The Time Lord Is About To Land
- Publication: Radio Times
- Date: 2024-04-27
- Author: Huw Fullerton
- Page: 6
- Language: English
New Time Lord Ncuti Gatwa kicks off his first full Doctor Who series with a two-episode launch this May - and while this run is being rebranded as "season one" around the world (despite the show's recent 60th birthday), fans apparently shouldn't expect massive changes.
"It's the same old Doctor Who in many ways," series boss Russell T Davies tells RT. "I'm not here to reinvent the wheel - I'm just going to make it spin better.
"It's going to and fro in history we're going to the 60s, and there's an episode in 1813 and others on modern-day Earth, which are always my favourites. And there are gorgeous alien planets, which we have an increased budget to show on a bigger scale."
And as ever, the series will be stuffed with aliens, villains and monsters, kicking off with the "Bogeyman" stalking a creepy space station (pictured) in the series' first episode - "a good old-fashioned scary Doctor Who monster," Davies says — followed by a music-based baddie called Maestro in the second story (played by Jinkx Monsoon, inset top right).
"She's part of this pantheon of gods with enormous powers," Davies says. "I think Doctor Who is all the more exciting when the enemy is impossible to beat, and this is someone changing all of time and space around them."
And that's just for starters. In a later episode, "There's a race of bird creatures," Davies says. "They're all different designs, different make-ups. And there's a mysterious creature, an enemy, in episode four that it's impossible to describe. You'll see what I mean.
"It's all heading towards a magnificent season finale. I believe in finales being huge and massive and terrifying, and all the stakes being raised. And we've really done it with this one."
Doctor Who returns to BBC1 and iPlayer on Saturday 11 May
NEXT WEEK! More exclusive pictures and insights into the new series, and RT's interview with Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson — on sale from 30 April
Captions:
ROCKIN' IT Ruby (Millie Gibson) and the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) get into a 60s groove in episode two
MUSIC TO DIE FOR Drag superstar Jinkx Monsoon plays Maestro, the deadly foe in the second episode, The Devil's Chord
LITTLE GREEN MEN? As the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Ruby (Millie Gibson) venture into the unknown, will they encounter the "Bogeyman"? This first episode is titled Space Babies...
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