Disney Branded Television and the BBC jointly announced today the premiere date for Season 2 of the global hit sci-fi series Doctor Who.
A new season. A new companion!
Ncuti Gatwa (Sex Education, Masters of the Air, Barbie) will soon be back as The Doctor, and this time around, the Time Lord meets Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu, Annika, Andor) and begins an epic quest to get her back to Earth. But a mysterious force is stopping their return, and the time-traveling TARDIS team must face greater dangers, bigger enemies, and wider terrors than ever before.
(Eagle-eyed fans will remember Varada Sethu from Season 1, when she played a different character in the episode “Boom.”)
Doctor Who: Season 2 premieres Saturday, April 12 (3am ET/12am PT) on Disney+, where available, and exclusively on the BBC and BBC iPlayer in the UK (8am BST). New episodes of the eight-episode season will drop weekly on Saturdays through May 31.
Joining Gatwa and Sethu is Emmy® Award winner Alan Cumming (The Traitors); he guest stars in the second episode as Mr Ring-a-Ding, a happy, funny, singalong cartoon, who lives in Sunny Town with his friend, Sunshine Sally. However, in 1952, after years of repeats in cinemas across the land, Mr Ring-a-Ding suddenly looks beyond the screen and sees the real world outside — and the consequences are terrifying.
(Cumming is another Doctor Who alum, having played King James I in the 2018 episode “The Witchfinders.”)
The cast also includes Millie Gibson (Coronation Street) and guest stars Rose Ayling-Ellis (EastEnders), Christopher Chung (Slow Horses), Anita Dobson (EastEnders), Michelle Greenidge (Code 404), Jonah Hauer-King (World on Fire), Ruth Madeley (Brassic), Jemma Redgrave (Grantchester), and Susan Twist (Coronation Street).
A production of Bad Wolf, with BBC Studios for Disney Branded Television and BBC One and BBC iPlayer, Doctor Who is showrun, executive produced, and written by Russell T Davies, with Joel Collins, Phil Collinson, Julie Gardner, and Jane Tranter also executive producing.
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