{"id":243548,"date":"2025-11-04T15:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243548\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:52:11","slug":"doctor-whos-sea-devils-are-now-called-homo-aqua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243548\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who&#8217;s Sea Devils are now called Homo Aqua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While giving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/magazine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Times magazine<\/a> a tour of the set for the Doctor Who spin-off <a href=\"https:\/\/cultbox.co.uk\/news\/start-dates\/the-war-between-the-land-and-the-sea-to-air-december-in-the-uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The War Between the Land and the Sea<\/a>, showrunner Russell T Davies explained the sea-dwelling race familiarly known as \u201cSea Devils\u201d prefer to be called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/cultbox.co.uk\/news\/new-doctor-who-online-unit-archive-includes-spin-off-easter-egg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Homo Aqua<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s racist to say Sea Devil,\u201d Russell T Davies told RT, with a twinkle in his eye.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Salt-Barclay-helmet-The-War-Between-the-Land-and-the-Sea-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-143708\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In the premise of the spin-off, it\u2019s the humans who are the villains. After years of polluting the oceans, humankind finds itself in conflict with Homo Aqua. It\u2019s up to human negotiator Barclay (Russell Tovey) and aquatic ambassador Salt (Gugu Mbatha- Raw) to discuss terms in underwater peace talks on the sea floor. The Homo Aqua base is described as a twisted, tendril-strewn dome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think every writer in the world is thinking, how do you write about the climate crisis?\u201d Davies continued. \u201cWe\u2019re already in a climate war. This just dramatises it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Barclay-The-War-Between-the-Land-and-the-Sea-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-143696\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Davies explained that fans shouldn\u2019t expect the \u201cdeliberately tougher\u201d spin-off to be like the main show \u2014 or for the TARDIS to turn up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sea-Devils-The-War-Between-NYC-Doctor-Who-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-146608\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Written by Russell T Davies and Pete McTighe, <a href=\"https:\/\/cultbox.co.uk\/general\/the-war-between-the-land-and-the-sea-trailer-breakdown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The War Between the Land and the Sea<\/a> will air on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the UK in December 2025, and exclusively on Disney+ outside of the UK (where available) in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While giving Radio Times magazine a tour of the set for the Doctor Who spin-off The War Between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-243548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}