Prince William Strolling Across the TARDIS Set Is a Good Reminder That ‘Physician Who’ Is Not Lifeless But

Doctor Who‘s peculiar limbo goes to stay round for a great whereas but, it appears, as no one is too keen to definitively put a degree to the present’s future past a general, hopeful desire that someday it would return. That’s meant that ever for the reason that present’s bizarro mess of a season finale earlier this year, Physician Who followers have been left clinging to scraps to point that the present is just not staring down the Dalek raygun barrel of complete extermination. The most recent scrap? His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales.

Effectively, principally the set he’s standing on. However Prince William was no less than the avenue to remind us that that set—an important one certainly at that, the most recent TARDIS console room—continues to be prepared and accessible for filming.

Radio Times stories that Prince William just lately visited Dangerous Wolf Studios in Cardiff, the place Physician Who has been filmed lately, in his capability because the president of the British Academy of Tv and Movie Arts, a place the Prince of Wales has held since 2010. Photos of the royal go to have been launched at this time, together with the information that Prince William recorded a message on the studio that was launched throughout tonight’s BAFTA Cymru Awards ceremony (the place Who showrunner Russell T Davies accepted an award for Excellent Contribution to Tv), selling the native movie and tv trade in Wales… which in fact included British royalty stepping contained in the TARDIS.

Placing apart Physician Who‘s personal storied historical past with the royal household—together with that point the present practically dropped a Titanic-shaped starship on high of Buckingham Palace (after which really did, in an alternate timeline)—the information right here is generally heartening to followers nonetheless ready to listen to extra definitive information concerning the present’s future, with the BBC and Disney alike remaining vaguely noncommittal however hopeful about an eventual return to adventures in time and house. And that information is that merely the TARDIS set itself, one of the necessary standing units of the collection, is, effectively, nonetheless standing.

There had been some errant rumors that the set may very well be probably damaged down—i.e., dismantling the set completely to open up the occupied studio house for different units—if Physician Who wasn’t planning a return any time soon (or in any respect). However the truth that the set has no less than been maintained, even when just for the occasional go to, does no less than point out Physician Who‘s on-screen future isn’t completely completed and dusted. It leaves followers in just about the identical place they’ve been for the reason that broadcast of “The Actuality Battle”—eying a 2027 return on the earliest, lowering in likeliness the longer it goes with out the BBC making any announcement—however a glimmer of hope is healthier than no hope in any respect.

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