Peter Capaldi, The New DOCTOR!

Today, the BBC put out a live special called Doctor Who: The Next Doctor. The whole point of this half-an-hour show was to introduce the actor playing the twelfth incarnation of the famous time-lord to the world. And, the new doctor is...

Peter Capaldi, star of the BBC's The Thick of it.

"I had my phone on silent, so I missed the call", Capaldi on the moment he found out he was the Doctor!

"The casting of it made me really excited" -Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith, on the casting of the New Doctor.