Does Doctor Who need a regeneration?

HOW did the Doctor Who special get a five-star TV rating? It promised much, but delivered little. As the Doctor, Jodie Whittaker is limp and uninspiring. An epic battle between new and old Daleks could have gone down in sci-fi history, but was ignored in favour of a slow, soap-opera style scene about feelings. The BBC needs to stop preaching and start entertaining.

JOHN HARTLEY, Woking, Surrey. I CAN’T wait to see John Bishop as a companion in the next series of Doctor Who. He’s sexy and makes me laugh. What more could you ask? JEAN COOPER, Milton Keynes, Bucks.

LIKE her Doctor Who predecessors, Peter Capaldi, Matt Smith, David Tennant, Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker, Peter Davidson and Patrick Troughton, Jodie Whittaker is leaving after three series. Surely, now’s the time to follow the lead of Have I Got News For You and invite a different smart alec to fill the star host role each week.

TERRY HICKMAN, Southampton. THE news that Jodie Whittaker is to step down from the role of Doctor Who is diluted by the claim that, as the first female Doctor, she made history. Yes, she did, but not in a good way. From a high of 10.54 million viewers for her debut episode, her time as the Doctor has seen the ratings plunge to 3.71 million last year. And while the latest special had the highest viewing figures on BBC1 for the day, it achieved the lowest overnight ratings of any of the 20 Doctor Who specials since 2005. The BBC, caught in the grip of woke madness, decided to eschew good writing and instead give us clumsy lecturing and gimmicky PC box-ticking. Sadly, it has succeeded in doing what neither the Daleks nor Cybermen could manage — it has exterminated Doctor Who!