I'm Cara Santa Maria for Wired

with Jenna Coleman, Matt Smith,

and Steven Moffat from Doctor Who.

Thanks so much for being here guys.

Thanks for having us. Pleasure.

So walking away from the role as The Doctor

you've been doing it now for four year?

Yes. And what's next for you?

Gosh, I don't know, I'm not even contemplating that yet.

I wanna make the last episode

one of the best that we've ever made

and really sign off with a bang and a wallop.

And I want to enjoy that moment.

And then we've got the 50th anniversary

coming up in November.

So there's a lot of Who stuff

that will take me up till Christmas.

And then after that I'm just going back

to being lowly and unemployed.

(all laugh)

It's the truth. Barren, hard up Cinderella,

I'm telling you.

(all laugh)

What's it been like working with Matt

and what's next after Matt is gone?

I mean, are you thinking about that right now?

Well it's genuinely, honestly, been an absolute joy

working with Matt for these four years.

Absolutely extraordinary.

He's become a very very good friend

and I don't think I've ever worked with an actor who is,

I think you'd agree, Jenna, a better company leader.

So it's been an absolute joy working with him

and we're heartbroken that he's dumping us.

Dumping us. I know, I've been dumped.

Jilting us. I feel dumped, Matt.

(Cara laughs)

I think I started something.

(all laugh)

Oh no, you didn't start it.

This has been ongoing. Going on for a while.

You're leaving us!

So, Jenna, you've been with the show for one year now.

You have a whole new Doctor

that you're gonna be introducing.

The swine. I will have.

But not yet.

Not yet, that's true.

It's that tender moment in the relationship

where you're between boyfriends.

Oh, that's so tough.

That's so tough. I've already got

the other one lined up.

(all laugh)

That's a lot of responsibility though, isn't it?

To introduce a new Doctor to adoring fans.

To say farewell

to the last. Yeah that's what we're

going to focus on first.

And, you know, Steven is beginning to write the episode.

And we just wanna make sure it's gonna be

one of the biggest and the best and the most fitting

tribute to the 11th Doctor.

One of the joys of Doctor Who, in a strange way,

is you get to kill him occasionally.

(Cara laughs)

It does sort of add to the show.

But you can do a grand finale, a magnificent death,

and then he just gets up and says, Right,

let's all start at the beginning again.

[Cara] Yeah.

[Steven] That's kind of exciting.

(glass shatters)

Legs, I've still got legs, good.

And it's been happening year after year after year.

That's what's amazing about it, you know?

And actually for the show it galvanizes it again.

It sort of reawakens it somehow, and I think,

and then I'll be a fanboy.

It will be very hard to watch.

You will remain The Doctor.

All the other Doctors have remained The Doctor.

You've met David.

Has he given it up in any sense at all?

[Matt] Not really, no.

[Steven] No, he thinks he's the Doctor.

Peter Davison still thinks he's The Doctor.

They are tolerant enough

to watch these imposters on the television

but Peter and David both still think they're The Doctor

which must make Sunday lunches around them

around the Tennants-- Seriously?

Must be really tense. You're going to be

joining that table soon.

Exactly. Arguing about

who sits at the head.

I'll be that guy who was Doctor Who once.

(all laugh)

So have you guys watched the whole back catalogue?

I mean how many hours,

how many years? We did this in an interview!

We found out today, if you watch the whole of Doctor Who

every episode it would be

369 hours and 48 minutes. 379 hours and 12 minutes.

But they don't all still exist.

Many of them were wiped.

So we've lost a lot of the stuff from the 60s

which is tragic.

Do you know how many times

the Daleks have said exterminate in the whole back--

[Steven] Do you actually know this?

[Jenna] Yeah we know.

Oh my God you have--

479.

Exterminate.

Only 479? Well that's wrong.

Because I'm writing at the moment.

(all laugh)

Aw, you'll give spoilers.

That seems like a low number.

Do you know what,

that's what I thought. Are you used to

people saying, Exterminate? No, I just,

for a show that's been on for so long

50 years, yeah. and this iconic kind of

character, I guess you could call them?

[Matt] Yeah, totally a character.

They don't appear in that many stories.

That's true, that's true, but we think of them

as being so iconic to the series

They're not known for their big speeches.

(Cara laughs)

A big speech from a Dalek is pretty intolerable.

Yeah, you're going, Just kill him, Doctor,

at that point.

I think they just want to kill everything else

because everything else can speak faster.

I'm sick of it, I'm sick of it, I'm always

trying to tell a joke, they get there first,

let's exterminate the the species.