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.

Live blog: Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

19:02: Introduction to the history of the Doctor plays, clips from all of the Doctors shown. Big highlight on the Daleks, here.

19:04 Host, Zoe Ball, walks out, introduces the show. Promises familiar faces from the show.

19:05: News clips concerning Smith's departure from the show played.

19:06: Guests, Peter Davidson, Liza Tarbuck, Daniel Roche introduced.

19:07: They discuss memories of the show.

19:09 Tarbuck's favourite Doctor, Jon Pertwee; Roche's is David Tennant; Peter Davidson, the fifth Doctor Himslef, chooses Patrick Troughton as his favourite.

19:11: "When you gotta go, you gotta go." Smith on his departure from the show, in a special interview. Also, less hair.

19:12: Origins of the Bow-Tie discussed, originally, Moffat and more creative staff weren't too keen on it.

19:13: "Good Luck, buddy. You're gonna have to work hard." also, "I think he's great." Smith on the new Doctor.

19:14; "Gonna be hard to top", Smith on the role of the Doctor.

19:16: Professor Stephen Hawkings turns up during a montage of interviews about the Doctor.

19:18: Also, professor Brian Cox.

19:19; And, Bruno Tonioli, did not expect that.

19:20: Bernard Cribbins and Rufus Hound join the show, Hound wearing a "Keep calm and regenerate" shirt.

19:23: "Absolutely Barking mad.. I'm going to miss that" Head writer, Steven Moffat on Matt Smith's portrayal of the time-lord.

19:24: "The Doctor has to be british!" Dancer, Bruno Tonolio.

19:25: "It would make a difference if the Doctor was a woman, with a male assistant" Professor Stephen Hawkings.

19:25 Three Words to describe the new doctor "Different form Matt"

19:26: Peter Capaldi!

The Twelfth Doctor to be revealed officially on live BBC broadcast on Sunday!

This Sunday at 7PM live on the BBC, the identity of the actor playing the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor will be revealed to the world. I'm very excited for this, so I'll be watching. Since I know other people will be feeling the same way about it, for America, the times are 11 AM PDT and 2 PM EDT.

It should be simple to work out what time it'll be in your area if you're out of the UK or US, just search for the time differences between where you are and the UK and you'll know. Although, I do suggest sticking to Twitter, since it'll be mentioned a lot as it happens on there.

Host of the special, Zoe Ball, will be joined by head writer Steven Moffat; 11th Doctor, Matt Smith and the actor ( or possibly actress ) set to portray the next Doctor.

I'm very, very excited for this and also impressed that the BBC have managed to keep this information under wraps until now, and I hope it can stay that way until the big moment on sunday.

There's also said to be some sort of announcement at 12 midnight tonight ( UK time ), but it's suspected it'll just be what I've written about here in this post.

Matt Smith quits Doctor Who

The BBC had some big Doctor Who news that they apparently gave to a few news sites to release later today, some of which were the Mail and the Sunday express it seems. It was thought we'd be getting this big news at midnight but it's out now...

Now, I could've named this post "OH GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" but that's not too professional. Smith is the actor who really made me love Doctor Who, and, in my opinion, he's the best of all the doctors. Good luck to him in his next projects, but he will be missed on the show.