“Doctor Who” has returned.

The legendary British sci-fi series, which first debuted back in 1963 and ran until 1989 before being resurrected, in earnest, in 2005, has just started a new season on Disney+ and the BBC. It is the second season of the newly co-produced series, with the effervescent Ncuti Gatwa returning as the titular Doctor, alongside executive producer and head writer Russell T. Davies. Millie Gibson also returns as Ruby Sunday, the previous season’s companion. But this year she is joined by Varada Sethu as companion Belinda Chandra.

But wait. Didn’t Sethu already appear in the series? In last season’s Steven Moffat-penned “Boom?”

Well, yes.

“One day, we started looking for Belinda. And we did audition a lot of people. We must have had about 30 different auditions, and in the middle of that process, I was mid-edit on ‘Boom,’ and all of a sudden I went, Well,...See full article at The Wrap