\t\t\tBillboard Women in Music 2025\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\tVarada Sethu, the new star of Doctor Who<\/a>, has defended the BBC<\/a> and Disney<\/a>+ series against claims it has gone \u201cwoke.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn an interview with the Radio Times, the new companion to Ncuti Gatwa\u2019s Time Lord said that the \u201cwoke\u201d barb means the drama is simply doing the right thing in being inclusive.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThere\u2019s been a couple of Doctor Woke [references] or whatever, but I just think we\u2019re doing the right thing if we\u2019re getting comments like that,\u201d Sethu said.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWoke just means inclusive, progressive and that you care about people. And, as far as I know, the core of Doctor Who is kindness, love and doing the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSethu and Gatwa\u2019s pairing means that two people of color will pilot the Tardis for the first time in Doctor Who\u2019s history. \u201cNcuti was like, \u2018Look at us. We get to be in the Tardis. We\u2019re going to piss off so many people\u2019,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe really are equals in the way that we interact with each other. Russell [T Davies] wanted someone who can push back and not be in awe of this all-powerful being.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSeason 15 of Doctor Who will premiere on the BBC and Disney on April 12 amid uncertainty over the futures of both Gatwa and showrunner Davies.<\/p>\n \n\tIt is also unclear if Disney will continue to co-produce Doctor Who beyond 2025. The Mouse House\u2019s commitment is critical to budgets, storylines, and casting, meaning its withdrawal could mean major changes to the show. Doctor Who\u00a0fans will likely have to wait until at least 2027 before a follow-up to this year\u2019s season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billboard Women in Music 2025 Varada Sethu, the new star of Doctor Who, has defended the BBC and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[192,822,823,824,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-1208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-belinda-chandra","10":"tag-disney","11":"tag-doctor-who","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114266537062437686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}