Peter Capaldi QUITS Doctor Who   a month after saying he wants to stay  for a long time
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Date: 31/01/2017

Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi has quit the BBC1 show after three years of playing the Time Lord.

He revealed tonight during a BBC Radio 2 interview with Jo Wiley that he'll be stepping down at Christmas 2017.
The 58-year-old star of the cult programme confirmed the news, while telling fans not to panic about his departure just yet.

"I suppose the big thing about [the new series] is it'll be my last," he revealed to a taken-aback Jo.
"This'll be the end for me. I feel sad - I love Doctor Who. It's a fantastic programme to work on. It's been a huge pleasure to work with... a family, I can't praise the people I work with more highly.

"I've never worked the same job for three years, and I feel like now is the right time to move on. [But] I'll still be the Doctor for a while."

The BBC asked him to stay on despite his contract running out, but Peter said he wasn't sure how long he could continue to "give his best" to the role.
Peter's highlights as the Doctor include his anti-war speech in The Zygon Inversion, and his solo appearance in the one-hander, Heaven Sent. The monsters he has fought include old foe the Daleks, Davros, Cybermen and Zygons, plus new monsters like the Veil.

Capaldi, 58, took a break along with the show last year, which returns for its 10th series since the reboot on Easter Saturday.

Paying tribute to Capaldi, Moffat said: "For years before I ever imagined being involved in Doctor Who, or had ever met the man, I wanted to work with Peter Capaldi. I could not have imagined that one day we'd be standing on the TARDIS together. Like Peter, I'm facing up to leaving the best job I'll ever have, but knowing I do so in the company of the best, and kindest and cleverest of men, makes the saddest of endings a little sweeter.
"But hey, it's a long way from over. Peter's amazing, fiery, turbulent Doctor is still fighting the good fight, and his greatest adventures are yet to come. Monsters of the universe, be on your guard - Capaldi's not done with you yet."

The Doctor will be joined by new companion Pearl Mackie in the new series, which also features guest appearances from David Suchet, Matt Lucas and Michelle Gomez.

BBC content director Charlotte Moore said: "Peter Capaldi will always be a very special Doctor to me; his adventures through time and space started just as I arrived on BBC1. He has been a tremendous Doctor who has brought his own unique wisdom and charisma to the role."
The regeneration into the 13th Doctor – to be cast by new showrunner Chris Chibnall – will take place at Christmas.

It comes just a month after Peter admitted he won't fill the famous character's boots forever - but that he'd like to for a long time.

The Scottish actor took on the role of the Twelfth Doctor in 2013. But without a series being aired this year, fans of the sci-fi show haven't seen Capaldi on screen for almost a whole year.

Ahead of his return last Christmas Day, the actor appeared on The Andrew Marr Show to talk about his life as the Time Lord.
He said: "My kind of attitude about it is that I didn't want it to change my life much, but it does. But in as much as my private life goes, it remains much the same.

"But when I go out into the world, I can't, you know I don't want to escape the idea that I'm Doctor Who, and it's finite - I won't be Doctor Who forever, so there will be a day when people don't come and say hello."

When he was asked when that would be, he replied: "Oh, not for a long time, I hope."
Last year's epic Christmas special was jam-packed with everything we'd hoped for, from a jar containing a floating brain to the highly-anticipated return of Nardole [Matt Lucas] to the arrival of a masked superhero.

Set in New York, the Doctor and Nardole linked up with an investigative masked vigilante The Ghost after brain-swapping aliens attacked the Earth.
Explaining what the episode, titled The Return of Doctor Mysterio, was all about, writer Steven Moffat said: "It's about a little boy who is accidentally given superpowers and happens to be a comic book fan, so he decides he should be a superhero in his adult years."

Moffat then went on to reveal that this may be the last ever Christmas special he writes.

Having penned the series since 2010, he is now planning to step down from the role of chief writer.