Peter Capaldi is the twelfth actor to play the character. On British TV, being a Doctor is equivalent to being James Bond in the movies.

The viewer expects him to head to the Tardis or face a space-time threat, but Capaldi only drives, smiles without smiling, and watches without looking. Their biggest mystery is not the crimes they solve, but how they manage to make each new series of a genre so codified, manipulated, exploited, remasticated, and with more commonplaces than there are flowers in April and May seem new and bold. As a viewer addicted to British police films, I sometimes think that they cross the border of sleight of hand and enter that of magic, says the writer of the book. It may not be a coincidence that Jim Loach, who directed four episodes of the TV series Grantchester, where we met Carey Mulligan, the loneliness epidemic and the aging population. The geostrategic insignificance of the UK in a multipolar world.