Peter Capaldi has spoken on Series 10, the next companion, and Chris Chibnall taking over the show.
Speaking to the Radio Times, he said: “You have to be fit to do Doctor Who,” on preparing for Series 10. “So I’ve just been getting myself ready and I’ll be getting into training to start the show. When we start, it’ll run for 9 months and the most important thing is to be there and to be fit and be on top of everything. I’m looking forward to starting!
“There wasn’t really anything else around that I particularly wanted to do [in the meantime, before Doctor Who]. I’m really looking forward to it. We’ve got great writers and some fabulous, exciting stories!”
“We’ve just had some brief talks about [the next companion]. We haven’t actually chosen someone yet - that I know of. Perhaps someone has been chosen but I would expect that I would meet them before we finalised all that. So we’re looking for someone different.”
Capaldi went on to speak about Chris Chibnall taking over as lead writer and executive producer: “I think Chris is a wonderful writer, so that’s the exciting thing about Doctor Who - I don’t really know what he’s going to do with it. It’s going to be different, and he’ll take it in a direction that is his... and that’ll be very exciting. That’s the lovely thing about Doctor Who, it keeps changing. Steven [Moffat] has been fabulous, but it will be very exciting to see what Chris does.”
Doctor Who Series 10 is expected to air on BBC One in Spring 2017.
“There wasn’t really anything else around that I particularly wanted to do [in the meantime, before Doctor Who]. I’m really looking forward to it. We’ve got great writers and some fabulous, exciting stories!”
“We’ve just had some brief talks about [the next companion]. We haven’t actually chosen someone yet - that I know of. Perhaps someone has been chosen but I would expect that I would meet them before we finalised all that. So we’re looking for someone different.”
Capaldi went on to speak about Chris Chibnall taking over as lead writer and executive producer: “I think Chris is a wonderful writer, so that’s the exciting thing about Doctor Who - I don’t really know what he’s going to do with it. It’s going to be different, and he’ll take it in a direction that is his... and that’ll be very exciting. That’s the lovely thing about Doctor Who, it keeps changing. Steven [Moffat] has been fabulous, but it will be very exciting to see what Chris does.”
Doctor Who Series 10 is expected to air on BBC One in Spring 2017.
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