“That’s the lovely thing about Doctor Who, it keeps changing.”

We’ve all just about got used to the idea of Steven Moffat leaving Doctor Who as showrunner, but we finally know what The Doctor himself thinks of Chris Chibnall’s appointment.
Peter Capaldi says that it would be “very exciting” to see what the Broadchurch writer does with the BBC sci-fi staple.

“I think Chris is a wonderful writer, so that’s the exciting thing about Doctor Who — I don’t really know what he’s going to do with it,” he told Radio Times. “It’s going to be different and he’ll take it in a direction that is his… and that’ll be very exciting.

“That’s the lovely thing about Doctor Who, it keeps changing. Steven’s been fabulous but it will be very exciting to see what Chris does.” Chibnall’s first full Doctor Who series will arrive in 2018, after Moffat bows out with series 10 next year.
Moffat has been at the helm of Doctor Who since 2010, and in that time introduced Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi as incarnations of The Doctor.

Chris Chibnall’s long association with Doctor Who began with writing 2007’s ’42’, a base under siege story set in real time. He would become a continuing presence under showrunners Russell T Davies and later Moffat, most recently writing ‘The Power of Three’ in 2013.