Actor Peter Capaldi is set to exit Doctor Who at the end of the current season. The actor, who has played the iconic BBC character since 2013, will leave at the end of the current season with his final episode airing on Christmas Day.
“I feel it’s time to move on,” he said on BBC Radio 2 on Monday evening.
“I feel sad, I love Doctor Who, it is a fantastic programme to work on,” he said. “It can’t praise the people I work with more highly, but I have always been someone that did a lot of different things.”
Capaldi was apparently asked to stay on in the role, but instead he will leave along with long-standing writer and executive producer Steven Moffat.
Moffat said of Capaldi:
“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.”
Charlotte Moore, director of BBC Content, said: “He has been a tremendous Doctor who has brought his own unique wisdom and charisma to the role.”
We imagine that a new Doctor will be in place to pass the baton in December.
We’ll bring you more as it comes in.
