Disney+ and the BBC have revealed that Doctor Who Season 2 will premiere on the streaming platform on Saturday, April 12, at 12 a.m. PT and 3 a.m. ET., with UK audiences able to watch on the BBC and stream it on iPlayer same day.
The eight-episode second season (Season 15 overall) will then premiere new episodes weekly.
Alan Cumming is also set to guest star in the second episode of the second season and voice the character Mr. Ring-a-Ding, a happy, funny, singalong cartoon who lives in Sunny Town with his friend Sunshine Sally.
However, in 1952, after years of repeats in cinemas across the land, Mr Ring-a-Ding suddenly looks beyond the screen and sees the real world outside — and the consequences are terrifying, Disney+ teased.
This is not the first time that The Traitors U.S. host appears in the Whoniverse. Cumming played King James I in a 2018 Doctor Who episode titled “The Witchfinders.”
“Only Alan Cumming could give a runaway cartoon so much wit, malice, danger and fun. He makes the whole universe of Doctor Who wilder and madder than ever, and it’s an absolute honor to welcome him on board the TARDIS,” showrunner, executive producer and writer Russell T Davies said.
Mr Ring-A-Ding (Alun Cumming)
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The cast of Doctor Who includes Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor, Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra and Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday.
In Season 2 of the long-running series The Doctor meets Belinda Chandra and begins an epic quest to get her back to Earth. But a mysterious force is stopping their return and the time-traveling TARDIS team must face great dangers, bigger enemies and wider terrors than ever before.
Rose Ayling-Ellis, Christopher Chung, Anita Dobson, Michelle Greenidge, Jonah Hauer-King, Ruth Madeley, Jemma Redgrave, and Susan Twist are guest actors for the second season.
Doctor Who is produced by Bad Wolf, with BBC Studios for Disney Branded Television, BBC One, and BBC iPlayer.
‘Doctor Who’ Season 2 on Disney+
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‘Doctor Who’ Season 2 on Disney+
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