz was revealed to be in love with the Doctor during this year’s New Year special, Eve of the Daleks – the first queer relationship between the Doctor and a companion.

This resonated with fans all over the world. Helena Emmanuel, a Doctor Who fan based in the US, says: “When Yaz described that she hadn’t admitted her feelings towards the Doctor even to herself, it resonated with me. I had that exact moment with myself when I was first coming out, not too far from Yaz’s age, and hadn’t ever seen a coming out on TV that felt so similar to my own.” In 2020, Sacha Dhawan became the first British South Asian incarnation of the Doctor’s long-time enemy, the Master. In love with the Doctor Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan in Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks. Photograph: James Pardon/BBC In 2018, for the first time in 35 years, Doctor Who featured an episode, The Witchfinders, written and directed by women, Joy Wilkinson and Sallie Aprahamian respectively.

Until that point, this had only happened once in the show’s history, in 1983. Over the course of the 13th Doctor’s era, just over half the show’s writers and directors have been women. This has meant we have seen incredible moments showing how the male and female incarnations of the Doctor are treated, with the Doctor now on the receiving end of sexism across space and time.

She is the centre of each victory, rather than supporting from the sidelines. Whittaker’s debut series also marked the first time the show had black or Asian writers. Malorie Blackman tackled the story of Rosa Parks, and Vinay Patel penned an episode about the partition of India.

Mark Tonderai became Doctor Who’s first black director. Recent outings have introduced audiences to the lesser told stories of the real-life figures Mary Seacole and Noor Inayat Khan. The journalist David Chipakupaku feels proud of Doctor Who for finally taking steps to tell diverse stories. “It shocked me when I realised that Doctor Who had never hired a non-white writer until Malorie Blackman.

Even then, I had worries that there would be an attempt to sanitise Rosa Parks’ story. But when, less than five minutes in, companion Ryan (who is a young black man) was assaulted for daring to speak to a white woman, I knew nothing was off the table.” Doctor Who is on Sunday at 7.30pm.

Why is Dr Who so popular?

On November 23rd, 2013, the BBC is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who – its seminal science fiction TV series about an alien known as the Doctor who travels throughout all of time and space in his spaceship, the TARDIS, which looks remarkably like a 1960s-era British police box.

Once upon a time, Doctor Who was actually missing from TV. The show ran continuously from 1963, but was cancelled in 1989. There was an ill-fated attempt to revive the series in 1996 with a TV movie, but that, too failed. Like the Doctor himself, though, the show proved resilient, finally beginning anew in 2005.

The rebooted series has proved to be a remarkable success – it’s still going strong, and also managed to accomplish what the “classic” Doctor Who series never did – building a huge fanbase in America. It’s currently the number one show on BBC America, and its viewership is growing.

As I was driving in L.A.
Once, I saw a huge billboard of the Doctor shown from behind in silhouette, with just a small ‘Doctor Who’ written in the corner.
It’s a testatment to how aggressive the marketing for the rebooted show is that they expect audiences to know who the Doctor is.” Those words were spoken to me by Dr.

Piers Britton of the University of Redlands in California. Dr. Britton is a native of the U.K., and in addition to his usual courses in art history, he’s currently teaching a class on Doctor Who this semester in celebration of the 50th anniversary. He’s also written a book called TARDISbound, which examines the Doctor as he’s appeared in various media incarnations, including novels, TV, audiobooks, and comics.

And in that study, how does he explain the longevity of the character? “The character is helped because he can be played by a limitless number of actors.
The longevity of the character is assured because it thrives on the basis of character, even as popular culture changes.
That idea of change – being able to reinvent itself – is central to Doctor Who,” Dael Kingsmill, who has a video series on Greek Mythology on Felicia Day’s ‘Geek and Sundry’ YouTube channel, agrees with this assessment.

“Like The Doctor, the show is able to constantly reinvent itself and become the ultimate survivor. It’s not constrained by time, or genre, or even cast, so it never gets old, but at the same time, it manages to hold onto that quirky quality which we all know and love.” One of the reasons why Doctor Who has been so successful, and what differentiates it from more traditional sci-fi fare like Star Trek, is that the Doctor always travels with one or more companions.

