{"id":46371,"date":"2024-02-21T21:15:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1996212"},"modified":"2024-02-21T23:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T22:00:52","slug":"doctor-who-has-never-been-more-ambitious-and-brave-says-bbc-boss","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/doctor-who-has-never-been-more-ambitious-and-brave-says-bbc-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Doctor Who has never been more ambitious and brave,\u2019 says BBC boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ncuti Gatwa’s first full season begins in May. <\/p>

By Louise Griffin\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 21 February 2024 at 20:15 PM<\/p>

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BBC Director of Drama Lindsay Salt has said that Doctor Who<\/a> has \u201cnever been more ambitious and brave\u201d following its 60th anniversary.<\/p>\n

The beloved sci-fi celebrated the huge milestone last year, bringing back David Tennant<\/a> and Catherine Tate for three special episodes, which teed up Ncuti Gatwa\u2019s<\/a> Fifteenth Doctor.<\/p>\n

Salt celebrated how far the show has come while looking ahead at the BBC\u2019s upcoming slate, which includes a new sci-fi commission based on the novel The Ministry of Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cDoctor Who celebrated its 60-year anniversary last year and has never been more ambitious and brave.\u201d<\/p>\n

Immediately afterwards, she spoke about the BBC\u2019s approach to risk-taking \u2013 and why she thinks it\u2019s so essential.<\/p>\n

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Salt said: \u201cThere\u2019s something about this moment, the current climate in our industry, that makes our approach to risk even more essential.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile others might become more cautious, we will go further to take the risks others won\u2019t \u2013 to task all the producers and creatives in this room to keep pushing those boundaries, and to venture into the creative unknown.<\/p>

\u201cAnd real risk-taking is also about protecting those dangerous moments in scripts, those moments where you sit up and think: \u2018Wow, I\u2019ve never seen that before\u2019 or \u2018Are you allowed to do that?!\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n

Gatwa\u2019s first full season of Doctor Who will begin in May, with the BBC releasing a trailer<\/a> at Christmas teasing what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n

Season 14 will see the Doctor and companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) meet the Beatles in the 1960s, encounter Jinkx Monsoon\u2019s<\/a> terrifying villain, and adventure to the regency period<\/a> with a character played by Jonathan Groff.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t wait!<\/p>\n

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