{"id":20815,"date":"2017-01-31T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T12:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20815"},"modified":"2017-01-31T12:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T12:15:58","slug":"whos-doctor-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20815","title":{"rendered":"Who’s Doctor Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TomAnother one which follows on tentatively from the previous two articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t watched Doctor Who since Tom Baker left, and although the reboot of the series in recent years seemed to take a quantum leap in terms of budget and effects, it just doesn\u2019t interest me anymore \u2013 maybe I just grew up? I don\u2019t know. But the BBC loves hyping the show up, and whenever the current actor playing the Doctor announces he is stepping down (as Peter Capaldi, the present Doctor, has just done), \u201cspeculation\u201d on who might take over fills the Beeb\u2019s website almost immediately.<\/p>\n

Almost by definition, the \u201cDoctor\u201d in Doctor Who is a male character. He was never conceived as anything else. Naturally, to the BBC, this now means that four out of the eleven suggested short-listers are female.<\/p>\n

I wonder what odds the bookies will be offering? Could be worth a flutter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another one which follows on tentatively from the previous two articles. I haven\u2019t watched Doctor Who since Tom Baker left, and although the reboot of the series in recent years seemed to take a quantum leap in terms of budget and effects, it just doesn\u2019t interest me anymore \u2013 maybe I just grew up? I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[103,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-tv-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t