Doctor Who returns in April, and it's bringing Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming returns to the TARDIS for the first time since 2018.

Doctor Who returns in April, and it's bringing Alan Cumming

The good Doctor Who is bringing the TARDIS back to television this April, and the Doctor isn’t coming alone. In the second episode, none other than the Traitor himself Alan Cumming will be making his long-awaited return to the long-running British sci-fi series. Cumming will voice Mr Ring-a-Ding in the upcoming season’s second episode. Mr. Ring-a-Ding is a cartoon character who lives in Sunny Town with his good-time buddy, Sunshine Sally. Set in 1952, Mr. Ring-a-ding, tired of repeats in movie theaters, “suddenly looks beyond the screen and sees the real world outside — and the consequences are terrifying.” Based on the previously released teaser, Mr. Ring-a-Ding crawls out of the screen like in Last Action Hero. The episode marks Cumming’s second appearance in the Whoniverse. His first was in the 2018 episode “The Witchfinder,” playing King James I.

The new eight-episode season sees the return of Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor and Millie Gibson as his companion, Ruby Sunday. It will also see the debut of Varada Sethu, who will play a new Doctor’s companion, Belinda Chandra. Here’s the season’s synopsis:

“The Doctor meets Belinda Chandra and begins an epic quest to get her back to Earth. But a mysterious force is stopping their return and the time-traveling TARDIS team must face great dangers, bigger enemies and wider terrors than ever before.”

Doctor Who premieres on April 12 on Disney+ and BBC.

 
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