Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman share an on-screen attraction. Credit: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire
The man who first brought Doctor Who to British screens has criticised the current series for being too sexy.
Waris Hussein, who directed the first episodes of the long-running science fiction show when it began in 1963, said he has been unimpressed by Jenna-Louise Coleman's character's romantic relationship with Matt Smith's version of the Time Lord.
"There is an element now, and I know we're living in a different era, of sexuality that has crept in," he told BBC Radio 4's The Reunion.
"The intriguing thing about the original person was that you never quite knew about him and there was a mystery and an unavailability about him," he added. "Now we've just had a recent rebirth and another girl has joined us, a companion, she actually snogged him."
'Biggest, best, and most exciting year' for Doctor Who
Doctor Who fans can look forward to the "biggest, best, most inventive and most exciting year for the show", actor Matt Smith said.
The first episode of the new series, which screens next month, will see the timelord tear up the side of the Shard on a motorbike.
BBC handout photo of Doctor Who, played by Matt Smith, and his newest companion Clara Oswald, played by Jenna-Louise Coleman Credit: BBC
A special 3D anniversary show will be broadcast in November, which newest companion Jenna-Louise Coleman says, will pay "homage to the last 50 years of the show."
Giving nothing away, Matt Smith said: "I think it's hilarious, I think it's epic and I think it's fast and I'm telling you nothing more but you will not be disappointed."
Doctor Who star Matt Smith is introducing poetry to a new generation. The actor is to narrate a children's TV show designed to encourage the joys of literacy in youngsters.
Other names recruited for readings on Disney Junior UK's A Poem Is include Britain's Got Talent judge David Walliams and Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery. Smith will read Jack Prelutsky's Once They All Believed In Dragons.
He will take part in the second series of A Poem Is, which starts on April 30, along with Twenty Twelve star Jessica Hynes and veteran actor Richard Briers. Their words will be set to scenes from classic animations.
