Doctor Who‘s New Spinoff Revives the Sea Devils Once More

“What happens erstwhile the Doctor isn’t present to prevention everyone?” is simply a question Doctor Who has asked galore times implicit the years–and adjacent its past spinoffs like Torchwood person pondered the question. But now, it’s clip to inquire it again… and the reply is truthful unsafe it’s going to instrumentality a full caller spinoff amusement to find it.

Announced contiguous during Doctor Who‘s San Diego Comic-Con panel, The War Between Land and Sea (a operation that came up concisely during Ncuti Gatwa’s debut play earlier this year) volition travel an planetary situation connected Earth, erstwhile the Sea Devils–the past underwater contention introduced successful the 1972 classical “The Sea Devils”, and astir precocious returned successful the 2022 slightly little classic “Legend of the Sea Devils”–emerge from the oceans and uncover themselves to humanity connected a planetary scale. Without the Doctor to help, UNIT steps successful arsenic humanity’s archetypal and past enactment of defence… arsenic warfare rears its head, threatening to plunge the satellite into chaos.

Written by Russell T. Davies and Discovery of Witches and erstwhile Who scribe Pete McTighe, the five-episode bid volition prima Jemma Redgrave and Alexander Devrient, reprising their roles arsenic UNIT person Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, and Colonel Ibrahim from Doctor Who‘s caller season, respectively. They volition besides beryllium joined by Feud and Being Human‘s Russell Tovey and Loki‘s Gugu Mbatha-Raw successful the main cast. However, dissimilar Redgrave and Devrient, an announcement released to property by the BBC and Disney does not admit who they are playing.

Both Tovey and Mbatha-Raw person antecedently appeared in Doctor Who. Tovey played Midshipman Alonso Frame successful the 2007 Christmas peculiar “Voyage of the Damned”, 1 of the fewer survivors aboard the doomed starship Titanic, and concisely reprised the relation arsenic a fling of John Barrowman’s Captain Jack Harkness 2010 peculiar “The End of Time, Part 2”. Mbatha-Raw, meanwhile, regularly appeared passim the 2007 play of Doctor Who arsenic Tish Jones, the sister of companion Martha Jones. Given that Martha went connected to look arsenic a subordinate of UNIT successful aggregate appearances aft she near the TARDIS, it wouldn’t beryllium each that astonishing if Mbatha-Raw is playing Tish again.

Filming on The War betwixt Land and Sea volition statesman adjacent month, with the miniseries acceptable to aerial connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer successful the U.K., streaming exclusively internationally connected Disney+, astatine a aboriginal date.

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