"The fans have lived through so many changes, and this is only a new, different one, not a fearful one. "This is a really exciting time, and 'Doctor Who' represents everything that's exciting about change," Whittaker said. Women played leading roles in 42 percent of TV and digital programs, but lagged far behind in films, where they appeared in leading roles only 27 percent of the time.įor a time-honored and beloved show like "Doctor Who," casting the Doctor as a woman sends an important message about how even iconic characters aren't off-limits to actors who might not have been considered to play them in the past, Whittaker said in the BBC statement. The researchers also found that only 30 percent of all speaking roles in films were filled by female characters, while in scripted series, girls and women represented less than 40 percent of all parts with dialogue. Overall, gender ratios in film and TV skewed heavily male - only 18 percent of the evaluated media had roughly equal representation of male and female characters, according to the study. television and digital series that debuted between Sept. The authors investigated representations of men and women in U.S. And women still have a long way to go before they are featured with the same frequency as men, according to a report published February 2016 by the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment at Annenberg (IDEA) at the University of Southern California. The BBC isn't alone in overcoming resistance to diverse representation in leading roles - in the United States, experts are scrutinizing the entertainment industry for dragging its heels when it comes to casting diversity and inclusion. On YouTube, the trailer has to date received nearly 9,000 likes and about 5,000 dislikes though some commenters declared that it was it "an interesting experiment" and argued that having an actress in the role "would invigorate the show," others pronounced the program "officially ruined," saying that this was "the worst thing the BBC could have done," and that "the BBC is shoving equality down our throats." However, not all "Doctor Who" fans were overjoyed with the show's new direction. So Gallifrey comes back, complete with Claire Bloom and Timothy Dalton. More recently, the currently recurring " Doctor Who" character Missy (Michelle Gomez), who first appeared in 2014 in the episode "Deep Breath," also as a Time Lord, is the latest incarnation of the Doctor's oldest friend and adversary, previously a male Time Lord called the Master. Timothy Dalton has an evil plan to do this that involves a jewel. And in the 2011 episode "The Doctor's Wife," the Doctor reminisces about a fellow Time Lord known as the Corsair, who was often male, but who was also "a very bad girl" when female. In the 2010 episode "The End of Time: Part Two," the newly regenerated 11th Doctor (Matt Smith) first mistakes himself for a woman. Story lines within "Doctor Who" had previously suggested that it was certainly possible for a Time Lord to regenerate as either male or female.
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