The boss of Doctor Who Russell T Davies retaliated to the criticisms that the show is too “awake”, saying that he does not have time for complaints of “online warriors”.
The longtime BBC science fiction program returned last week with Ncuti Gatwa winning his role as a doctor alongside the new Varada Sethu as a last companion, marking the first time that the Tardis team was made up of non-white actors.
Davies told BBC Radio 2: “Someone always raises questions of diversity. And there are online warriors who accuse us of diversity and unlocking and involving messages and problems.
“And I have no time for that. I have no second to bear (because what you could call diversity, I just call an open door.”
Asked on radio 2 Doctor Who: 20 Secrets of 20 years old If he writes such themes in the show consciously, the Welshman replied: “I don’t even know if it’s aware. It’s life, and I think it’s the only way to write.”
Davies, who also wrote Crazy Queer television dramas as a folk and it was a sin, added that it thought it was more difficult to write using “a narrow window” of references.
“Why do you limit yourself? Why breathe exhaust fumes? Why be toxic? Come here where is life, light and air and sound.”
Sethu, who made his debut last week as a new companion of the character of Gatwa, Belinda Chandra, also recently discussed the claims around the “Bordess” perceived of the show, suggesting that it meant that it was on the right track.
“There were some” Doctor Woke “(comments) or something else,” she said Radio time. “But I just think we do the right thing if we get comments like that.”
She continued: “The show just means inclusive, progressive, and that you care about people. And, as far as I know, the heart of the doctor who is kindness, love and does the right thing.”
Addressing the same subject, Gatwa declared to Radio time That their collaboration represented “progress, in terms of which we reflect the societies in which we live”.
“It’s something incredible that the media can do, and that’s what it does,” he added.
“But it’s also exciting to expect a day when (having non -white tracks) is not something enormous.”
Doctor Who was broadcast for the first time on the BBC in 1963, depicted by William Hartnell, and the show has undergone many changes in recent years.
The main writer Chris Chiball presented Jodie Whittaker as the first woman doctor in 2017, before Davies chose Gatwa to appear as the first star of the 2023 black series.
There have been unconfirmed reports in recent weeks that Gatwa should leave and that the show could be faced with the ax. The BBC said that any decision on a new series would be made after the end of the current series.
