{"id":27229,"date":"2012-08-11T10:13:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T09:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=27229"},"modified":"2012-08-13T12:11:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T11:11:26","slug":"doctor-whos-matt-smith-to-stay-for-2-more-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/doctor-whos-matt-smith-to-stay-for-2-more-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who&#8217;s Matt Smith to stay for 2 more years"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27231\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Doctor-Who-Series-7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27231\" title=\"Doctor Who Series 7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Doctor-Who-Series-7-616x410.jpg\" alt=\"Doctor Who Series 7\" width=\"616\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Smith as the Doctor in <em>Doctor Who<\/em> Series 7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Matt Smith has announced that he is expected to remain in the role of the titular TIme Lord on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/tv\/david-tennant-talks-doctor-who-50th-anniversary\/\"><em>Doctor Who<\/em><\/a> until at least 2014, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.co.uk\/news\/doctor-who\/361503-matt-smith-doctor-who\">according to MTV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Moffat has already started bashing out concepts for Series 8, even though Series 7 has yet to air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hasn\u2019t been written yet, but the idea is as brilliant and as mental as you\u2019d expect from Steven,&#8221; confirms Smith. &#8220;So there\u2019s a lot to look forward to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Steven was going to pitch the next season to me not long ago, he said, \u2018Are you ready to cry?\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Doctor Who<\/em>\u00a0Series 7 is coming to BBC One HD later this month.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-27229-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TuHLR9fJl2w&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TuHLR9fJl2w\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TuHLR9fJl2w<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Smith to remain on Doctor Who until at least 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":27231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[143,485,612],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Doctor-Who-Series-7.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}