Last year, the show made headlines for allegedly scrapping Millie Gibson’s companion Ruby Sunday – it was claimed she was being written out of the show in favour of a new companion played by Varada Sethu, and though things were eventually cleared up by showrunner Davies (who stated she was appearing in the second season after all), the confusion over the issue lingers.
Gatwa joined Doctor Who off the back of Sex Education, the wildly successful series that netted him multiple award nominations for his role as Eric Effiong and arguably claimed an equal viewership to Who thanks to its position as one of Netflix’s flagship shows.
But Gatwa’s potential departure, two years later (making him the shortest-lived modern Doctor to set foot in the Tardis, barring inaugural Who, Christopher Eccleston) comes on the back of a whole heap of bad headlines for the show.
In the last day or so, reports have been leaking that Ncuti Gatwa – the charismatic, ever-cheerful face of Doctor Who – is in fact set to quit the show, months before the second season airs.
There are rumours that the BBC’s deal with Disney+ (which reportedly tripled the show’s budget, by around £100m) is in trouble, and even that Doctor Who itself is in danger of being scrapped (though these reports have been labelled as “incorrect” by the BBC).
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