{"id":306065,"date":"2025-07-31T07:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306065\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T07:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T07:51:17","slug":"ncuti-gatwa-might-come-back-to-doctor-who-to-face-daleks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306065\/","title":{"rendered":"Ncuti Gatwa &#8220;might&#8221; come back to Doctor Who to face Daleks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m002gjb5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The One Show<\/a>, Ncuti Gatwa revealed his one regret after leaving his role as the Fifteenth Doctor in Doctor Who after two series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never got to fight a Dalek,\u201d Gatwa sighed. \u201cDalek or a Cyberman. I mean it\u2019s just the crux of Doctor Who\u2026 So, might do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sonic-Doctor-Who-UNIT-2024-finale-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-132179\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>In an April 2024 interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/doctor-who-ncuti-gatwa-wants-to-face-a-dalek-8636359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, Gatwa stated his ambition for his Doctor to face Daleks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve heard chats about me not ever facing a Dalek. \u201cI\u2019d be so angry if that\u2019s the case! By the time that I\u2019m done with Doctor Who, I better have faced a Dalek.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daleks did appear in Gatwa\u2019s Doctor Who Season Two finale episode The Reality War but it was Time Hotel manager Anita who spied the Third Doctor facing them.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Anita-The-Reality-War-Dalek-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-145001\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Third-Doctor-The-Reality-War-Dalek-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-145000\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>For fans who were sad to see the Fifteenth Doctor <a href=\"https:\/\/cultbox.co.uk\/news\/the-ending-of-the-doctor-who-season-two-finale-was-interesting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regenerate<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/cultbox.co.uk\/news\/doctor-who-the-reality-war-cast-and-bbc-one-airtime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Reality War<\/a>, there\u2019s hope yet that they might see him again someday. In a show about time travel, you never know when a past incarnation of the Doctor may show up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Doctor-Who-TARDIS-Joy-to-the-World-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-138171\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>For now, there is no word on whether or when the BBC will commission <a href=\"https:\/\/cultbox.co.uk\/news\/russell-t-davies-reiterates-uncertainty-about-doctor-who-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">future series<\/a> of the programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On The One Show, Ncuti Gatwa revealed his one regret after leaving his role as the Fifteenth Doctor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-306065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114946761614196651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}