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John Bishop joins Doctor Who for series 13
With Graham (Bradley Walsh) and Ryan (Tosin Cole) bidding farewell to the show with yesterday’s Holiday Special episode ‘Revolution of the Daleks’, the BBC has announced that comedian and actor John Bishop is set to join Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor and Mandip Gill’s Yasmin as new companion Dan in the upcoming thirteenth series of
Doctor Who.
“If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the TARDIS, I would never have believed it,” said Bishop (via Deadline). It’s an absolute dream come true to be joining
Doctor Who new year special recap – Revolution of the Daleks Martin Belam
“I’d rather not have met her. Because having met her, and then being without her, that’s worse”
Let’s get the Judoon in the room out of the way. That episode was no Robot of Sherwood, Jo Patterson was no Harriet Jones, and I’m no Dan Martin. All of us at the Guardian were devastated to lose Dan in 2020, but we didn’t want the festive special of Doctor Who to pass without giving you a chance to pay a tribute to him, or to discuss a New Year’s Day special that was … well … uneven at best.