Doctor Who is a television movie.
Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963 . The programme originally ran from 1963 to 1989 . There was an unsuccessful attempt to revive regular production in 1996 with a backdoor pilot , in the form of a television film titled Doctor Who . Doctor Who , also referred to as Doctor Who : The Movie to distinguish it from the television series of the same name , is a British-American-Canadian television film continuing the British science fiction television series Doctor Who . Matt Smith (actor) . He is best known for his role as the Eleventh Doctor in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who , for which he received a BAFTA Award nomination in 2011 .