Moffat on Doctor Who’s Longevity – and Peter Capaldi “Going Nowhere”

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Good news, folks: showrunner, Steven Moffat has confirmed there’s a solid future for Doctor Who in itself – and for its leading man, Peter Capaldi!

There had been rumours that Capaldi would be leaving the role of the Doctor very soon, but more recent speculation has hinted that he and Moffat would be around for Series 10. Steven has further told Variety:

“Peter Capaldi is going nowhere.”

Phew! Great to hear. Even greater is the fact that Steven’s apparently had some insight into the future of the show:

“It is definitely going to last five more years, I’ve seen the business plan. It’s not going anywhere. And I think we can go past that. It’s television’s own legend. It will just keep going.”

While we might be being a tad too optimistic here, Doctor Who has become an incredible cultural symbol, one valued by the BBC especially their commercial arm.

So what does Moffat think is the key to its success? He says:

“Doctor Who is the all-time perfectly evolved television show. It’s a television predator designed to survive any environment because you can replace absolutely everybody. Most shows you can’t do that with. For example, once Benedict Cumberbatch gives up Sherlock, what are we going to do? We are going to stop, that’s what we are going to do. Most shows have a built-in mortality. But here is a show that sheds us all like scales; a show that can make you feel everything except indispensable. It will carry on forever, because you can replace every part of it.”

Apart from the TARDIS. Nobody touch the TARDIS or I will hunt you down.

It’s true that Doctor Who is a bit of a legend now, having successfully lived past death many times – but notably between 1989 and 1996, then 1996 to 2005.

That means that it’s something passed down generation to generation, and that the people watching today will one day run the show with the same passion and enthusiasm and, yes, love that’s displayed by Moffat and Capaldi and countless others.

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