Peter Capaldi's character has been killed off in 'The Musketeers'.
The actor's time-consuming new role as the titular Time Lord in 'Doctor Who' has meant his Cardinal Richelieu character has had to be axed from the BBC One period drama, with Marc Warren replacing him as a brand new villain.
Since writers were unaware of Peter's high-profile new job at the time of filming the first series of 'The Musketeers', the Cardinal wasn't given a proper send-off during his final episode.
Tom Burke, who stars as Athos, told Radio Times magazine: "Come the next series, the Cardinal will be dead. He'll just be gone.
"We're all like, 'Where's the Cardinal? Oh he's dead.' It's a great example of economic storytelling. Their new nemesis will be Rochefort, who's played by Marc Warren."
It was recently confirmed that 'Mad Dogs' star Marc had joined the cast as the Comte De Rochefort, a "dashing and persuasive aristocrat with a talent for sword fighting and a taste for adventure", but Cardinal Richelieu's fate was unknown at the time.
Filming for the second series has already begun in Prague, and Tom's fellow Musketeers Luke Pasqualino, Howard Charles and Santiago Cabrera are all returning to the programme.

Meryl Streep "hates" inviting people to awards ceremonies.
The 64-year-old actress - who has been nominated for an Oscar 18 times and won three of the coveted statuettes - picked up the 14th annual Monte Cristo Award by the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center for her "artistic commitment to excellence and accomplishment" in the arts in New York on Monday (21.04.14), and though he was there to support her, her husband Don Gummer insisted he no longer gets "excited" when his wife wins a prize.
Asked if he gets sick of watching her pick up honours, Don told the New York Daily News newspaper's Confidenti@l column: "Not sick, I just don't get excited. She just always hates asking people or having people asked to come support her. She gets tired of it ... after a while what can they say."
Don also admitted he and his wife - who have been married for 37 years and have children Henry Wolfe, 34; Mamie, 30; Grace, 27; and Louisa, 22, together - squabble over household chores, and a regular argument between them is whether to "wash the dishes or put them in the dishwasher."
Meryl was presented with the accolade by actor Joe Grifasi, who told the audience - which included Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas - about a time he and the actress went to a beach several years ago.
They swam out to a rock and she told him she wanted to be married with children by the time she was 35.
And in her acceptance speech, Meryl also recalled the incident, saying: "Thank you to my husband for my four children that I dreamed up on that rock on the beach that day. He came along thank God."
And the 'Devil Wears Prada' star also received a comical musical tribute from songwriting duo Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, who reworked 'Love is an Open Door' from 'Frozen' to be about Meryl.
A source said: "It was about how much they love Meryl and her movies and the chorus was, 'We want to be Meryl Streep.' At the end, they sort of whispered Meryl f***ing Streep, which was very funny."

Katy Perry made children cry after gatecrashing a five year old's birthday party.
The 'Dark Horse' hitmaker dressed up as a clown for the video for her track 'Birthday' and carried out a prank at a party, where she attacked a man with a piñata stick and staged a car accident, but the spoof incident left children in tears.
Eye witnesses told TMZ, Katy pranked a real birthday party and most of the guests had no idea it was a joke.
Children were crying and one woman "stormed away" visibly upset by her antics.
The hidden camera gag was shot at Knollwood Country Club outside Los Angeles and a video obtained by the website shows one little girl saying, "Mommy, I want to leave."
During an interview on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live', Katy spoke about going "undercover" at the bash, but didn't mention the fall out.
Speaking earlier this week, she said: "I just did a music video completely undercover as five of the world's worst birthday entertainers, because I was sick of making gorgeous music videos where I'm sexual."
Jimmy joked: "People are sick of that, yeah, really tired of looking at you."
Katy, 29, then previewed a clip of the video which sees her dressed as a clown drinking and burping, saying: "I'm not really a birthday party entertainer, I'm just trying to get some cash on the side," adding, "Happy birthday kids."

Gwyneth Paltrow has been given a temporary restraining order against an alleged stalker.
The 'Iron Man' actress has taken legal measures against Nickolaos Gavrilis, ordering him to remain at least 100 yards from her, her estranged husband Chris Martin and their two children, Apple and Moses.
The super fan is accused of trying to sneak into their family homes in London and Los Angeles, according to ET Canada.
The court petition granted last Friday (18.04.14) featured details of the incidents from Terry Abbott, Gwyneth's Director of Security.
The first attempted break-in allegedly occurred in September 2012, when Nickolaos tried to get into the GOOP mogul's house by saying he had a business meeting with her.
Legal action was taken when the supposed stalker "made a third attempt" to access Gwyneth's residence in Los Angeles, California, earlier this month.
He was also spotted on April 10 near the Tracy Anderson Studio, the actress' regular fitness haunt.
The man has also been accused of posting "disturbing" messages on Gwyneth's Facebook page, causing her "substantial emotional distress".
Dr. David Glaser, a clinical and forensic psychiatry specialist, backed up the claims, saying the man poses a "danger of great and irreparable harm to Ms. Paltrow, her family, and those close to them."
A hearing will take place on May 12 to decide whether the restraining order should be made permanent.

