Lost in TIME!

NCUTI GATWA on why he's loving life in the TARDIS

- STEVEN PERKINS

After dicing with death on a far-away planet in last week's opening episode of the latest series of BBC1's sci-fi adventure Doctor Who, the Fifteenth Time Lord promised to take new companion Belinda Chandra safely home immediately.

However, something is preventing the two of them from returning to the day when no-nonsense nurse Belinda was abducted by alien robots, so now they're going to have to take the scenic route!

This week's instalment, Lux, sees the pair landing in 1952 Miami, where the Doctor (played by Ncuti Gatwa) can't resist showing Belinda (Varada Sethu) all the sights. But they wind up in mortal peril once more when a popular cartoon character called Mr Ring-a-Ding (voiced by The Traitors US host Alan Cumming, see box on opposite page) bursts out of a cinema screen and into the real world - and it's clear he has sinister intentions.

Here, Ncuti, 32, tells us why he's relishing this new batch of intergalactic escapades...

This is your second season as the Doctor, Ncuti. Will we see a new side to the character in this eight-part run?

Yes - we saw alittle bit of it in [2024 Christmas special] Joy to the World. I think there are a couple of moments where the Doctor gets quite mean in order to achieve the greater good, and times where you see darker, more vindictive elements of them. That was exciting, because I hadn’t seen that before.