{"id":78802,"date":"2025-08-19T22:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/78802\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T22:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:53:09","slug":"doctor-who-spin-off-star-russell-tovey-confirms-new-plot-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/78802\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who spin-off star Russell Tovey confirms new plot details"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking to Rylan Clark at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Tovey gave some insight into the show, saying: “It’s set in our world. Climate change<\/a> is a huge factor, again it needs to be factored more into art so we really get an understanding of it.”<\/p>\n

Tovey added of his character: “It’s this narrative of this guy who, basically, as Jane [Tranter, executive producer] said in the introduction, he’s someone who works in the offices and books people’s taxis, but by some series of events, he ends up becoming a very important figure in the world, and having to understand that role and what that entails.<\/p>\n

\"Gugu<\/p>\n

Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Salt in The War Between the Land and the Sea\u00a0BBC Studios\/Bad Wolf\/Samuel Dore<\/p>\n

“And, in true Doctor Who [fashion, he’s] saving the planet. It was just a total joy to play this everyman who’s the sort of a guy that’s drifted into his late 30s, early 40s and, unbeknownst to him, just thought, ‘This is what life was going to be.’<\/p>\n

“I love that, hopefully, it’s inspiring and people feel like it’s not over, that things can shift any moment. I’m really proud of it, and I’m terrified of it and excited by it \u2013 all of those things. But working on it was brilliant, and the scripts were fab.”<\/p>\n

The War Between the Land and the Sea will see Tovey star alongside Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who’s playing a Sea Devil named Salt, with Doctor Who stars including Jemma Redgrave (Kate Stewart), Alexander Devrient (Colonel Ibrahim), and Ruth Madeley (Shirley Bingham) reprising their roles from the main series.<\/p>\n

Showrunner Davies recently said of the five-part series: \u201cI\u2019m immensely proud of it. I think it\u2019s absolutely brilliant. It\u2019s like we had a good idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added on the Pilot TV podcast<\/a>: \u201cSometimes you finish a show and they\u2019re like, \u2018Great, good, we did a really good job.\u2019<\/p>\n

“Sometimes they go through post-production where everything comes in. You work on the effects, on the music and the grading of it.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes magic happens \u2014 and it\u2019s happening with this. It\u2019s even better than we thought it was! I\u2019m delighted with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The War Between the Land and the Sea will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Doctor Who is available to stream on BBC iPlayer. Dive into our Doctor Who story guide<\/a>: reviews of every episode since 1963, plus cast & crew listings, production trivia, and exclusive material from the Radio Times archive. <\/p>\n

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