The Doctor (Doctor Who) Time Lords a fixed number of twelve regenerations, meaning that every Time Lord had a total of thirteen incarnations including the original. The plot of "The Time of the Doctor" involves the Doctor receiving a new cycle of regenerations from the Time Lords before his expected demise, triggering the regeneration into the Twelfth Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi. The origins of the programme were explored in the docudrama "An Adventure in Space and Time" as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of "Doctor Who", which starred David Bradley as William Hartnell. Although Time Lords resemble humans, their physiology differs in
Doctor Who (series 12) her second series as the Thirteenth Doctor, the most recent incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in their TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside. The series also stars Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill as the Doctor's travelling companions, Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair and Yasmin Khan, respectively. The twelfth series was originally reported to be broadcast in late 2019 by "Starburst"; instead, the BBC confirmed after the eleventh series' finale that the series will premiere in early 2020. Ed Hime is set to write an