'Doctor Who' Spinoff Has First Readthrough
'The War Between The Land & The Sea' was officially confirmed at San Diego Comic-Con
It’s an Allons-y to The War Between the Land and the Sea. Monday saw the first read-throughs for the Doctor Who spinoff miniseries, which was finally confirmed last month at San Diego Comic-Con. Creator and showrunner Russell T. Davies posted to Instagram his seat during it to mark the occasion.
He wrote, tagging the broadcasting parties of the BBC, iPlayer, and Disney+, “Day One. The war begins. Readthrough day for all 5 episodes of THE WAR BETWEEN THE LAND AND THE SEA. So much excitement. What a cast! Thrills, deaths, chases, fish, and seven seas of danger. Can’t wait!” The read-through happened on the soundstage set that has the exterior doors to the UNIT tower helipad. Davies’s photo also had some of the actors visible, but way out of focus.
Luckily, sources could pick out at least some of who was who. Gugu Mbatha-Raw can be picked out fourth from the left followed left to right by Jemma Redgrave, who reprises her role as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, Alexander Devrient, reprising as Colonel Ibrahim and the indeed returning Ruth Madeley, who made her debut as Shirley Anne Bingham in the main show’s 60th anniversary special “The Star Beast”, returned in the final special “The Giggle” but was absent for the recent UNIT-featuring two-part season finale “The Legend of Ruby Sunday” and “Empire of Death”. The rest of the cast in the photo including the presence of main cast member Russell Tovey was not as discernible as the rest.
The given synopsis reads “When a fearsome and ancient species emerges from the ocean, dramatically revealing themselves to humanity, an international crisis is triggered. With the entire population at risk, UNIT step into action as the land and sea wage war.” The Sea Devils, an ancient race that have been slumbering beneath the oceans, wake up to the polluted state of the oceans and are not happy. The five-episode miniseries coming to BBC, iPlayer, and Disney+ is directed by Dylan Holmes-Williams, director of last season’s “73 Yards” and “Dot and Bubble”. Davies wrote this series with Who veteran Pete McTighe, who wrote Thirteenth Doctor-era episodes “Kerblam!” from series 11 and “Praxeus” from series 12, as well as the wraparound segments of the Tales of the TARDIS for The Mind Robber and The Curse of Fenric.
Source: Cultbox