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Wherefore Doctor Who ? After months of speculation, the series bowed out spectacularly in June , when Ncuti Gatwa’s Fourteenth Doctor regenerated into Billie Piper .

Yes, you read that right. Now, unsurprisingly, the show is on hiatus (I assume Billie Piper did not want to return for a Christmas special), which means our annual dose of Who comes from this wordily titled spinoff .

Penned, once again, by Russell T. Davies , The War Between the Land and the Sea takes us away from high-octane chase sequences and Daleks in favour of, um, diplomacy.

After millennia spent believing themselves the superior lifeforms on the planet, the human race is in for a rude awakening. The Sea Devils (diplomatically renamed Homo Aqua following their 1972 debut in the ninth seas

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