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"Steven Moffat has teased big changes in Doctor Who&amp;#039;s eighth series. The show&amp;#039;s head writer spoke about Peter Capaldi&amp;#039;s casting at Hay Festival, saying that the new Doctor will bring about the show&amp;#039;s biggest changes since 2005.  He said: &amp;quot;We haven&amp;#039;t made much of change to Doctor Who since it came back in 2005. It&amp;#039;s been the same show. It&amp;#039;s maybe amped some things up and lowered some other things, but it&amp;#039;s basically the same. &amp;quot;I just felt it needs to be a bit more different now. It&amp;#039;s needs to be surprising again!&amp;quot; he said of his decision to cast an older actor. Moffat also said that casting a &amp;quot;handsome, yet quirky, young man with entertaining hair&amp;quot; would have resulted in the long-running sci-fi series becoming too formulaic.   &amp;quot;It would have just exposed the formula,&amp;quot; he claimed. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;d have found somebody great and people would have liked him, but the show would have just become that little bit more ordinary.&amp;quot; Capaldi, 56, replaced Matt Smith as The Doctor in the final scene of last year&amp;#039;s Christmas special.  Last week, a teaser trailer for the new series was released, confirming that Capaldi&amp;#039;s first full series in the role will begin in August. Watch Matt Smith&amp;#039;s regenerate into Peter Capaldi below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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