When Doctor Who returns to our screens this Spring, the touring Time Lord received’t be coming alone. Along with a model new companion, Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor might be accompanied by a very acquainted Traitor with the information that Alan Cumming might be guest-starring within the second episode of the new season as a cinematic menace from past actuality. (, as one would possibly anticipate.)
The present’s new season — its second since Disney+ picked up distribution rights for your complete world exterior of the UK, the place the present stays with its unique community, the BBC — will debut April 12 with Gatwa and Millie Gibson returning as the Doctor and Ruby Sunday, respectively; they’ll be joined by Varada Sethu, who’ll play new companion Belinda Chandra, who it seems will energy this season’s main story arc. Because the official synopsis for the season explains, “The Doctor meets Belinda Chandra and begins an epic quest to get her again to Earth. However a mysterious power is stopping their return and the time-traveling TARDIS crew should face nice risks, larger enemies and wider terrors than ever earlier than.”
A type of “larger enemies” might be Mr. Ring-a-Ding, a “completely happy, humorous, singalong cartoon who lives in Sunny City with his pal Sunshine Sally,” as per the BBC — however don’t be fooled by that upbeat description. “Nonetheless, in 1952, after years of repeats in cinemas throughout the land, Mr Ring-a-Ding all of a sudden appears past the display screen and sees the actual world exterior — and the implications are terrifying,” the synopsis of the season’s second episode continues. Alan Cumming might be voicing the character, with showrunner Russell T. Davies saying, “Solely Alan Cumming might give a runaway cartoon a lot wit, malice, hazard and enjoyable.” (Clearly somebody is a fan of The Traitors.)
To accompany the information that the present will return April 12, Disney and the BBC launched new key artwork from the season, together with a take a look at Mr. Ring-a-Ding, as effectively as a sneaky take a look at what Ruby appears to have been as much as since leaving the Doctor on the finish of the final season… she’s working with UNIT, it appears… Click on via the gallery under to see extra.