Actor Peter Capaldi, who’s currently playing the titular role in Doctor Who has revealed he’ll be leaving the sci-fi series following the new tenth season of the show.
The role is something that’s recast every so often as the Time Lord goes through a ‘regeneration’ process, allowing the series to go on indefinitely whilst keeping the leading cast fresh.
Capaldi joins longtime showrunner Steven Moffat in leaving the series, with the latter being replaced by Chris Chibnall in what could be the biggest modern-day soft reboot of the show to-date.
Moffat added in a statement: “For years before I ever imagined being involved in Doctor Who, or had ever et the man, I wanted to work with Peter Capaldi. I could not have imagined that one day we’d be standing on the TARDIS together. Like Peter, I’m facing up to leaving the best job I’ll ever have, but knowing I do so in the company of the best, and kindest and cleverest of men, makes the saddest of endings a little sweeter. But hey, it’s a long way from over. Peters’ amazing, fiery, turbulent Doctor is still fighting the good fight, and his greatest adventures are yet to come. Monsters of the universe, be on your guard – Capaldi’s not done with you yet!”
Capaldi still has an entire season of the show to go to further cement his legacy as one of the many Doctors who have gone down in history. We’ll have to tune in to discover whether or not the storylines that bring Capaldi’s time on the show to an end will stand up as some of the most memorable of all time.
Doctor Who season 10 comes to screens later this year in the UK, on April 15 on BBC One and in the US on April 15 on BBC America.
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