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Official – Matt Smith To Leave Doctor Who
Matt Smith To Leave Doctor Who
The BBC is today announcing that Matt Smith is to leave Doctor Who after four incredible years on the hit BBC One show.
Matt first stepped into the TARDIS in 2010 and will leave the role at the end of this year after starring in the unmissable 50th Anniversary in November and regenerating in the Christmas Special.
During his time as the Doctor, Matt has reached over 30 million unique UK viewers and his incarnation has seen the show go truly global. He was also the first actor to be nominated for a BAFTA in the role.
Matt quickly won over fans to be voted Best Actor by Readers of Doctor Who Magazine for the 2010 season. He also received a nod for his first series at the National Television Awards, before winning the Most Popular Male Drama Performance award in 2012.
Matt has played one of the biggest roles in TV with over 77 million fans in the UK, USA and Australia alone!
Matt Smith says: “Doctor Who has been the most brilliant experience for me as an actor and a bloke, and that largely is down to the cast, crew and fans of the show. I’m incredibly grateful to all the cast and crew who work tirelessly every day, to realise all the elements of the show and deliver Doctor Who to the audience. Many of them have become good friends and I’m incredibly proud of what we have achieved over the last four years.
“Having Steven Moffat as show runner write such varied, funny, mind-bending and brilliant scripts has been one of the greatest and most rewarding challenges of my career. It’s been a privilege and a treat to work with Steven, he’s a good friend and will continue to shape a brilliant world for the Doctor.
“The fans of Doctor Who around the world are unlike any other; they dress up, shout louder, know more about the history of the show (and speculate more about the future of the show) in a way that I’ve never seen before, your dedication is truly remarkable. Thank you so very much for supporting my incarnation of the Time Lord, number Eleven, who I might add is not done yet, I’m back for the 50th anniversary and the Christmas special!
“It’s been an honour to play this part, to follow the legacy of brilliant actors, and helm the TARDIS for a spell with ‘the ginger, the nose and the impossible one’. But when ya gotta go, ya gotta go and Trenzalore calls. Thank you guys. Matt.”
Steven Moffat, lead writer and executive producer, says: “Every day, on every episode, in every set of rushes, Matt Smith surprised me: the way he’d turn a line, or spin on his heels, or make something funny, or out of nowhere make me cry, I just never knew what was coming next. The Doctor can be clown and hero, often at the same time, and Matt rose to both challenges magnificently.
“And even better than that, given the pressures of this extraordinary show, he is one of the nicest and hardest-working people I have ever had the privilege of knowing. Whatever we threw at him – sometimes literally – his behaviour was always worthy of the Doctor.
“But great actors always know when it’s time for the curtain call, so this Christmas prepare for your hearts to break, as we say goodbye to number Eleven. Thank you Matt – bow ties were never cooler.
“Of course, this isn’t the end of the story, because now the search begins. Somewhere out there right now – all unknowing, just going about their business – is someone who’s about to become the Doctor. A life is going to change, and Doctor Who will be born all over again! After 50 years, that’s still so exciting!”
Having starred alongside three different companions, Amy Pond (Karen Gillan), Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) and most recently Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman), Matt’s Doctor has fought Daleks and Cybermen, as well as Weeping Angels in New York. Regularly heard shouting ‘run’ and ‘Geronimo’, through Matt’s Doctor fans have been introduced to a new culinary combination – fish fingers and custard!
Matt’s spectacular exit is yet to be revealed and will be kept tightly under wraps. He will return to BBC One screens in the unmissable 50th anniversary episode on Saturday 23 November 2013 – TUNE IN!
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Anonymous
June 1st, 2013 - 11:44pmThey need to get a talent show get the dr who production team and bits of the cast and Alesha Dixon to judge who is best and ultimately the decision would be in Alesha’s hands if the panel couldn’t make a decision and it went to deadlock
booboo
June 1st, 2013 - 11:44pmits just the nature of the internet
we run a very tight ship here very good reason
I’ve just had to get rid of a few because people started to argue about Coronation street being better than Doctor who
Doctor Stu
June 1st, 2013 - 11:43pmSo weird as I was thinking about this today, Would be good if he starts to regenerate backwards and ends up as David Tennant forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JJ
June 1st, 2013 - 11:42pmI’ve always said Danny Horn who played Middle Kazran in A Christmas Carol, I just think he could be good?
videogamemad00
June 1st, 2013 - 11:42pmYes I understand why it is done it just annoying me. Especially when people asked me why and I couldn’t reply because I’d been blocked/banned and everyone took me for a troll.
hehehe
June 1st, 2013 - 11:41pmMICHELLE KEEGAN WOULD BE AMAZING IF THE DOCTOR IS GOING TO BE A WOMAN.She is just such a good actress if the doctor is to be woman then they really need to consider her.
