Jodie Whittaker made history in 2017 when she became the first woman to play the Doctor in the long-running British TV show Doctor Who. However, many people don’t know that she almost wasn’t the first ...

Jodie Whittaker almost wasn't the first woman to portray Doctor Who's titular hero, as others were considered three decades prior.

Whittaker's casting is also significant because of Doctor Who's poor track record with its female characters.They tend to be underdeveloped and sometimes scantily clad, traveling as the Doctor's ...

Doctor Who keeps making great strides in diversity. It might have taken over 50 years, but in 2017, the BBC finally cast Jodie Whittaker as the first female Doctor, and Jo Martin's character Ruth ...

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Doctor Who: A Look at How Women's Roles Have Evolved Since The 1960s. As progressive as Doctor Who is, it took a long time for it to employ more women behind the cameras and develop better female ...

Jodie Whittaker will play “The Doctor” in the new season of British sci-fi series “Doctor Who,” making her the first woman to hold the role since the show’s debut in 1963.

Jodie Whittaker is well known as the first woman to play the Doctor in the long-running British sci-fi series Doctor Who, making her debut in 2017. But what many don’t realize is that she almost ...