Actress Jemma Redgrave will reprise her role of Kate Lethbridge-Stewart for a planned “Doctor Who” spin-off series being created by incoming showrunner Russell T. Davies.
Davies or course originally revived “Doctor Who” back in 2005 and steered it through the Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant-led eras, along with creating several successful spin-offs including the darker and more adult-skewing “Torchwood” and the more kid-friendly “The Sarah Jane Adventures”.
Davies returns as the series enters the show’s new era with Ncuti Gatwa starring and which will see the budget upped and the show’s distribution being handled by the Disney+ service internationally outside the UK.
Davies has previously made it clear spin-offs will be coming as part of the new ‘Whoniverse’ with Marvel-style expansion plans in the works. One will be centered on the military research organization UNIT run by Kate, whilst another is rumored to focus on The Doctor’s monstrous enemies.
Redgrave has played the role across ten episodes of the series since 2012 – appearing alongside Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi and Jodie Whittaker’s Doctors, whilst UNIT itself has been a part of the franchise since the beginning.
Redgrave will reportedly reprise the role later this year for the “Doctor Who” Christmas special in December – the first to feature Gatwa’s new Doctor and following the three-episode 60th-anniversary specials featuring the return of David Tennant and Catherine Tate.
Davies is reportedly midway through the new season edit and told BBC Radio 2 this week that the fourth episode (of the planned eight-episode Season 14) is “one of the greatest things I’ve ever made in my life. I am very, very happy with it.”
Source: The Daily Mirror
