It seems there will be a new companion entering the TARDIS. According to Deadline, Jonathan Groff (Frozen, Hamilton) has joined the cast of Doctor Who for the upcoming season. Groff will be starring in an unknown guest role. Filming continues in Wales amid the WGA strike, even after some UK writing guild members joined the strike.
According to Deadline, the BBC didn’t give much detail regarding the guest role Groff will be playing but they did reveal that Groff’s character will “jump aboard the TARDIS,” which suggests Groff will be playing an ally rather than an enemy of the Doctor.
The BBC recently released first-look images for Doctor Who protagonists Ncuti Gatwa (Sex Education, The Last Letter from Your Lover) as the Fifteenth Doctor and Millie Gibson (Coronation Street, Jamie Johnson) as his companion Ruby Sunday. RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon (Happiest Season, AJ and the Queen) will also be joining the cast for the upcoming season.
The new season is already being filmed with Russell T. Davies (It’s a Sin, Torchwood) at the helm again. Davies is working as the showrunner for the fourteenth season of the British classic Doctor Who. The new season is being co-produced with Bad Wolf. With the return of Davies, the Whoniverse spin-offs are also back. According to Deadline, a spinoff is currently in the works with actress Jemma Redgrave (Holby City, Grantchester) returning as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart. This spinoff will follow a storyline involving UNIT, a military research organization, that has been present in previous seasons.
A 60th anniversary special will air in November 2023 and will reintroduce David Tennant (Good Omens, Broadchurch) as the Fourteenth Doctor, who was last seen when The Thirteenth Doctor, played by Jodie Whittaker (Broadchurch, Journeyman), regenerated in the last episode of season thirteen. Catherine Tate (Hard Cell, The Nan Movie) is also said to be returning to her role as Donna Noble in the 60th special. Gatwa is set to make his first appearance as the Fifteenth Doctor during the anniversary special. Other cast members set to appear in the special include Yasmin Finney (Heartstopper) as Rose Temple-Noble and Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother, A Series of Unfortunate Events).
It has been announced that Doctor Who has found a new streaming home with Disney+ following its new partnership with the BBC. New Doctor Who episodes will stream on Disney+ worldwide while remaining on the BBC channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Doctor Who is a sci-fi show about an alien called The Doctor that travels through time and space in the TARDIS. The Doctor spends quite a bit of time saving the Earth from alien attacks and Earth is where they usually meet their companions. The show has been airing since 1963 with William Hartnell (Carry On Sergeant, Escape) playing the Doctor back then. Since that first episode, fifteen different actors have interpreted the Doctor, with Gatwa being the latest to star in this iconic role.
New episodes of Doctor Who will premiere during the show’s 60th anniversary in November 2023. Older seasons of Doctor Who starring Christopher Eccleston (Thor: The Dark World, The A Word), Tennant, Matt Smith (House of the Dragon, Morbius), Peter Capaldi (Suicide Squad, The Thick of It), and Whittaker are available to stream on HBO Max and Amazon Prime.