JJ
June 1st, 2013 - 11:41pmsteven is still great. I would love to be in Doctor Who!
joethewhovian
June 1st, 2013 - 11:38pmIf moffat makes the doctor a woman, that makes him a downright nasty demon. Nuff said.
Unknown
June 1st, 2013 - 11:38pmHe would be awesome
Amy McFarland
June 1st, 2013 - 11:37pmLouis Tomlinson for the Doctor!! He’d be awesome!! And he would suit the suits 😉 and the style of the doctor!! 😀 just don’t get a woman! I personally would stop watching the show if you do.. Sorry but its the truth!!
doctorclara
June 1st, 2013 - 11:35pmNOOOOO!!! Matt you will always be the best doctor! Wish you weren’t leaving. Bowties are cool.
booboo
June 1st, 2013 - 11:35pmif its anything like this site you will still get aggressive follow ups that you may not even see, if there aren’t any the comment may stay
its all about keeping things under control because things can get out of hand in a matter of minuets
usually on facebook of youtube you can say what you like
videogamemad00
June 1st, 2013 - 11:31pmI normally provide reasons but even they get deleted.
booboo
June 1st, 2013 - 11:29pmcomments like that will attract aggressive follow ups, its happened twice on here already and things just get into a a slanging match so i’m not surprised
yeti recorder 2
June 1st, 2013 - 11:28pmBut….
videogamemad00
June 1st, 2013 - 11:26pmI only have to say “I’m glad Matt’s leaving” and it gets deleted.
booboo
June 1st, 2013 - 11:25pmits depends on what follow up its likely to get
personally i think if they had cast Joanna lumley some years ago i think she could have carried it
videogamemad00
June 1st, 2013 - 11:23pmCan I express an opinion on this site? I can’t seem to without the comment being deleted on any other site.
dr doak
June 1st, 2013 - 11:22pmMATT HESTER he should do it http://matthesterdoctorwho.weebly.com/
videogamemad00
June 1st, 2013 - 11:22pmI agree.
Anonymous
June 1st, 2013 - 11:20pmWe know Time Lords can choose to change genders during regeneration (the Corsair did this)…so if after 10 regenerations, the Doctor has always opted to remain a male…it would make no sense for him to become femail now…so in my opnion it would be a short sighted move nothing short of a gimick by the writters should they opt to do this.
olletsoc
June 1st, 2013 - 11:11pmWe need someone more serious, and older than Matt Smith.
olletsoc
June 1st, 2013 - 11:11pmScott Maslen would be awesome, imagine him with the Daleks. “shat ap will ya?” *SMACK*
videogamemad00
June 1st, 2013 - 11:06pmI think it would be quite good if they had at least 1 female (canon) doctor.
booboo
June 1st, 2013 - 11:04pmoh well that rules Roger Moore out then
T. Mayo
June 1st, 2013 - 11:03pmI think Matt Smith is leaving at the right time. He’s done 3 series and that is the average for someone to play the Doctor. I’m hoping they go for a slightly older actor, not like the age of John Hurt, but maybe someone in their late thirties/early forties.
booboo
June 1st, 2013 - 11:03pmnot even if she becomes a he again
dalekste
June 1st, 2013 - 11:01pmIF THE DOCTOR IS A WOMAN, I WILL NEVER WATCH THE SHOW AGAIN!!!
UnitedGamers2013
June 1st, 2013 - 10:59pmI’ve got a feeling that Moffat will be leaving too. Because he said in an interview
“I’m closer to the end of my time than the beginning”
Very sad news. Don’t think I will sleep tonight and I think it’s ruined the feel of the 50th knowing he will be leaving in the episode after that. Lets just say its not going to be a very happy christmas
Ewan McGreagor
June 1st, 2013 - 10:58pmI would love to see Ewan McGregor as the Doctor!