Bestselling writer Juno Dawson has entered the TARDIS for the upcoming Physician Who.
Dawson, who pens a Physician Who spin-off podcast, is one in every of quite a lot of new faces becoming a member of Russell T Davies‘ regenerated sequence, additionally together with Pete McTighe, Inua Ellams and Sharma Angel-Walfall.
The brand new sequence will come out later this yr.
Dawson is a best-selling writer whose works embrace This E book is Homosexual and Her Majesty’s Royal Coven. Her Physician Who: Redacted BBC podcast options former Physician Jodie Whittaker and noticed a gaggle caught in a supernatural conspiracy as they be taught that everybody who’s ever met the Physician is disappearing and being forgotten.
Dawson can be writing Altitude Tv’s adaptation of Eliza Clark’s novel Penance, whereas her YA trio Clear, Meat Market and Wonderland have been optioned for TV a number of years again by Sky Studios-backed indie The Lighthouse.
“I began watching Physician Who with my grandma after I was ten-years-old within the Nineties,” stated Dawson. “From writing fan-fiction for an viewers of 1, to scripting one of the best TV present of all time is really a dream come true. I can’t look forward to followers and newcomers to see the brand new season.”
Dawson has joined Physician Who alongside McTighe, who is a author and EP on the forthcoming The Struggle Between The Land And The Sea – the primary main spin-off to emerge from Davies’ ‘Whoniverse’ starring Gugu Mbatha-Uncooked and Russell Tovey. McTighe has created, written or EP’d dramas together with A Discovery of Witches and The Pact.
Angel-Walfall’s credit, in the meantime, embrace Supacell and The Ballad of Renegade Nell, whereas Ellams has revealed books of poetry and written performs.
The upcoming Physician Who Season 2 will air later this yr, with premiere date but to be introduced. Final yr’s sequence was the primary to characteristic Ncuti Gatwa because the Physician and the primary to be co-produced with Disney+, whereas Davies returned to showrunner duties. The sequence is produced by Unhealthy Wolf with BBC Studios for the BBC and Disney Branded Tv, and can air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer within the UK, and solely on Disney+ outdoors of the UK the place obtainable. Davies is showrunner and government producer. Further government producers are Joel Collins, Phil Collinson, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter.
