A new Doctor Who spinoff series is coming to Disney Plus

The Doctor Who franchise is astir to get adjacent bigger with a caller spinoff bid that, interestingly, doesn’t look similar it’s going to absorption connected everyone’s favourite Time Lord.

During the Doctor Who panel astatine this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Disney and the BBC announced that The War Between The Land And The Sea — a caller bid written by Russell T. Davies and Pete McTighe — is connected the way. Rather than the Doctor, the caller amusement volition revolve astir a radical of humans arsenic they enactment unneurotic to look the Sea Devils, a contention of ancient, ocean-dwelling creatures who archetypal appeared successful Doctor Who back successful 1972.

Jemma Redgrave and Alexander Devrient are acceptable to reprise their roles arsenic Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and Colonel Ibrahim, respectively, but they volition besides beryllium joined by Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw arsenic characters not yet revealed. Previously, Tovey and Mbatha-Raw some starred successful Doctor Who —he arsenic Titanic midshipman Alonso Frame, and she arsenic Tish Jones — but it’s not wide whether that’s who they’ll beryllium playing here.

In a property merchandise astir the caller show, Davies called it “a huge, muscular, thrilling play which volition shingle The Whoniverse to its foundations,” and portion we don’t cognize erstwhile to expect its debut, it’s scheduled to statesman shooting successful August.