{"id":44148,"date":"2024-01-19T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T10:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1963741"},"modified":"2024-01-19T11:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T10:43:42","slug":"doctor-whos-peter-capaldi-says-its-fascinating-that-heaven-sent-is-fan-favourite","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/doctor-whos-peter-capaldi-says-its-fascinating-that-heaven-sent-is-fan-favourite\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who\u2019s Peter Capaldi says it\u2019s \u201cfascinating\u201d that Heaven Sent is fan favourite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> &#8220;That particular episode\u2019s just all about death and I think that\u2019s fascinating that that episode became the all-time favourite.&#8221; <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Morgan Cormack\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 19 January 2024 at 10:24 AM<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Fans of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/doctor-who\/\">Doctor Who<\/a> have spoken and, according to a poll done by <a href=\"https:\/\/doctorwhomagazine.com\/subscriptions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Doctor Who Magazine<\/a>, the best episode of the long-running sci-fi series was revealed to be Heaven Sent.<\/p>\n<p>The episode, which was first aired in 2015, features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/comedy\/peter-capaldi-thick-of-it-reboot-trivialise-profound-issues-newsupdate\/\">Peter Capaldi<\/a>\u2018s Twelfth Doctor who is imprisoned in an eerie castle by the Time Lords and is followed by a mysterious cloaked figure.<\/p>\n<p>But things get haunting when the cycle continues, with the Doctor spending four-and-a-half billion years in a loop dying and coming back to life to try and figure out how to escape.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now Capaldi himself has revealed his thoughts about Heaven Sent being crowned the best episode of Doctor Who.<\/p> <p>Speaking on the <a href=\"https:\/\/listen.sonymusic-podcasts.link\/COCO57300?c=7J5iFepKdvEL2gswnb18UQ&amp;h=78565d8da5c31a508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Where There\u2019s A Will, There\u2019s A Wake podcast<\/a>, the actor revealed to host and actress Kathy Burke: \u201cThat was lovely, it was an episode that was written by the wonderful Steven Moffat who looked after the show when I was in it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very unusual. It was beautifully directed by Rachel Talalay, who\u2019s a lovely American lady. [With] Doctor Who, you\u2019ve got to talk about monsters and it\u2019s a sort of circus \u2013 kids love it and everybody\u2019s got to be entertained but actually underneath it all, there\u2019s a sense of melancholy and death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat particular episode\u2019s just all about death and I think that\u2019s fascinating that that episode became the all-time favourite.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Somewhere in a parallel universe, Kathy is exterminating Daleks as the newest Doctor&#8230; <br\/><br\/>BRAND NEW episode with Peter Capaldi is out now \ud83c\udfc3\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WTAWTAW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WTAWTAW<\/a> x <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcdoctorwho?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bbcdoctorwho<\/a> <br\/><br\/>Follow and subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EbRLssiYyu\">https:\/\/t.co\/EbRLssiYyu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6dYVCGrcBI\">pic.twitter.com\/6dYVCGrcBI<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Where There&#8217;s A Will, There&#8217;s A Wake (@deathpod_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deathpod_\/status\/1747876475422831037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"\/>\n<p>Capaldi continued: \u201c[Kids are] smart in the sense they understand instinctively that there\u2019s darkness and there are things around and the monsters are manifestations of that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut also the fact that the central character in Doctor Who will die \u2013 even though they come back as somebody else, the one that you love has gone, and that\u2019s a very compelling and powerful thing to have at the centre of a show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the episode is clearly a fan-favourite, Capaldi has recently set the record straight about whether his Twelfth Doctor will ever make a return to the series, after the 60th anniversary episodes marked the return of David Tennant.<\/p>\n<p>He told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/simonthompson\/2024\/01\/10\/peter-capaldi-on-criminal-record-and-doctor-who-being-good-for-the-world\/?sh=60245ddf1f7a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forbes<\/a>: \u201cI like the idea that my Doctor is still out there. He\u2019s not available to come and be on TV. The real Doctor is not on TV, the real Doctor is out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/peter-capaldi-criminal-record-racism-misogyny-newsupdate\/\">Peter Capaldi: Police drama Criminal Record had to tackle racism, misogyny<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/peter-capaldi-doctor-who-return-newsupdate\/\">Peter Capaldi explains why he won\u2019t return to Doctor Who<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As of now, Capaldi can be seen in new Apple TV+ crime drama Criminal Record alongside Cush Jumbo (Stay Close) as two clashing detectives are drawn into a confrontation over an old murder case.<\/p>\n<p>The series, according to Apple: \u201cTouches on issues of race, institutional failure and the quest to find common ground in a polarised Britain.\u201d<\/p> <div class=\"brightcove embed\"> <div class=\"embed__intrinsic\"> <div class=\"brightcove__player vjs-playlist-player-container\"> <video data-video-id=\"6344741413112\" data-account=\"69912529001\" data-player=\"ByeOf0VZEl\" data-embed=\"default\" data-application-id=\"\" controls=\"\" class=\"video-js\"> <\/video> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/69912529001\/ByeOf0VZEl_default\/index.min.js\"\/> <p><strong>Doctor Who is available to stream on BBC iPlayer. 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For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0<a id=\"OWA71a5a05f-6651-b0f3-aeda-3d3d09b909b1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;That particular episode\u2019s just all about death and I think that\u2019s fascinating that that episode became the all-time favourite.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":44149,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/doctor-whos-peter-capaldi-says-its-fascinating-that-heaven-sent-is-fan-favourite.jpg",410,273,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/doctor-whos-peter-capaldi-says-its-fascinating-that-heaven-sent-is-fan-favourite-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/doctor-whos-peter-capaldi-says-its-fascinating-that-heaven-sent-is-fan-favourite-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/doctor-whos-peter-capaldi-says-its-fascinating-that-heaven-sent-is-fan-favourite.jpg",410,273,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/doctor-whos-peter-capaldi-says-its-fascinating-that-heaven-sent-is-fan-favourite.jpg",410,273,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/doctor-whos-peter-capaldi-says-its-fascinating-that-heaven-sent-is-fan-favourite.jpg",410,273,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/01\/doctor-whos-peter-capaldi-says-its-fascinating-that-heaven-sent-is-fan-favourite.jpg",410,273,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"\"That particular episode\u2019s just all about death and I think that\u2019s fascinating that that episode became the all-time favourite.\"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/44148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}