Tennant and Whittaker have joined the series in recurring guest star roles, alongside Nicola Coughlan, Jim Broadbent, Richard Ayoade, Adrian Lukis and Kathryn Hunter. <\/p>\n
Exact character details are being kept under wraps.<\/p>\n
They join the previously announced new additions<\/a> Jennifer Saunders, Sean Teale, Simone Ashley, Amar Chadha-Patel, Rhea Norwood, Matthew Beard, Sharon Horgan, Martin Freeman, Geri Halliwell-Horner, Jamie Demetriou, Anjana Vasan, Jane Horrocks, Derek Jacobi and Lesley Nicol.<\/p>\n David Tennant in Rivals season 2.\u00a0Disney+<\/p>\n Tennant is best known for his portrayal of the Tenth Doctor and the Fourteenth Doctor on Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n He’s currently starring as Tony Baddingham in Disney+ series Rivals<\/a>, while other recent credits include ITV\u2019s phone-hacking drama The Hack and Netflix’s adaptation of Richard Osman’s novel The Thursday Murder Club.<\/p>\n Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor in Doctor Who episode The Timeless Children.\u00a0BBC Studios<\/p>\n Whittaker appeared as the first female version of the ever-changing Time Lord in Doctor Who, taking over from Peter Capaldi in 2018.<\/p>\n More recent credits include Netflix’s Office Romance, ITV’s Frauds and Netflix’s Toxic Town.<\/p>\n Plot details for Only Murders in the Building season 6 are yet to be announced, but the upcoming instalment is expected to revolve around the group’s trip to London as well as the death of a long-standing character at the end of season 5… which we won’t spoil if you’re not caught up yet.<\/p>\n Only Murders in the Building season 6 is coming soon to Disney+.<\/p>\n Add Only Murders in the Building to your watchlist on the Radio Times: What to Watch app<\/a> \u2013 download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more.<\/p>\n Check out more of our Comedy<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what’s on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only Murders in the Building season 6 has expanded its cast, with Doctor Who stars David Tennant and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-640534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640534","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=640534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"David](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7227RIVALS2Ep6RV030925-e071830.jpg\" "\\"David")
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