There have been dozens of companions, but most of them are humans from the present time of the Doctor. “Part of the show’s appeal is that the Doctor travels with people that you might know,” Dr. Britton told me. “An access point through contemporary world is part of its appeal.” One interesting thing about the show, Dr.

Britton notes, is that the way the companion is used by the show changed remarkably after the 2005 resurrection. “In the Classic series, companions were there as audience surrogates. What we have now, though, are characters who are the driving element in the narrative.

We engage with because they’re fascinating in and of themselves.” Neil McNeil, who also has a video series on Geek and Sundry, also credits companions for the show’s longevity.
I think the series has gone on for so long because it’s a new take on the fairytale genre, something that people can picture themselves being a part of.

The show examines human existence while still bringing viewers to fantastic, faraway places they never could have imagined.” Another aspect of the show that may turn out to be a surprising aspect of its appeal to audiences is its quintessential British-ness.

All of us who grew up with Doctor Who are in some way influenced by it. It’s unavoidable. Doctor Who is part of the grain of British culture, and my world is better for it,” science fiction and comics writer Warren Ellis told me. Dr. Britton concurs with this idea. “Even we did science fiction, it never looked like Doctor Who.

That’s because it’s so strange and odd from the start. After we started to get American imports like Star Trek, for a long time the oddity tickled the British fancy. The eccentric English-ness of it is also part of its popularity.” That eccentricity extends to the Doctor himself, who Dr.

Britton describes as a “wonderfully enthusiastic amateur who’ll fix things in unforeseeable ways. Doctor Who is about someone who improvises at the spur of the moment in both funny and infuriating ways. And his child-like enthusiasm is matched by an adult cunning.” Perhaps the best way to explain the appeal of Doctor Who, though, comes from The Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson.

In a 2011 episode that featured a guest appearance by the actor currently playing the Doctor, Matt Smith, Ferguson wrote a song celebrating Doctor Who, in which he said that “It’s all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.” As a long-time fan of the show myself, I think that sums it up best.

Has Doctor Who gone downhill?

Doctor Who is the need of a defibrillator as the show continues to have one foot in the grave as its latest episode is the worst viewed in 31 years of its 57-year history. Sunday’s episode, “Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror,” was only watched by 4.04 million viewers in the UK.

We have to go way back to Season 23 of September 1986 to see a lesser amount of viewers as “The Mysterious Planet” Part Four only had 3.7 million viewers tuning in. Sunday’s episode of Doctor Who is also the eighth least-watched episode of the entire run which kicked off in 1963 and the lowest watched of the new series.

The numbers for Doctor Who have gone down consistently with each new episode as the series has lost near one million viewers since the debut episode for Season 12 on New Year’s Day. Reasons cited for the show’s continued demise include bad writing, poor acting, and its “woke” approach.

Fans at Rotten Tomatoes continue to slam the series as it only has a 13% Audience Score.
Words can not describe how bad this is.
So many years of great Dr.
Who and now we get this garbage,” stated one RT user.
Another long-time fan of the show chimed in: “The new Doctor Who is a big disappointment.
It’s missing all the charm and humor of the older versions.

It’s far too serious, there are too many ‘companions,’ the acting is middling, the direction is amateur, and the writing is nothing original. As someone who has been watching Doctor Who for 50 years, the latest Doctor is a major disappointment. Doctor Who should be FUN! This version is not.

Note: this is not Jodie Whitaker’s fault.
They aren’t giving her much to work with, although I’m not sure she could handle the comic moments of the previous series.” While true there is an uptick in DVR viewings, the viewership is still down compared to the more popular seasons featuring Matt Smith and David Tennant, and even Peter Capaldi (note: Wiki is including the 7-day viewership for Season 12; not the live viewership like it shows for the previous seasons which is inflating the Season 12 numbers compared to previous seasons).

