“ What happens when the Doctor is n’t here to save everyone ? ” is a questionDoctor Whohas ask many sentence over the years – and even its pastspinoffs likeTorchwoodhave reflect the question . But now , it ’s time to take it again … and the answer is so dangerous it ’s go bad to take a whole Modern spinoff show to find it .
Announced today duringDoctor Who‘s San Diego Comic - Con panel , The War Between Land and Sea(a phrase that came up concisely during Ncuti Gatwa ’s entry seasonearlier this yr ) will abide by an international crisis on Earth , when the Sea Devils – the ancient underwater race introduced in the 1972 classic “ The Sea Devils ” , and most lately returned in the 2022slightly less classic“Legend of the Sea Devils”–emerge from the oceans and bring out themselves to world on a spherical scale . Without the Doctor to help oneself , social unit steps in as man ’s first and last bloodline of defense … as war rears its head , threatening to plunge the world into topsy-turvyness .
Written by Russell T. Davies andDiscovery of Witchesand formerWhoscribe Pete McTighe , the five - episode series will star Jemma Redgrave and Alexander Devrient , repeat their roles as UNIT leader Kate Lethbridge - Stewart , and Colonel Ibrahim fromDoctor Who‘s recent season , respectively . They will also be join byFeudandBeing Human‘s Russell Tovey andLoki‘s Gugu Mbatha - Rawin the independent cast . However , unlike Redgrave and Devrient , an promulgation released to press by the BBC and Disney does not acknowledge who they are play .
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Both Tovey and Mbatha - Raw have previously appeared inDoctor Who . Tovey act Midshipman Alonso Frame in the 2007 Christmas special “ Voyage of the Damned ” , one of the few survivor aboard the doom starshipTitanic , and briefly reprised the role as a pass of John Barrowman ’s Captain Jack Harkness 2010 special “ The goal of Time , Part 2 ” . Mbatha - Raw , meanwhile , regularly appeared throughout the 2007 season ofDoctor Whoas Tish Jones , the sis of companion Martha Jones . give that Martha go on to appear as a penis of UNIT in multiple appearance after she left the TARDIS , it would n’t be all that surprising if Mbatha - Raw is playing Tish again – but so far its seems both appear to be starring in new roles .
Filming onThe War between Land and Seawill begin next calendar month , with the miniseries set to publicise on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the U.K. , streaming exclusively internationally on Disney+ , at a posterior day of the month .
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