( a Short Film of the Day pick two years ago). Capaldi is also an Oscar-winning filmmaker, for the 1995 short film Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life.
PETER CAPALDI ANNOPUNCED AS DOCXTOR WHO TV
He’s also best known to a lot of us as the extremely foul-mouthed Malcolm Tucker on the British TV show The Thick of It and the feature film spin-off, In the Loop. He had been a rumored frontrunner this week, but some might have still seen him as a long shot due to his age (he’s 55). You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to don’t have to wait for the next Doctor Who Christmas Special to find out who will play the regenerated Twelfth Doctor, as Scottish actor Peter Capaldi was announced for the role live today during a special program on BBC (and in the U.S. If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides.
We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. London time and was broadcast live in the U.S. Capaldi was poised – but clearly vibing with excitement – as he appeared before cheering fans for the first time.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: The BBC announced its replacement for Smith as the titular lead during a live show Sunday that began at 7 p.m.
That won't happen this time around – but Doctor Who fans were already cheering Capaldi on Twitter Sunday.įun fact: Capaldi appeared on an episode of Doctor Who before – in the April 2008 "The Fires of Pompeii" – as the Roman sculptor and merchant Lucius Caecilius.
PETER CAPALDI ANNOPUNCED AS DOCXTOR WHO SERIES
The 55-year-old Scot is a staple of British film and TV, having appeared in the long-running TV series "The Thick of It." His casting marks a return to the more elegant, middle-aged Doctor Who – after Matt Smith's casting as a relative unknown at age 26 stirred controversy among fans (over four years in the TARDIS, they more than embraced the younger, more energetic Smith).īut this regeneration cycle stirred a strong social-media sentiment for a change in the Doctor's gender or race after 50 years of male, white Brits. Doctor Who will next be played by Peter Capaldi, who'd been the odds-on favorite to take the BBC's storied sci-fi character into its 12th generation – and at least a temporary disappointment to the growing voices who'd hoped the next Time Lord would be a woman or a minority.
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