Doctor Who season 13: release date and everything we know

Mend Who season 13: release date and everything we know

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Doctor Who series 13: key info

- Returning along October 31, 2021
- Sestet episodes this season, followed by ternion specials in 2022
- John Bishop is joining the cast
- Jodie Whittaker will leave the role in 2022, on with showrunner Chris Chibnall

Doctor Who series 13 in the end releases along October 31, after a long wait for the BBC sci-fi show's revert – immediately given the subtitle of 'Flux'. This will be the third and final harden to prima Jodie Whittaker in the lead role, with showrunner Chris Chibnall set to depart also following a trilogy of specials.

Doctor Who serial 13 is laid to pick up after the departures of Graham (Omar Nelson Bradle Walsh) and Ryan (Tosin Cole) in the 2021 New Year's special, Revolution of the Daleks. Yaz (Mandip Gill) will restitution alongside a new companion, Dan (Trick Bishop), mise en scene up what is delineate as the Physician's "biggest adventure yet."

With that in mind, here's everything we cognize about season 13 of Doctor World Health Organization and how Jodie Whittaker is set to back dow as the first woman to portray the Prison term Lord.

Release date: Doctor Who returns to screens on October 31, 2021.

Cast: Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill and John Bishop make up the show's main cast for this coming harden.

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The Doctor returns for her biggest adventure yet.#DoctorWho: Flux premieres 31st Oct ✨ pic.twitter.com/iStI1vEmFGOctober 9, 2021

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Doctor Who series 13 begins on October 31, as habitual by the BBC in a tweet above. The show has been given the subtitle 'Flux' for this run of episodes.

Filming on serial publication 13 commenced in November 2020 before being complete by Aug 2021. Due to Covid-19, there will be Captain Hicks episodes instead of the expected 11, with two specials already shot for 2022. A third specialised is then regular to air to cooccur with with the BBC's centenary celebrations in autumn 2022, which will also act as Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall's swansong.

"Jodie and I made a 'three serial publication and unsuccessful' pact with for each one other at the start of this once-in-a-lifetime flak. So now our fault is done, and we're handing rachis the TARDIS keys," wrote Chibnall in a blog confirming the pair's exits from the show (via the BBC).

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The first trailer of season 13 debuted at the BBC's Doctor Who panel during the virtual San Diego Comic-Con 2021. The 42-second preview shows off same little, but gives us legal brief glimpses of a number of new planets, as healed A newcomers Dan and Vinder. The Doctor and returning companion Yaz both feature heavily, to a fault.

Few moments to high spot (in chronological social club) include: killer robots, the TARDIS rocketing through the time vortex, Dan falling connected his fount in an surround that seems Egyptian, the Doctor and Yaz flying across a planet spell holding onto a glider, and Yaz relation a guilty-superficial Sophisticate that she is "hiding something."

Doctor Who season 13 cast

The full confirmed cast list and so far for Doctor Who time of year 13 can be seen infra:

Jodie Whittaker: The Doctor
Mandip Gill: Yasmin Khan
John the Divin Bishop: Dan Lewis
Jacob Anderson: Vinder

Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill will return to their respective roles, while Chris Chibnall wish in one case again act upon as showrunner. Ed Hime and Maxine Alderton both regaining American Samoa writers, with Segun Akinola likewise composing the thirteenth series after joining in season 11. Jamie Magnus Rock and Azhur Saleem were both confirmed as directors for the six-episode run.

The newest face to the TARDIS team leave be the introduction of Dan Lewis, played by comedian John Bishop. The Liverpool-born and bred mirthful antecedently held roles in seasons 3 and 4 of Skins, likewise every bit the ITV crime thriller drama Unafraid. This is inarguably Bishop's biggest role in acting to engagement. On top of this, Jacob Anderson (best known As Grey Louse in Gamy of Thrones) will join atomic number 3 a recurring regorge member.

Fix Who season 13 story

While few details are out at that place almost the plat of season 13 honorable now, we dress screw that the sixer episodes will tell apar an overarching story – the first time this has happened since 1986's The Trial of a Timelord serial with Colin Baker. The hebdomadally cliffhangers are likewise selfsame reminiscent of standard World Health Organization with stories commonly beingness between four to six episodes.

Unexampled fellow Dan will live from Liverpool (like Bishop), and looks to be a handyman from the teaser shown after Revolution of the Daleks. Vinder, interim, was delineated by the Game of Thrones worker himself as "fun, adventurous, and dynamic." He was also habitual to possess his possess spaceship.

After season 12's arguable Timeless Child arc came to a climax, many fans were left with more questions than answers. That's why we regard the narrative surrounding WHO the Doctor actually is and how she became the Timeless Child testament be fleshed out further – potentially something that leads to this incarnation's demise.

Chibnall spoke a little on the story American Samoa part of the Doctor Who Comic-Rook@Nursing home 2021 panel: "I can enjoin you that we beak up with the Doctor and Yaz, who have been travelling together for some fourth dimension, and we come and meet them mid-adventure," he said. "So they stumble crosswise a man called Dan Lewis."

Nearly recently, during the Edinburgh TV Festival, BBC director of drama Piers Wenger commented on the direction of the show (via Elliot Gonzalez).

"As with any change of Doctor and showrunner, we'll be radical [...] Change is ahead," he told attendees.

Following the three specials imputable take place in 2022, the 13th Doctor testament regenerate into a presently unknown actor. Speculation is already abundant with who bequeath relieve the TARDIS, nonetheless atomic number 102 official name is likely to be announced until sometime incoming yr.

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