LONDON, July 16 (Xinhua) -- BBC's "Doctor Who," the world's longest-running science-fiction drama, will have its first female lead, the British TV network announced Sunday.
British actress Jodie Whittaker, 35, star of the British crime drama "Broadchurch," will become the 13th Time Lord called "the Doctor," an extraterrestrial being from the planet Gallifrey.
"It feels completely overwhelming; as a feminist, as a woman, as an actor, as a human, as someone who wants to continually push themselves and challenge themselves, and not be boxed in by what you're told you can and can't be," a BBC report quoted Whittaker as saying.
The TV series began on Nov. 23, 1963, and was revived in 2005 after 16 years off the screen. The drama has been named TV's longest-running sci-fi show, according to the Guinness Book of Records.
