Doctor Who - Season 1 (Series 14) Launches This Month

My final blog on the build up towards the first season/fourteenth series/fortieth season of Doctor Who overall. Oh, this is gonna be fun.

Last week saw the premiere of the upcoming series in London with an exclusive screening of the first two episodes - Space Babies and The Devil's Chord. Not too many spoilers have been revealed that we don't already know about but promotion has certainly kicked off.

The series stars Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson have been on the covers of magazines such SFX, Entertainment Weekly, Attitude and Radio Times. On top of that, the show has also taken it's promotion Stateside with both Ncuti and Millie appearing on Good Morning America while Disney have also been hard at work promoting the series.

Of course with promotion at full swing, the few tidbits that have come out have included Russell T. Davies talking about the finale containing scenes he's wanted to do for over 40 years, discpurse about the new sonic screwdriver, doubling down on Millie Gibson's Ruby Sunday remaining in the series next year as well as new trailers revealing her character getting caught up in political party Albion during the first season. And what of beyond that, eh?

The second season finale has gone underway with filming and a lot has been revealed by set reporters. First of all, both Varada Sethu and Jonah Hauer-King's characters are called Belinda and Conrad respectively and it seems that the latter might be a bad guy after all.

The finale, directed by Alex Pillai will also see the returns of both Bonnie Langford and Ruth Madeley as Melanie Bush and Shirley Anne Bingham. UNIT will also return in the finale but will we be seeing the Daleks any time soon? Maybe not, according to Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson during their interview on The One Show last week.

Speaking of our leads, with the show set to wrap up filming in a matter of weeks, both have their next projects lined up. Ncuti Gatwa will star in a stage production of The Importance Of Being Earnest alongside Sharon D. Clarke and Hugh Skinner while Millie Gibson has joined the cast of upcoming PBS reboot of The Forsyte Saga. Any filming for a third season with the leads won't commence until 2025. 

Doctor Who launches on Disney+ from May 10th at 4pm/7pm and BBC iPlayer from 12am on May 11th with BBC1 airing from 6.20pm and 7.05pm respectively before Eurovision that evening.