It feels like several eons have passed since we got our first look at Peter Capaldi as Doctor Who and even longer since we sniffled our goodbyes to Matt Smith and Season 7. Now we’re starting to get more bits of news trickling in about the upcoming season; today it’s guest stars.
Ben Miller is known to most of us as stuffed shirt Lester in Primeval, though he apparently has been famous over in the UK for being part of a comedy duo. Wow, who knew? More famous to many of us is Leo himself, Tom Riley of Da Vinci’s Demons, who’ll also be a Whovian guest, along with Keeley Hawes from the excellent MI-5 and Ashes to Ashes:
Ben Miller To Guest On Season Eight Of Doctor Who
Published: April 8, 2014
Ben Miller is set to guest star opposite Peter Capaldi when the new series of Doctor Who returns this year.
“As a committed Whovian, I cannot believe my luck in joining the Twelfth Doctor for one of his inaugural adventures, said Ben Miller. My only worry is that they’ll make me leave the set when I’m not filming.”
Miller achieved fame as half of comedy duo Armstrong and Miller before success in dramas, including Primeval and more recently, as DI Richard Poole, the central character in the first two season’s of the BBC’s Death in Paradise. Miller’s partner in comedy, Alexander Armstrong, appeared in Doctor Who’s 2011 Christmas Special, playing Reg Arwell, but its Miller’s first time on the show and he’ll be starring in an episode written by Mark Gatiss.
Steven Moffat, lead writer and executive producer, added, “Mark Gatiss has written us a storming villain for his new episode, and with Capaldi in the TARDIS, we knew we needed somebody special to send everybody behind the sofa. And quite frankly, it’s about time Ben Miller was in Doctor Who!”
Other familiar faces confirmed to join Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman in the new series, which premieres on BBC AMERICA later this year, include Tom Riley and Keeley Hawes.
Doctor Who, starring Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, and Samuel Anderson, premieres Season 8 later this year on BBC America.
