Do you still love Dr Who?

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Dr Who is probably the United Kingdom’s most iconic show and even a character as big as James Bond as far as how the rest of the world sees us. It got rather tired and was cancelled around the year of 2000 as the Dr’s reincarnations were rather camp and out of touch in the new millennium and people stopped watching. An old single man hanging around a phone box looking for young people to accompany him around the universe was always pretty suspicious. I always presumed he was an old gay man past his cottaging and glory-hole days on Gallifrey and cast out into the universe in disgrace. The Doctor returned through the brilliant Christopher Ecclestone in 2005 and revived the series to dramatic effect and became the young Sci Fi adult show for all the family it was meant to be and loved around the world. Two young handsome geeky charismatic actors in David Tennant and Matt Smith took it on but then Peter Capaldi (that old grey man hanging around phone boxes I was talking about) took it on and back to the black & white 1950s. With the regeneration of the series it’s become very politically correct to draw that larger audience. We now have a female Doctor Who in the latest series and lots of gay and ethnic characters. The openly gay producers and writers have been almost subversive in their need to stuff the show with minorities and gay characters. Of course the universe is full of exactly that and the great beyond not dominated by white men but if you force these things you can lose your audiences. It has become a box ticking exercise and no surprise the first of the new series included a transgender character. There are less than 10,000 trans people in the England yet it feels like feature in every TV show here.