Leslie Mann regrets using her marriage as inspiration for 'This Is 40'.
The 'Other Woman' star admits she became "annoyed" by the "invasive" questions about her relationship with director Judd Apatow when she starred alongside Paul Rudd in her husband's 2012 romantic comedy, because people failed to understand that aspects had been "exaggerated" for entertainment value.
Leslie, 42, told Stylist magazine: "The thing that bothered me, and I always tell Judd this, a lot of it is based on our lives but some of it is based on our friends' lives or whatever. I mean, we decided to put it out there, it's our own fault, but I did feel it was a little invasive at times. I kept getting annoyed because it was like, 'Argh! Everyone's in my business!"
Leslie - who has daughters Maude and Iris with Judd - insists it has always been her own choice to put her career on hold in order to raise her children and she often feels "incredibly guilty" when she has to leave them to shoot her next film.
She explained: "I have put stuff on hold - little bits here and there. There were times I chose to raise my kids, to be with them. And Judd makes more money than me so it makes sense. Even now they're 11 and 16, I feel incredibly guilty being away from them. I miss them so much. It's hard because when I'm with them every single day and night and they're like 'Do this! Get me that! Drive me here!' I'm like 'Argh! I wish I could be off working!' But I try to find the balance, even though it's impossible."

Laura Prepon thinks Tom Cruise is "hot".
The 'Orange is the New Black' actress insists rumours she is dating the 'Mission: Impossible' star are untrue, but she is "flattered" by the speculation, even though she finds it funny.
She told website The Daily Beast: "I'm flattered because I think he's hot, so I'm like, 'Oh, that's nice,' and apparently he's very gentlemanly with me.
"Apparently we get along great and he knows that I have a favourite bottle of wine that I didn't even know I had."
The 34-year-old star finds some of the claims about her personal life "unbelievable" and she is baffled by the level of fictitious detail given about her supposed relationship with the 51-year-old actor.
Speaking to Sheknows.com, she said: "Apparently I'm dating Tom Cruise right now. And apparently he doesn't want me doing the show because I portray a lesbian and I'm a Scientologist. This is false. Where are they even getting this stuff? It's unbelievable to me."
It had previously been claimed Tom and Laura first went on a date at the Manor Hotel in Los Angeles last November and the actor - who was previously married to Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes - was instantly smitten.
A source previously said: "They spent three hours laughing and joking. It's clear Tom is smitten and after the date he was on cloud nine.
"They had their second date at the restaurant too, meeting for Sunday Brunch and she then accompanied him a few days later to a dinner party at John [Travolta] and Kelly's [Preston] home."
Laura previously dated 'Malcolm in the Middle' actor Chris Masterson before their reported split in 2012.

Quentin Tarantino's lawsuit against Gawker has been dismissed.
The award-winning director was furious when the website posted a link to a leaked copy of his 'Hateful Eight' script, forcing him to scrap plans for the Western, but the site maintains there is no case and says directing people to an online version of the script was fair use as it hadn't "reproduced" the material.
A federal judge in California has granted the website's motion to dismiss the director's copyright infringement lawsuit since Tarantino failed to display particular details regarding the infringement facilitated by Gawker's actions.
However, the filmmaker can re-file the case if he makes key changes.
In an order obtained by Deadline.com - titled 'Quentin Tarantino -v- Gawker Media' - Judge John Walter said: "The Court grants Defendant's Motion on the grounds that Plaintiff has failed to adequately plead facts establishing direct infringement by a third party or facts that would demonstrate Defendant either caused, induced, or materially contributed to the alleged direct infringement of those third party infringers.
"Plaintiff merely speculates that some direct infringement must have taken place.
"For example, Plaintiff's Complaint fails to allege the identity of a single third-party infringer, the date, the time, or the details of a single instance of third-party infringement, or, more importantly, how Defendant allegedly caused, induced, or materially contributed to the infringement by those third parties."
Tarantino claims he only gave the script for 'The Hateful Eight' to six people and believes one of them must have let their agent see it, who subsequently sent it on.

Catherine Hardwicke will direct 'Miss You Already'.
The 58-year-old filmmaker will helm the picture which has Rachel Weisz and Toni Collette attached to star while Morwenna Banks penned the script based on personal experience.
It follows the story of two friends whose relationship goes through a tough time when one falls pregnant and the other falls sick.
Hardwicke said: "When I met Morwenna Banks and read her script, I really felt her passion for this story -- this is something she lived through. She managed to take real life and turn it into a powerful, laugh-and-cry-out-loud screenplay."
When the project was originally announced in 2012 it was based in London however this has since changed.
Samantha Horley, Managing Director of The Salt Company - who are co-producing - told Deadline.com: "We have a fresh new draft of the script for Cannes which has been worked on by Catherine and Morwenna. It's no longer just London set, for example, but London, Yorkshire Moors and beautiful Britain. What we feel Catherine has brought to it is a sweeping international appeal."
Meanwhile, Christopher Simon and Felix Vossen are producing the film which begins shooting in September.
Hardwicke previously directed and co-wrote the 2003's drama award-winning 'Thirteen' which starred Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood and earned Hunter an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
More recently, she directed 2008's 'Twilight' which featured Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in lead roles before working on 2011's 'Red Riding Hood' and last year's 'Reckless' and 'Plush'.

