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Mark Millar Reveals That A "Huge Name" Offered To Showrun Doctor Who And Cast Ben Daniels In The Role In 2018

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Oct 15, 2025
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2018 was arguably the year Doctor Who died, as Jody Whittaker was cast as the role, turning the Time Lord, who had always been male, into a woman to virtue signal to the modern audience the BBC wanted to attain. While this changed the course of Doctor Who to drop in ratings drastically over the next few years, fans are lamenting what might have been aft…

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