Ratings, schmatings: Despite a drop in viewership this year, Doctor Who is safe and sound on the BBC, controller of drama commissioning Piers Wenger said.
Speaking at a studio launch event, Wenger confirmed the sci-fi show won’t be cancelled any time soon.
“I genuinely—I worked on Doctor Who myself, I produced it for many years, and I can honestly say that I don’t think it’s been in better health, editorially,” he said, as reported by RadioTimes. “I think it’s fantastic and… the production values obviously have never been better.”
Not everyone agrees, though.
I know long-time fans who have, for various and personal reasons, stopped watching Doctor Who over the last few years. And there are plenty of trolls who quit the show over Jodie Whittaker’s casting.
(Still, her 2018 debut as the Thirteenth Doctor marked the highest-ever Doctor Who series launch since its return in 2005.)
“It’s an incredibly important show for younger audiences, still watched by families in a world where there are fewer and fewer shows that have the power to do that, so it will always be an important show for us,” Wenger said.
“I think we’re a very long way from wanting to rest it,” he added.
Fingers crossed!
After all, Whittaker already confirmed she’s “doing another season.”
“That might be a massive exclusive that I’m not supposed to say,” she told Entertainment Weekly in January. “But it’s unhelpful for me to say [I don’t know] because it would be a massive lie.”
The BBC staple returned on New Year’s Day with a festive twist: Sacha Dhawan as the latest incarnation of the Doctor’s frenemy, evil Time Lord the Master.
He surprised audiences once again in last week’s “Ascension of the Cybermen”—part one of the two-part finale.
Find out what happens next in Sunday’s end-game episode, airing at 8 p.m. ET on BBC America.
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