Check out the Season 12 numbers to date below.

Has Doctor Who gone downhill?

We have to go way back to Season 23 of September 1986 to see a lesser amount of viewers as “The Mysterious Planet” Part Four only had 3.7 million viewers tuning in. Sunday’s episode of Doctor Who is also the eighth least-watched episode of the entire run which kicked off in 1963 and the lowest watched of the new series.

Fans at Rotten Tomatoes continue to slam the series as it only has a 13% Audience Score. “Words can not describe how bad this is. So many years of great Dr. Who and now we get this garbage,” stated one RT user. Another long-time fan of the show chimed in: “The new Doctor Who is a big disappointment. It’s missing all the charm and humor of the older versions.

Note: this is not Jodie Whitaker’s fault. They aren’t giving her much to work with, although I’m not sure she could handle the comic moments of the previous series.” While true there is an uptick in DVR viewings, the viewership is still down compared to the more popular seasons featuring Matt Smith and David Tennant, and even Peter Capaldi (note: Wiki is including the 7-day viewership for Season 12; not the live viewership like it shows for the previous seasons which is inflating the Season 12 numbers compared to previous seasons).

Check out the Season 12 numbers to date below.

Why was Dr Who so popular?

“As I was driving in L.A. once, I saw a huge billboard of the Doctor shown from behind in silhouette, with just a small ‘Doctor Who’ written in the corner. It’s a testatment to how aggressive the marketing for the rebooted show is that they expect audiences to know who the Doctor is.” Those words were spoken to me by Dr.

And in that study, how does he explain the longevity of the character? “The character is helped because he can be played by a limitless number of actors. The longevity of the character is assured because it thrives on the basis of character, even as popular culture changes. That idea of change – being able to reinvent itself – is central to Doctor Who,” Dael Kingsmill, who has a video series on Greek Mythology on Felicia Day’s ‘Geek and Sundry’ YouTube channel, agrees with this assessment.

There have been dozens of companions, but most of them are humans from the present time of the Doctor.
Part of the show’s appeal is that the Doctor travels with people that you might know,” Dr.
Britton told me.
An access point through contemporary world is part of its appeal.” One interesting thing about the show, Dr.

We engage with because they’re fascinating in and of themselves.” Neil McNeil, who also has a video series on Geek and Sundry, also credits companions for the show’s longevity.
I think the series has gone on for so long because it’s a new take on the fairytale genre, something that people can picture themselves being a part of.

All of us who grew up with Doctor Who are in some way influenced by it.
It’s unavoidable.
Doctor Who is part of the grain of British culture, and my world is better for it,” science fiction and comics writer Warren Ellis told me. Dr.
Britton concurs with this idea.
Even we did science fiction, it never looked like Doctor Who.

Britton describes as a “wonderfully enthusiastic amateur who’ll fix things in unforeseeable ways.
Doctor Who is about someone who improvises at the spur of the moment in both funny and infuriating ways.
And his child-like enthusiasm is matched by an adult cunning.” Perhaps the best way to explain the appeal of Doctor Who, though, comes from The Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson.

Who is the baddie in Doctor Who?

List of Doctor Who villains

Villain	Appearance(s)
The Beast	‘The Impossible Planet’/’The Satan Pit’
Beep the Meep	See Beep the Meep § List of appearances
Bennett	The Rescue
Black Guardian	The Armageddon Factor Mawdryn Undead Terminus Enlightenment

Is Jodie Whittaker the 14th Doctor?

October 23, 2022 Here they come As Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor regenerated on Sunday 23 rd October, it was none other than David Tennant who appeared as the Fourteenth Doctor. But what has led to the return of a much loved face? Talking about the future, Russell T Davies, Showrunner said: “If you thought the appearance of David Tennant was a shock, we’ve got plenty more surprises on the way! The path to Ncuti’s Fifteenth Doctor is laden with mystery, horror, robots, puppets, danger and fun! And how is it connected to the return of the wonderful Donna Noble? How, what, why? We’re giving you a year to speculate, and then all hell lets loose!”