Jodie Whittaker becomes the first female 'Doctor Who' lead!

The 13th regeneration avatar of the Time Lord on Doctor Who, the successor to Peter Capaldi, has been revealed and it's a woman!

So the new showrunner, Chris Chibnall, has brought one of his own as the new Time Lord.

Writer-producer Steven Moffat had turned The Master, one of many nemeses of the Doctor, a woman in the form of Missy. In its one-minute clip released on Sunday, BBC reveals Jodie Whittaker of Broadchurch fame holding the key of the TARDIS.

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It was long been speculated and asked of the departing showrunner Steven Moffat to make the Doctor a woman. He hinted at the possibility in the episode titled 'World Enough and Time' of the recently concluded season. 

Now that Chibnall has taken over, in the 54-year-run of the show, Whittaker is the first female Doctor.

Whittaker, 34, has worked with Chibnall in his critically acclaimed, popular series Broadchurch, alongside David Tennant, who played the 10th Doctor when Russell T Davis was the showrunner.

Capaldi took the charge of TARDIS from Matt Smith in 2013 and later in 2017, announced his exit from the show along with Moffat after the end of the 10th season of the 2005 revival.

Capaldi will be seen as the Time Lord for the last time in the Christmas special episode, along with David Bradley as the first Doctor. This episode will show the regeneration.

Earlier in the year, Pearl Mackie was tapped in to play the first openly gay companion of the Doctor in the sci-fi adventure series.