Has six months since the Doctor 50th anniversary celebrations been just too long? Well, Whovians, you'll need to hold off another two months, but Peter Capaldi's era as the Doctor is about to begin.
The BBC has confirmed that the new season will air from Saturday 23 August, pairing the announcement with an ominous teaser trailer. The Doctor can be heard asking, in what sounds like broken English, "Am I good man?" There could be a slurred "a" in there, making enunciation another mystery to be solved if so.
Capaldi plays the 12th Doctor -- not counting some wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey shenanigans that series runner Stephen Moffat used to run through the character's limited number of regenerations -- and will be joined by returning companion Clara Oswald, played by Jenna Coleman. Another new face on board the TARDIS will be Samuel Anderson, playing Danny Pink -- Clara's co-worker and fellow teacher. It all sounds like a deliberate redux of the original set-up for Doctor Who, minus the granddaughter character. Well, at least that we know of....
The new stretch of episodes will run uninterrupted, unlike season seven, which was split over two years, much to Moffat -- and fans' -- chagrin. The first episode is titled 'Deep Breath', and is set to be "feature length". To be fair, a movie length episode is the least the Beeb could do after keeping us waiting a full eight months.
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