'Doctor Who' Is In Two Hearts Taking Home New Trailer

Find out Rose Ayling-Ellis’s role and who Christopher Chung’s Cassio is already!

The days to Doctor Who’s new season premiering on April 12 on BBC One and Disney+ are falling away, so what’s another trailer to hype it, set to pop music familiar to its global audience? That’s indeed what we got last Monday on both fronts, in fact shortly after the episode titles reveal.

Set to Phil Collins’s “Take Me Home”, it reuses a lot of scenes from previous trailers, especially from the first two episodes “The Robot Revolution” and “Lux”, finally getting to see animated forms the Doctor, played by Ncuti Gatwa, and Belinda Chandra, played by Varada Sethu take, with plenty of “The Well”, “Interstellar Song Contest” and some “The Story & the Engine”. The trailer was released in conjunction with a joint appearance by the pair on ABC’s Good Morning America. Gatwa subsequently appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, recalling things like finding out he got the part while on the set of Barbie and the excitement he got from Whovian Ryan Gosling.

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While the trailer did not give much new, Doctor Who Magazine issue 615 did, as well as SFX Magazine nabbing a tidbit from showrunner Russell T. Davies that Mrs. Flood, played by Anita Dobson will in fact be appearing in all eight episodes this upcoming season. What DWM has provided are previews of the first three episodes, previews which have been so courteously summarized. “The Robot Revolution”, written by Davies and directed by Peter Hoar: Under a starlit sky, two teenage sweethearts share a moment. Alan Daniel Budd (Jonny Green) presents Belinda with a certificate stating that he named a star in her honour: Miss Belinda Chandra. Seventeen years later, Belinda is working the night shift as a nurse at London’s Able Free Hospital. Later in the very early morning, Robots (voiced by Nicolas Briggs) smash their way into her London home. They’re from the planet Missbelindachandra One – and they want their queen back. Belinda is taken away in the Robot’s rocket. The robots are waging war against the human Missbelindachandrakind. The Missbelindachandrabots serve a single master: the A.I. Generator, a being of immense (processing) power and zero patience. Dare to disagree, and you’re fried to a crisp. It gets worse. The A.I. Generator wants to marry Belinda! Can the Doctor rescue Her Majesty Queen Belinda and quash the robot revolution?” The rest of the cast list includes Evelyn Miller, Max Parker, Nadine Higgin, Caleb Hughes, William Ellis, Jeffin Kunjumon, and Belinda Owusu.

“Lux”, also written by Davies and directed by Amanda Brotchie, as previously reported is set in Miami, 1952. The Doctor and Belinda investigate the disappearance of 15 people from the Palazzo Picture Palace cinema, where they encounter cartoon character Mr. Ring-a-Ding (voiced by Alan Cumming, putting on an American accent), a sinister, wisecracking new enemy who isn’t as two-dimensional as he first appears. Featuring hand-drawn, frame-by-frame animation by Framestore, the cast also includes Lucy Thackeray, Lewis Cornay, and another name familiar to American audiences, Linus Roache playing Reginald Pye. Roache is indeed British, but might be best known as Executive Assistant District Attorney Michael Cutter across the Law & Order franchise, last seen in 2012 on SVU, as well as David Wellington on the last two seasons of Homeland. How Pye factors into the story will have to wait for April 19.

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Finally, there’s “The Well”, airing April 26, written by Davies and Sharma Angel-Walfall, and directed by Brotchie. Stranded on the inhospitable Planet 6-7-6-7, the Doctor and Belinda team up with a platoon of troopers who have been sent to investigate Colony Base 15, a mining operation that they’ve lost contact with. Arriving at the installation they soon discover something is very wrong indeed, which reveals itself to be at the heart of the Doctor’s worst nightmares. Rose Ayling-Ellis’s character is finally revealed, and her name Aliss Fenly, a young deaf mother desperate to get home to her two-year-old daughter. While the Doctor can sign to her, the Troopers communicate with her via holographic subtitles, when they remember to actually use their holographic translators, worsening a tense situation when communication and trust break down. Christopher Chung’s Cassio Palin-Paleen, is the platoon’s second-in-command with an insubordinate streak, a fractious relationship with the leader, Shaya, played by Caoilfhionn Dunne, and conflicting priorities with the Doctor. The episode also features Annabel Brook and Beyagy Demba.

These episodes will be followed by “Lucky Day”, “The Story & the Engine”, the aforementioned “Interstellar Song Contest”, and the two-part finale “Wish World” and “The Reality War”, carrying every Saturday until May 31. A domestic linear time slot has not been confirmed, but the iPlayer release will be 8 AM, which equates to 3 AM Eastern and Midnight Pacific on Disney+. It’s one hell of a journey home.

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