4 d. ago Andor season 2 release date, cast and plot as 'the best Star Wars series ever' returns

Disney+’s Andor is hailed as one of the best Star Wars spin-offs ever, but when does season two get started and what should fans expect?

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7 d. ago Doctor Who: The Robot Revolution on BBC One review: a new dream team is born

Varada Sethu more than holds her own against Ncuti Gatwa’s mercurial Time Lord in this fun space romp

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9 d. ago Who is starring in the new series of Doctor Who as Graham Norton confirmed to appear?

The newly regenerated Time Lord returns to our screens this weekend, but who else could we see?

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9 d. ago ‘I can’t believe I’m paid to watch Ncuti Gatwa!’: Doctor Who’s boundary

From being crowned Miss Newcastle to making waves in Star Wars’ first same-sex couple, the Doctor’s latest assistant has had a stellar rise to fame. The actor chats stunts, space and why she’s hungry for moreMost teenagers rebel against their parents in small ways: sneaking out, stealing a nip of Cointreau, arriving home past curfew. Not Varada Sethu, the Newcastle-raised actor who’s about to grace screens as new companion Belinda Chandra in the forthcoming season of Doctor Who. Her rebellion took on a go-big-or-go-home attitude befitting a future screen star: when she was 18 she entered, and subsequently won, the Miss Newcastle beauty pageant. “Oh my God, I thought that was gonna be buried somewhere!” she exclaims when I bring it up. The whole thing was “kind of an accident”, she explains: “My sister and I were walking around in Eldon Square shopping centre, and they asked us if we wanted to enter, and I thought: ‘Yeah, I’ll give it a go’ – I thought it might piss off my paren...

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9 d. ago Who is Varada Sethu, the Andor star set to be the new Doctor Who companion?

You may recognise the actor from Doctor Foster, Hard Sun and Hanna

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1 week ago Embittered burns surgeon dressed in camouflage tried to set fire to home of his doctor boss  

After trying to kill Graeme Perks, Peter Brooks was found on a park bench the next morning muttering about his 'life being ruined' and that he was 'going to be sacked from his job at the hospital'.

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2 w. ago Doctor Who star shuts down ‘woke’ criticisms: ‘We’re doing the right thing’

Sethu will be the Doctor’s companion in the new season

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2 w. ago BBC star feared she'd 'never work again' as she admits 'I was depressed'

Doctor Who star Varada Sethu has admitted that she was left feeling "depressed" at one point in her career.

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2 w. ago Real reason new Doctor Who companion was chosen for TARDIS role

Former Miss Newcastle Varada Sethu battled to become an actress and says that she and Ncuti Gatwa play time-travellers who 'really are equals'

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2 w. ago Varada Sethu says Doctor Who makers doing the ‘right thing’ with diversity

The Indian-born actress will join the series as Belinda Chandra, a new companion to the Doctor, played by Ncuti Gatwa.

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2 w. ago ‘Woke’ criticism of Doctor Who proves show on right track, says its newest star

Varada Sethu joining series as Doctor’s latest companion, marking first time Tardis team is wholly people of colourCriticisms that Doctor Who has become too “woke” prove the series is doing the right thing by being inclusive, its new star Varada Sethu has said.Sethu plays the Doctor’s latest travelling companion, Belinda Chandra, in new episodes airing next month. With Ncuti Gatwa returning as the Doctor, the pairing marks the first time a Tardis team will comprise solely people of colour. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Andor boss calls for Disney to make Star Wars horror movie and sitcom

It’s a bold proposition...

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3 w. ago Disney+'s 'best series' returns for season 2, but fans predict it'll end in tragedy

The second season of Star Wars: Andor is set to premiere in just under a month, and some fans are convinced that a major event from the Star Wars canon could be coming

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3 w. ago Doctor Who frontman Ncuti Gatwa brushes off axe fears as he and new companion Varada Sethu travel to New York's iconic Empire State Building ahead of show's return

Taking the TARDIS across the Atlantic, the pair travelled to the top of New York's iconic Empire State Building for a photocall.

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