MUMBAI: The company behind the VFX for the BBC’s popular show Doctor Who 50th anniversary special, ‘Day of the Doctor’ - Milk Visual Effects - has been commissioned by the broadcaster to work on the eighth instalment of the series, starring new Doctor Peter Capaldi.

The company is currently working with BBC to create the VFX for the one-hour Doctor Who Christmas special, ‘The Time of the Doctor’, in which Matt Smith’s Doctor will regenerate into Capaldi’s incoming thirteenth Doctor.
The 50th anniversary broke records on 23 November when it drew an average audience of 10.2 million in the UK and was simulcast in 94 countries and in more than 1500 cinemas across the world.