Unless you are a straight white male, that is.
Ncuti Gatwa has attended this year’s BAFTA TV Awards ceremony alongside returning Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies after it was confirmed that he will take over from Jodie Whittaker as the Time Lord in the hit BBC series.
It was revealed that the 29-year-old will become the 14th Doctor on the popular BBC show, after Whittaker announced last July she will be leaving the role this autumn.
Gatwa is the first black actor to take on the leading role as The Doctor, after Jodie made history as the first permanent female Time Lord in 2017.
It was only a matter of time. Those boxes won’t tick themselves. The argument has always been that minorities feel that they aren’t represented on television. I’m beginning to know how they feel. Dr Who has been descending into the cesspit of wokery for years now. When it was revived, I watched for a bit, but by the end of David Tennent’s tenure, it was fairly obvious that this wasn’t sci-fi, it was grooming. This latest little episode is just another step along the way of marginalising the majority.
I suppose that I could move to Nigeria and demand that leading characters on their TV shows be played by white men in order to make me feel at home and represented. Worth a try. They might go for it…
TBH I don’t care who plays the doctor, I’m more concerned about the awful storylines.
PS: We’ve already had a mixed race actor play the doctor and no-one blinked a eyelid. No, seriously. Peter Davidson’s father was a mixed race gentleman whose ancestors were from Guyana.
That’s why I stopped watching years ago.
Yep. The real problem with New Who is that it just isn’t very good. I honestly wouldn’t care about them casting a black bloke (why not?) or even a woman (although it is a bit weird) if it wasn’t for the fact that this kind of stuff seems to be the only thing that they care about.
I gave up during Tennant’s reign too. I was even a bit disappointed in Wossname Northernbloke but thought, “Hey, finally Doctor Who is back on!” so I cut it some slack. And there were some genuine bright spots. Occasionally. But I just stopped caring in the end. Give me crappy sets and dodgy effects over crappy scripts and dodgy acting any day of the week.
I don’t watch – stopped during David Tennant’s run – but I’d have preferred someone like Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Dr Who gives a fuck!!
The only inevitable things in life are death and taxes…..and this utterly calculated anti-white offensiveness.
How do I know this?
Three letters B.B.C.
Hells teeth, I’d rather watch my own gonads being fed to flesh eating bacteria!
I have a Theory of TV Series Trajectories…
The first few series are interesting (Stage 1) as they show the details of police procedurals, work in an A&E, Time Lording etc. Then the series get weaker on details (there are only so many times people have a pneumothorax, police are let down by corrupt or lazy colleagues, Daleks again) but include some insights into our protagonists nature (Stage 2). Then Stage 3, the incidents in each episode are just background to our major characters being emotional all the f***ing time. And now I guess we move smartly on to Stage 4 where only the right kind of person is allowed to be a protagonist – all the other people join the background as incidental and disposable spear carriers, rude mechanicals, red shirt-wearing Away Team members.
I offer in evidence Doctor Who (Stage 4), Casualty (Stage 4), Miami Vice (Stage 3, because it ended some time ago), The Archers (Stage 4), East Enders (Stage 4).
Some, like Fawlty Towers, go out while still on top because the makers realise this.
Yes, but he’s still a middle-class male though, isn’t he? The point about intersectionality is that only the rarest individuals are worthy. Until a black, lesbian, blind, deaf-mute dwarf is portraying “Doctor Who” we aren’t going to get anywhere are we?
You missed out the TRANSGENDER bit … Gotta shoe horn the transgender aspect in somehow to cover all the bases (at least up until now … next week it’ll be another cause du jour that needs to be accommodated).
But look on the bright side. A Singaporean dancer is to play the young Princess Elisabeth before she became the Queen. At least she isn’t in a wheelchair …
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10772397/Singaporean-dancer-play-Princess-Elizabeth-Platinum-Jubilee-pageant-diverse-Britain.html
I hardly watch the telly so I can’t really comment much. There is a lot of gardening and swimming to be done though.
“Gatwa is the first black actor to take on the leading role as The Doctor…”
I thought the first black actor to play The Doctor was Jo Martin back in 2020 (“Fugitive of the Judoon”).
I’m just waiting till Anton Deck are cast as conjoined twins – one gay, the other transsexual – where the one with the highest forehead in show business kills the villains by reflecting light off his/her/it’s bonce. I may even stay awake long enough to watch it.
That’s why Capeldi resigned iirc
As for who, yes I care. Doctor Who was created as a white male, like James Bond, Superman etc. Want a different hero series: create one. Sara Jane, Charlies Angels, Wonder Woman, Luther were all popular
BBC? Haven’t reaaly watched for many years, I’d guess max 20 hrs pa. Plus oldies on YT or Torrents and sometime QT on YT. Gave up on BBC Radio in 2016. Stopped paying ~2002
I’ll give the bloke a chance but only because Russel T Davis is writing it and running the show. Just as long as he hasn’t been got at to write woke preachy rubbish like Chibnall did.
I wouldn’t put money on it. Davis was responsible for a gradual descent into wokery way back during the Tennant era, but good luck with it. I’m going to pass on this one.
Davis iirc was responsible for all the gay porn in th Doctor Who spinoff set in Wales. An otherwise OK prog killed by wokery
btw I’m slowly watching all Howards Way on YT. BBC inserting politics (Right bad, Left good), imoral, woke, gay & polyamorous in mid 80s too, but not as much as now. Loathed those characters then, still do now
Yup. Not a bad concept but the overt gayness was distracting. I have a gay character in some of my stories, but it’s hinted at early on and not made a big thing of. Which is the way it should be.