After some rumors round Jemma Redgrave’s return to the Doctor Who franchise, the BBC has confirmed that she shall be reprising her position as fan-favorite Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, Chief Scientific Officer on the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce and daughter of basic Who’s much more beloved UNIT commander, Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. But Redgrave isn’t the one new star introduced.

Aneurin Barnard (Peaky Blinders) shall be becoming a member of the collection as Roger ap Gwilliam, though no extra data has been launched about his half within the present. Currently, Redgrave and Barnard are anticipated to seem through the 2024 season alongside Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor.

But first up shall be Doctor Who’s three-part Sixtieth-anniversary special that can run in November of 2023, and can see former Tenth Doctor David Tennant in some way returning as the Fourteenth Doctor.

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