‘Doctor Who’ Season 10 will still star Peter Capaldi

After Jenna Coleman’s announcement that she is not reprising her role as Clara Oswald in “Doctor Who” Season 10, rumours claimed that Peter Capaldi will also leave the BBC sci-fi series after the ninth season. However, it was recently confirmed that he is not leaving the British series soon.

“Peter Capaldi is going nowhere,” “Doctor Who” executive producer Steven Moffat told Variety. He also confirmed that the BBC sci-fi series is “definitely going to last five more years,” as he has seen the business plan.

“It’s not going anywhere, and I think we can go past that,” Moffat said of “Doctor Who.” “It’s television’s own legend. It will just keep going.”

Moffat described “Doctor Who” as “the all-time perfectly evolved television show.” For him, the show is a television predator that is designed to survive any environment, considering that anybody can be replaced, which cannot be done with most shows. As an example, Moffat said that if Benedict Cumberbatch decides to give up “Sherlock,” the British crime drama series would have to stop.

According to Moffat, most TV series have a built-in mortality. However, he considers “Doctor Who” a show that will carry on forever because every part of it can be replaced.

“Peter has made it clear he is happy playing the Doctor for as long as the BBC and viewers want him,” Mirror previously quoted a BBC source as saying. The source reportedly added that the show is very happy with Capaldi and "viewers are also warming to him."

Before replacing Matt Smith in “Doctor Who” in 2013, Capaldi played Henry Appleton in “Fallen Angel,” Mark Jenkins in “Skins,” John Frobisher in “Torchwood,” Peter Healy in “Getting On,” Malcolm Tucker in “The Thick of It” and Randall Brown in “The Hour.” He also played Cardinal Richelieu in “The Musketeers” in 2014.

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