No, time to die! Why it’s the perfect moment to kill off James Bond

The Independent says Daniel Craig became Bond eight weeks before the birth of YouTube. As Craig arrived with a splash, on the Thames by speedboat – putting to bed more than a year of speculation about who’d play 007 following Pierce Brosnan’s exit – no one had yet heard Madonna’s “Hung Up”, which wouldn’t be released for another four days. Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper had relaunched Doctor Who just a few months earlier. It was October 2005, a veritable lifetime ago for everyone but Craig’s Bond. To put the length of his secret agent tenure into perspective, four Doctors have since come and gone.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/no-time-to-die-james-bond-b1926388.html