Physician Who often likes to avoid wasting its returning stars for anniversary occasions, however with the upcoming trilogy of specials to have fun its blockbuster sixtieth already jam-packed, now it’s as much as Physician Who’s 14th season to shoulder just a few shock appearances—and its newest definitely is sort of the shock.
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At the moment the BBC confirmed that Bonnie Langford would reprise her position as Melanie Bush, ‘80s companion to the Sixth and Seventh Docs, within the subsequent season of the present alongside Ncuti Gatwa’s fifteenth Physician and Millie Gibson as incoming companion Ruby Sunday.
“I’m completely thrilled to be bringing Melanie Bush again. To be a part of the distinctive forged, crew and manufacturing crew led by the power of nature that’s Russell T Davies is a profession spotlight,” Langford stated in an announcement. “I’m so privileged and proud to have been a member of the Physician Who household because the traditional period and to be included within the new technology is phenomenal.”
That is truly not the primary time Langford has reprised the position of Mel just lately—she made a minor cameo look in “The Energy of the Physician,” Jodie Whittaker’s swan track because the thirteenth Physician. However based on returning showrunner Davies, this time Mel can be again within the thick of it alongside the Physician.
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“Open these TARDIS doorways broad, as a result of Bonnie’s again! What an honor, delight, and hoot to welcome again the character of Melanie, after too lengthy away,” Davies added in his personal assertion. “And this isn’t only a cameo, Bonnie is correct within the thick of the motion, battling monsters and chaos and cliffhangers, proper on the Physician’s aspect, identical to the previous days.”
It’s a stunning transfer, on condition that whereas Langford has at all times been an ardent supporter of Who since her tenure on the collection, the character of Mel has lengthy been seen as one thing of annoyance slightly than a very engaged character within the eyes of followers. An excessively enthusiastic health fanatic, Mel is finest remembered for primarily one character trait: her ear-splitting shriek when within the presence of something even remotely harmful. Response to the character was so poor that Mel was quickly written out after Sylvester McCoy’s tenure started, rapidly packing her off with the house pirate Sabalom Glitz in the identical story that launched Sophie Aldred’s Ace, a companion who time has been significantly a lot kinder too (and likewise final appeared in Whittaker’s closing story final 12 months, albeit in a a lot larger supporting position).
Hopefully time and house, metaphorically and fairly actually, will result in Mel getting the type of justice she by no means actually bought in her prior time within the TARDIS within the right here and now—and create an all-new legion of followers for the character. Langford will return within the 14th season of Physician Who, anticipated to start airing someday in 2024 on BBC 1 within the UK and on Disney+ internationally.
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