Little Mix worry their US fans won't understand their accents.
The 'Wings' group are set to perform their first North American headline tour in September and October and admit their strong regional accents have already left interviewers Stateside baffled.
Jade Thirlwall - who was born in South Shields, North East England - told the Daily Star newspaper: "I hope they can understand me. I've had to slow down my talking a bit and sound a bit more proper - even my name they don't understand.
"At radio stations they call me Jeed because they can't get Jade."
The group's 'Salute' stage spectacle kicks off in Florida on September 10 and the announcement puts paid to speculation Little Mix will support One Direction - which features Perry Edwards' fiance Zayn Malik - on their tour.
However, Jade insists fans shouldn't rule out the two acts sharing a stage in the future.
She added: "Who knows in the future, never say never."
When the 16-date tour was announced earlier this week, Jade - who is joined in the group by Perrie, Jesy Nelson and Leigh-Anne Pinnock - hailed the news as a "dream come true".
She tweeted: "So glad the #SaluteTourUSA is out there,couldn't hold it in any longer! #dreamcometrue thanks to our mixers for makin it possible! Xxjadexx.(sic)"

Iggy Azalea was forced to quite crowd surfing after allegedly being sexually assaulted by fans.
The 'Fancy' hitmaker claims she used to be attacked when she jumped off stage and would often see followers on Twitter post about plans to assault her at gigs.
She told New York radio station Hot 97: "I had to stop. I will get lurk tweets for like a week before my show, like, 'I'm about to go to the Iggy Azalea show and I'm going to f***er her', and I'll see it and be like, 'Please don't! That's a violation. I don't actually like that stuff'. They think I'm really sl***y like, 'She's got a song called Pu$$y, I know what she wants."
The 'Change Your Life' rapper insists usually female fans who try to assault her more than men because they think it's acceptable.
She explained: "Girls will try to do it more than guys 'cause they think it's cool, like, 'We've both got vaginas, it's fine'. Doesn't make it OK.
"Buying my album for $12 doesn't mean you get to f***er me when I come to your city."
The 23-year-old star now has barriers at her shows to keep opportunists away and has taken to wearing more clothes to protect herself.
She said: "I wear, no lie, two pairs on underpants and then a pair of skin-coloured tights and then my pants as like a protection barrier, because there's just no way I'm going to be intruded."

Britain's Prince William and Duchess Catherine unleashed their inner-DJs in Australia today (23.04.14).
The royal couple, fresh from a night of camping in the outback, visited the suburb of Elizabeth - which is named after William's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth - in Adelaide, where they met with young, aspiring musicians.
William, 31, and Catherine, 32, were treated to rap and hip-hop performances by members of Northern Sound System, a charitable effort which tries to engage young people through music.
The British visitors were even encouraged to have a go at controlling the music as Catherine stepped into the DJ booth and spun the decks.
William also got a chance to live on the wild side as he was given the opportunity to spray paint on a wall, before being wowed by a group of young cycling enthusiasts who performed tricks on their bikes.
The royals were again inundated with a slew of gifts for their young nine-month-old son, Prince George, with one youngster gifting them a custom-made skateboard for the tot.
Luke Haldenby told Australia's ABC News: "We gave them a skateboard that had 'George' on the bottom and it was green and it had Australian flags on both sides and kangaroos. He loved it and Kate thought that the design was nice."

EastEnders' Natalie Cassidy will get a lesbian storyline again - despite previously quitting the soap over a similar plot.
The actress' character Sonia Fowler has been getting close to openly lesbian pal Tina Carter (Luisa Bradshaw-White) in recent weeks and viewers will see the pair share a kiss next month after Tina comforts Sonia over her mum Carol's cancer.
However, Natalie, 30, previously left 'EastEnders' in 2006, partly blaming her lesbian storyline with nurse Naomi Julien, played by Petra Letang for her exit.
The actress previously said: "One of the reasons I left was the storyline. I felt it wasn't right for Sonia. Sometimes people are so keen to get a shocking story the character gets forgotten."
However, BBC bosses have assured Natalie her new lesbian storyline won't be salacious for the sake of it, and indeed, viewers have seen a genuine friendship grow between Sonia and Tina in recent weeks.
A source told The Sun newspaper: "At first Tina's shocked, but she's soon snogging her back. Natalie's been reassured the story will be in keeping with her character and so far, she's happy."
Natalie returned to 'EastEnders' earlier this year for the ongoing cancer storyline featuring Lindsey Coulson's Carol.
Sonia recently discovered she also has the deadly BRCA2 cancer gene her mother has.