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

Doctor Who‘s peculiar limbo goes to stay round for a superb 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 is going to 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 will not be staring down the Dalek raygun barrel of whole extermination. The newest scrap? His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales.

Properly, principally the set he’s standing on. However Prince William was at the least the avenue to remind us that that set—an important one certainly at that, the most recent TARDIS console room—remains to be prepared and obtainable for filming.

Radio Times stories that Prince William lately visited Unhealthy Wolf Studios in Cardiff, the place Physician Who has been filmed in recent times, 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. Footage of the royal go to had been launched in the present day, 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 after all 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 almost dropped a Titanic-shaped starship on prime of Buckingham Palace (after which truly did, in an alternate timeline)—the information right here is usually heartening to followers nonetheless ready to listen to extra definitive information in regards to 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, probably the most vital standing units of the collection, is, nicely, nonetheless standing.

There had been some errant rumors that the set may very well be doubtlessly 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 at the least been maintained, even when just for the occasional go to, does at the least point out Physician Who‘s on-screen future isn’t completely carried out 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, reducing 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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