If rumours are to be believed, we could have a pretty big name in the hotseat as the time-travelling Doctor.
HUGH Grant could be the next Doctor WHO. See what we did there, see?
Anyway, rumours are rife that the famed 61-year-old is in open discussions with the BBC about taking over the Time Lord mantle from current actor Jodie Whittaker. Should the discussions come to fruition, Grant would be the 14th actor to take on the famed sci-fi role.
'It's A Sin' and former 'Doctor Who' enthusiast, writer and producer Russell T. Davies will return for the upcoming season as showrunner. This Christmas is expected to be Whittaker's final hurrah as the first female version of the Doctor, having picked up the sonic screwdriver in 2017.
And that's not all Davies has planned for the franchise, as a source claims that the screenwriter envisions a "Marvel-like" way of expanding the sci-fi series, with potential spin-offs of other characters also in the works.
This year will mark the show's 60th anniversary, and so the BBC are going to need a big name to take over the helm, right? We could certainly see Hugh Grant as Doctor Who, an actor who doesn't shy away from playing a blubbering unlucky-in-love fool ('Notting Hill') or a campy villain out to get a bear who loves marmalade sandwiches ('Paddington 2').
Following a pretty long pause on the majority of his acting career from the mid-2000s until the late 2010s, Grant has enjoyed a huge resurgence in his acting pursuits in the past couple of years. 'The Undoing' was his first big splash back onto our TV screens in 2020, followed by two separate appearances in Charlie Brooker's Netflix satires 'Death To 2020' and 'Death To 2021'.
He'll next appear in the action romp 'Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre', and he's also lined up for the live-action adaptation of 'Dungeons & Dragons'.
