Fans forced to wait as ‘Doctor Who’ travels forward in time to 2020
DOCTOR WHO will be returning for another series – but Jodie Whittaker’s Tardis will not land again until 2020.
Series 11 came to an end on Sunday evening, with the Doctor answering distress calls from a battle-scarred planet. But there will be no new series of the scifi show, which has notched up praise for Whittaker’s performance but also some complaints about “politically correct” storylines, in 2019.
Whittaker, who hails from West Yorkshire, and her trio of companions, Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gil and Tosin Cole, will instead reprise their roles on BBC1 in 2020.
Doctor Who boss and head writer Chris Chibnall said work has already begun on the 12th series. The first episode of the new series of the sci-fi show, starring Whittaker as the first female Doctor, drew the programme’s biggest launch viewing figures in 10 years. Its stars recently hit back at suggestions that the programme has become too politically correct, with episodes covering the US Civil Rights movement and the 1947 partition of India.
Whittaker is the latest Doctor following the likes of Peter Capaldi, Matt Smith and David Tennant. Doctor Who will make it briefly to screens in 2019, with a New Year’s Day special airing instead of the usual Christmas Day episode.