'The Blossomiest Blossom' – it is goodnight from her, and goodnight from me
Ok, that’s a wrap from me. The comments will be open for a little while yet. Let me just leave you with some final words from Jodie Whittaker at the premiere of The Power of the Doctor about her time on the show:
It’s a really big deal to me that where people work is a happy space. And we couldn’t have asked for a happier space. We were around an extraordinary crew who made us laugh every day, who worked so hard in every department, and then the cast, everybody that came on put heart and soul into it.
But I think the main thing is I got to hang out with [Mandip Gill] every day. And I don’t get to do that now. It was such a joy. You can’t describe what it’s like knowing you’re in the best time of your life. Like it’s such a weird thing. And we knew it. We knew it from the first week of filming. It’s been the most special time, I’m not even slightly embarrassed about it, it’s been the most special time. And I got to do it side by side with friends and made friends for life.
This family grows, and it’ll be bigger than us, and it’ll go on, and Ncuti will be extraordinary, and he will bring an audience that we haven’t reached, and his performance will be so magical, and now we get to sit back and enjoy it as the fans that we can be now, knowing that whatever is to come, we were once a part of that.
Thank you so much for joining me on the live blog, I really appreciate the opportunity and the time people spend reading it, and I will see you again somewhere on the Guardian website soon.
Also fairplay to the people at the BBC and the Radio Times for being committed to keeping details secret. At one point this week the Radio Times had a delightfully ambiguously titled article: Doctor Who stars reveal how Sylvester McCoy and Peter Davison reacted to return
In it, Janet Fielding said:
I’ve seen Peter, and I don’t think gloating is a very attractive thing to do, but there are times when you just have to. We are great mates. But we do spend a lot of time trying to take the mickey out of each other.
And Sophie Aldred said:
Sylvester was delighted — he was one of the first people to text me. He’s an emoji king, so there were loads of little symbols and ‘Congratulations, I can’t wait to see it’.
Neither let it slip how it was going to play out.
