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Who’s next: Jodie Whittaker 1st female star of ‘Doctor Who’

If you think the doctor being a woman is pandering or catering to a certain demographic, what does that make 13 men? #DoctorWho #doctor13 pic.twitter.com/7ldPZW...
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LONDON   — The BBC says Jodie Whittaker is the next star of the long-running science fiction series “Doctor Who” — the first woman to take the title role.

Whittaker, who starred in detective drama “Broadchurch,” will replace Scottish actor Peter Capaldi.

Whittaker is the 13th incarnation of the Doctor, a galaxy-hopping Time Lord who travels in the Tardis, a time machine shaped like an old-fashioned British police telephone booth.

The 54-year-old program has a firm place in Britain’s cultural life, and the announcement was made during a live television broadcast Sunday after the Wimbledon men’s tennis final.

“Doctor Who” was first broadcast in 1963. Its central character can travel across space or time and can regenerate into new bodies — allowing for endless recasting of the role.

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