[singlepic id=827 w=330 h=279 float=left]The new Doctor, Peter Capaldi, makes his debut on the front cover of this week’s Radio Times ahead of the BAFTA Television Awards, taking place this Saturday 18th May at 8pm. The Doctor Who 50th anniversary special, The Day of the Doctor, is nominated in the Radio Times Audience Award category, facing stiff competition from Broadchurch, Breaking Bad, Educating Yorkshire, The Great British Bake-Off and Gogglebox. Voting closes at midday on 15th May.
There Radio Times includes a 16 page guide to this year’s BAFTA TV Awards, and the magazine also includes a feature on Doctor Who, with lead writer/executive producer Steven Moffat discussing writing The Day of the Doctor, revealing how it was the most “difficult” and “terrifying” thing he has ever written!
Speaking about how Capaldi came to be chosen as the new Doctor, he said:
When you choose a Doctor, you want somebody who is utterly compelling, attractive in a very odd way. None of the Doctors are conventionally attractive, but they’re all arresting. Handsome men don’t quite suit. Matt Smith’s a young, good-looking bloke from one angle but is actually the strangest looking man from another. You need that oddity; you need somebody who is carved out of solid star, really. Doctor Who is a whopping great star vehicle, despite the fact it changes star every so often.
The Radio Times is on sale now.