{"id":33391,"date":"2022-01-28T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/?p=33391"},"modified":"2022-01-27T16:57:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T16:57:58","slug":"ben-miller-would-love-to-be-the-new-doctor-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/2022\/01\/28\/ben-miller-would-love-to-be-the-new-doctor-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Miller Would “Love to be the New Doctor Who”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Comedian and actor, Ben Miller, has confirmed that of course he’d love to play the Fourteenth Doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, it’s a tale as old as time: actor would like work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Miller’s a good shout for the next Doctor, he’s been in Doctor Who<\/em> before, and he seems an all-round decent chap, so yes, we pay attention when he says he’d like to play the Time Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ben appeared on the chat show, Steph’s Packed Lunch<\/em>, and when the presenter asked whether new\/old showrunner, Russell T Davies, had phoned him, Miller replied<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Do you\u00a0know what? I would\u00a0love that as well. [Mr Davies] has changed his number for some reason. Yeah, and I’ve got a restraining order. So maybe it’s made the casting process a little bit tricky.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He appeared in Robot of Sherwood<\/em> playing the Sheriff of Nottingham opposite Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But many will know Ben from Death in Paradise, <\/em>the UK version of Professor T<\/em>, Paddington II<\/em>, Bridgerton<\/em>, and, with Alexander Armstrong (The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe<\/em>), The Armstrong and Miller Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jodie Whittaker, obviously, still has three episodes of her tenure as the Thirteenth Doctor left, airing throughout 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, we’re sure he’d make a great Doctor. He’d make a fab Master too though…<\/p>\n

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