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Ryan Britt

The Oldest Sci-Fi Show Just Brought Back a Weird Spinoff That's Impossible to Watch

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In the Doctor Who Season 1 (2024) finale “Empire of Death,” the 15th Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) travel the universe in the TARDIS, along with one-time-companion of the 6th and 7th Doctors, Melanie Bush (Bonnie Langford). For longtime fans, having people travel through all of time and space with the Doctor in the TARDIS shouldn’t sound too weird. And yet, in “Empire of Death” the exact version of the TARDIS that Mel, Ruby, and the Doctor are rocking will seem super unfamiliar to nearly all fans of the show in the U.S.

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