Doctor Who’s Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall to Exit in 2022

The BBC has announce thatcurrent Doctor Jodie Whittakeras well asshowrunner Chris Chibnall , will depart Doctor Who in 2022 . The duo will , after the upcoming time of year 13 , will say farewell with three special episode to tune throughout next year .

“ In 2017 I open my glorious gift box of size 13 shoes . I could not have guessed the glorious dangerous undertaking , cosmos and admiration I was to see in them . My heart is so full of love for this show , for the team who make it , for the fans who look on it and for what it has brought to my animation , ” Whittaker say in astatement released by the BBC . “ And I can not give thanks Chris enough for entrusting me with his unbelievable tale . We knew that we wanted to ride this wave side by side , and pass on the baton together . So here we are , weeks away from wind on the good job I have ever had . I do n’t think I ’ll ever be capable to express what this role has give me . I will carry the Doctor and the lesson I ’ve determine forever . I get it on change can be shuddery and none of us know what ’s out there . That ’s why we keep looking . move around Hopefully . The Universe will surprise you . Constantly . ”

According to the potbelly , Doctor Who ’s 13th season will ventilate later this year as a “ six - part event serial”—the time of year , truncated by shoot confinement due to the covid-19 pandemic , waspreviously annunciate as being eight episode long — with two antecedently planned specials to publicise in 2022 . Those special will now be unite by a third “ feature length escapade , ” which will press farewell to Whittaker ’s avatar of the Time Lord and see her regenerate into a new configuration .

Goodbye, Doctor.

Goodbye, Doctor.Image: BBC

“ Jodie and I made a ‘ three series and out ’ accord with each other at the start of this once - in - a - lifetime blast . So now our shift is done , and we ’re handing back the TARDIS keys , ” Chibnall said in an accompanying affirmation . “ Jodie ’s magnificent , iconic Doctor has exceeded all our high expectations . She ’s been the gilded stock lead actor , shoulder the responsibleness of being the first distaff Dr. with fashion , intensity level , warmth , generosity and humour . She enamor the public imagination and continues to inspire adoration around the creation , as well as from everyone on the production . I ca n’t guess work with a more inspiring Doctor – so I ’m not going to ! ”

Whittaker and Chibnall ’s first two season of the show were define by a push and pull between a view of Doctor Who as eithera tool for explicit societal commentaryabout the humankind in which we live ( and its past tense ) or the moretraditional , lusus naturae - frontward actionthat epitomize both the show ’s classic beginning and its modern incarnation when it first began in 2005 . While their first season , struggled to find out a rest , often choose either at the disbursal of the other , time of year 12 brought with it a better handling of these two side of Doctor Who — along with some big , wholesale revelationsabout the Doctor ’s human relationship with their pastthat will no doubt take on a part in Whittaker ’s swansong next yr .

And if you ’re already wondering what ’s next , Radio Timescites the BBC as say : “ We will declare plans for the new generation of Doctor Who in due course – watch this infinite ! ” you may also keep your eyes on this blank space , of row , as we ’ll always keep you up to appointment on the latest in the world of Who . What do you think of today ’s grownup news program ?

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