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Ncuti Gatwa has revealed his "ultimate" Doctor Who villain he would love to battle during his stint as the Time Lord.

Hot off the heels of Fool Me Once, Netflix is set to release another thriller adapted from a Harlan Coben novel and there are lots of familiar faces in the cast.The series, which is based on the 2014 novel, previously cast Slow Horses actress Rosalind Eleazar as the lead Detective Kat Donovan, with filming already underway. Joining Rosalind in the production is EastEnders star Jessica Plummer, Fool Me Once’s Richard Armitage, Three Little Birds’ Lenny Henry, Happy Valley’s Steve Pemberton, and The Stranger’s Paul Kaye.

EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Plummer (The Girl Before), Richard Armitage (The Hobbit), Lenny Henry (The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power), Steve Pemberton (Happy Valley), Paul Kaye (Sexy Beast), Samantha Spiro (Sex Education), Lisa Faulkner (Archie) and Mary Malone (Doctor Who) are among cast to have joined Rosalind Eleazar (Slow Horses) in Netflix‘s Harlan Coben adaptation Missing You, which is currently filming in the UK.

Alex Ritman Concourse Media, the sales and distribution banner led by Matthew Shreder, is teaming with Goldfinch on its already-established genre label The Number 44. Concourse will come aboard as sales partner for a five-picture slate, which is fully financed with production already completed on two films and three more slated for this year. Concourse is also helping develop and produce.

Masterpiece on PBS has dropped the first images from its production of The Marlow Murder Club from Death in Paradise creator Robert Thorogood. It’s based on Thorogood’s novel of the same name and stars Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey), Jo Martin (Small Axe), Cara Horgan (The Sandman) and Natalie Dew (Archer).

K.J. Yossman Jessica Hynes (“Shaun of the Dead”) and Akemnji Ndifornyen (“Famalam”) are among the cast set to join Adjani Salmon’s BBC and A24 series “Dreaming Whilst Black.” The show, which Salmon (“Doctor Who”) created and stars in, is based on a web-series of the same name. It was adapted into a critically acclaimed pilot in 2021 and greenlit for a six-part series last fall. The series will see Salmon reprise his role as Kwabena alongside Dani Moseley (“The Kitchen”) as Amy. They will be joined by newcomers to the show Hynes and Ndifornyen as well as Isy Suttie (“Peep Show”), Peter Serafinowicz (“The Tick”), Roger Griffiths (“Chef!”), Martina Laird (“The Little Mermaid”), Jo Martin (“Doctor Who”), Steve Furst (“The Serpent Queen”) and “Love Island’s” Ovie Soko.

Death in Paradise creator Robert Thorogood is penning a TV adaptation of his novel The Marlow Murder Club for PBS Masterpiece and UK network UKTV.

EXCLUSIVE: Cameras have started rolling on the psychological horror pic I’ll Play Mother from The Number 44, the UK-based production house co-founded by filmmaker Ben Charles Edwards (A Bird Flew In).

Scots actor David Tennant is returning as Doctor Who after a shock exit from Jodie Whittaker on Sunday night.

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Netflix has boarded its latest BBC drama, Champion, the show from award-winning Queenie writer Candice Carty-Williams, which has unveiled cast.

Scotland-raised Gatwa, 29, will be the first Black actor to helm the quintessential British sci-fi show, but he won’t be the first Black Doctor — Jo Martin has played “Fugitive Doctor” in several episodes.Whittaker became the 13th Doctor — and the first woman to play the central galaxy-hopping, extraterrestrial Time Lord who regenerates into new bodies — in 2017, when she took over from Peter Capaldi. Her last episode of “Doctor Who” is expected to air later this year.The original run of “Doctor Who” spanned 1963 to 1989.

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Vikings, The Tudors) and MyAnna Buring (The Witcher, The Salisbury Poisonings) have signed on to star alongside Alec Baldwin in the hijacked airplane action-thriller 97 Minutes, from director Timo Vuorensola (Iron Sky), which has entered production at Black Hangar Studios (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, 24: Live Another Day) in the UK.

Matthew McConaughey‘s daughter Vida, 10, shared some constructive criticism with her dad when she crashed one of his latest interviews. The actor, 51, was in the middle of a video chat when his middle child came into frame to help him answer a question.

Fans of “Doctor Who” are anxiously awaiting the upcoming 13th season, along with the traditional Christmas special, and the Doctor herself, star Jodie Whittaker, was joined by “companions” Mandip Gill and Bradley Walsh in a virtual session for New York Comic-Con.

Batman Begins star Jo Martin has been unveiled as the first black Doctor Who.

It’s been revealed that Jo Martin’s appearance in the most recent episode of Doctor Who was more than it seemed and she is in fact the first black actor to play the role of The Doctor.