HUNKY actor Andrew Lincoln is being lined up as the next Dr Who, The Sun can reveal.

The star of TV shows This Life and Teachers is on the BBC’s “wish list” of favourites to play the eccentric timelord.

A telly insider said: “Andrew is very hot property at the moment. He would be brilliant as the doctor.” A spokeswoman for Andrew, 30, said: “We have not been approached yet but he would be very interested.”

Last week ex-Dr Who Tom Baker claimed Eddie Izzard had won the role. But Beeb drama chiefs say they have yet to choose. The show will return in 2005.