Moffat: Capaldi Came Close to Staying
The Twelfth Doctor will regenerate in the 2017 Christmas special, but he could have carried on into Chris Chibnall’s debut series.
“It took Peter a long time to make up his mind,” Moffat tells Broadcast in a new interview.
“Chris tried to persuade him to stay [on for Series 11 in 2018].”
He adds: “I knew it was a possibility that he’d leave because Doctors tend to do three years. I thought that he might want to opt out, rather than go through the trauma of a change in command and maybe leaving a year later anyway. But I think he came close to staying.”
