However, one thing that we still have no sense of is just what the newly designed TARDIS interior will look like - although we have just received a few little teases from executive producer Joel Collins.
Speaking in this month's Doctor Who Magazine, Collins said of the design: "We talked thorough various concepts with Russell, and there was one rough idea that was just too ambitious, and too impossible – but which everybody loved.
"Once I’d put it in front of Russell, he’s just too visually bright to unsee it. I’d go, 'Yes, yes, but it’s completely mad, it’s never going to happen.’ Then we started to say, 'OK, how do we make this impossible space possible?'"
David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor in Doctor Who. BBC
Collins continued: "Phil [Sims, production designer] brought in a brilliant engineer, who spent months trying to solve the engineering riddle of this impossible, logic-defying set, which no one in their right mind should ever have even drawn in the first place. But that kind of sums up the show..."
When it comes to casting for this season, alongside new stars such as Aneurin Barnard, Anita Dobson and Michelle Greenidge, it was also revealed last month that Jemma Redgrave will be returning as fan-favourite character and UNIT boss Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, daughter of the Brigadier.
He said: "The man with an umbrella and his back to camera, walking into the bright red shop in the rain, who’s he? That’s a lovely guest star. Wonderful actor. Walking past unnoticed. Wait and see!"
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James Hibbs is a Drama Writer for Radio Times, covering programmes across both streaming platforms and linear channels. He previously worked in PR, first for a B2B agency and subsequently for international TV production company Fremantle. He possesses a BA in English and Theatre Studies and an NCTJ Level 5 Diploma in Journalism.
