'Doctor Who' new: it was Peter Capaldi.

Scottish actor named the new star of the British Franchise Doctor Who Sci-Fi on Sunday during a live broadcast on BBC America. He will replace Matt Smith departing the time police box TARDIS traveling time will end later this year.

"It is wonderful to not keep this secret anymore," Capaldi, a lifelong fan of the show said. "I have not played since I was nine doctors in the playground".

Capaldi, 55, became the 12th person to play the Doctor since the show's cult out in 1963 with William Hartnell and Lord for four from a major producer of medical Russell t Davies reboot it. In 2005, following Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Smith.

Executive producer Steven Moffat has considered Dr. Capaldi, when they were cast 11 "has come at the right time for the right people to play it," he said.

"We all have the same idea and it was a very different," Moffat added, when he and his team made a video with Capaldi "Everyone saw it and was like, 'the Doctor.".

American audiences most recently saw Capaldi is a World Health Organization doctor in the film World War Z, and he also had a role in the upcoming big screen five acres in the fall of next year, and Maleficent.

Half-hour live special on BBC America hosted by British television Zoe Ball, who is also featured in the cast, including Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor (1981-1984).

"In that way, it is the longest in TV It was during the storm when you do it and it would go after "Davison, 10, daughter, married Dr. Tennant said.

Smith recalls the first to be met with a backlash against his casting. But I finally came around for him to be a doctor.

"I have a piece like this," he said, "I loved it, I will miss it. But when you have to go, you gotta go. ".

Doctor Who has been hit in the UK, but recently doctors have been following this big in the United States is showing a great series on BBC America.

Capaldi will make his first appearance in the Doctor Who Christmas special at the end of 2013, and it was the last of Smith as Doctor Who fans will get to see him again. But when star Jenna Coleman Smith, John Hurt and Tennant in the 50th anniversary special airing on November 23.

The main reason the series remained in popular culture around the world is because I have been watching it Capaldi said: "Everyone of us is a doctor at all. The doctor. ".

'Doctor Who' new: it was Peter Capaldi.