Doctor Who’sSeason 13 Teaser Provides Villains Galore for Jodie Whittaker’s Final Season

Time has get along for the thirteenth Doctor . After months of teasing , and thelingering shadowof Jodie Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall’sexit from Doctor Who next year , the BBC has revealed just when we ’ll start the first steps on the road to the Doctor ’s end . Plus , our first look at season thirteen in a new puzzler .

Doctor Who ’s thirteenth time of year — unlucky for some — will begin October 31 , 2021 . The news was revealed by the BBC after a series of cryptical text and audio messages from the Doctor seek to reach out to the world from her TARDIS console elbow room , and after , uh , briefly deleting multiple officialDoctor Who social medium accounts . Everything ’s exquisitely now ! Except for all the monsters and threat to the population the Doctor and her friends are about to be dealing with .

or else of a serial publication of standalone tale , each of the eight episodes in time of year 13 will be colligate aspart of one great history — perhaps “ the Flux ” teased here . apart from setting the phase for Whittaker and Chibnall ’s exit next year ( the duo will bow out in a serial of three specials next yr , before returning showrunnerRussell T. Davies takes the reignsin 2023 ) , the season sees the thirteenth Doctor and Yaz ( Mandip Gill ) encounter two newfangled friends in their latest epical dangerous undertaking , one more down - to - earth than the other . The first is fresh companion Dan — play by comic John Bishop — ostensibly an ordinary homo being from contemporary Earth . You may recall he was first glimpsedat the very endof the New Year ’s Day special from earlier this twelvemonth , “ Revolution of the Daleks . ” He ’s also not the only new addition : firstrevealed at San Diego Comic - Con , a major guest actor across the raw season is Game of Thrones ’ Jacob Anderson , who will trifle futuristic young friend Vinder .