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Doctor Who: With Season 3 Uncertain, Ncuti Gatwa Is Going "Wilde"

If Season 3 of Doctor Who gets greenlit, it can't filmed until 2025. Ncuti Gatwa is set for Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.


Ncuti Gatwa is busy for the rest of 2024, starring in a new West End Production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which means that if there is any Series 3 filming on the new Doctor Who, it won't be until 2025. That's okay since Series 3 of Doctor Who hasn't been officially commissioned by the BBC and Disney yet, and The Importance of Being Earnest is a great play – one of the funniest ever written, and its subversive, gleeful satire suits Gatwa to a T.

Doctor Who Won't Be Shooting Till 2025 While Gatwa Stars in Great Play
Poster art: National Theatre

From Doctor Who to Oscar Wilde for Ncuti Gatwa

"A Trivial Comedy for Serious People: Being sensible can be excessively boring. At least, Jack thinks so. While assuming the role of dutiful guardian in the country, he lets loose in town under a false identity. Meanwhile, his friend Algy takes on a similar facade. Unfortunately, living a double life has its drawbacks, especially when it comes to love. Hoping to impress two eligible ladies, the gentlemen find themselves caught in a web of lies they must carefully navigate."

Max Webster (Donmar's MacbethLife of Pi) directs a joyful and flamboyant reimagining of Oscar Wilde's most celebrated comedy. Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke (Ma Rainey's Black BottomDoctor Who) is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor WhoSex Education) and Hugh Skinner (W1AMamma Mia! Here We Go Again) in this hilarious story of identity, impersonation and romance.

Hey, you loved "Rogue," didn't you? That was the episode of Doctor Who where the Doctor and Ruby were cosplaying at Bridgerton in Regency England. Well, if you're lucky enough to be in London anytime between November 20th and January 25th, 2025, and even luckier to get a ticket to the play, you can watch it and pretend the Fifteenth Doctor is having fun cosplaying as a rich gentleman of leisure in Victorian England. Algernon "Algy" Moncrieff, the hero's best friend in The Importance of Being Earnest, is the one who causes a lot of the farce to happen because he's a gleefully amoral and fun-loving scammer who loves messing with everyone and has the funniest lines in the play – and some of the funniest lines ever written. Who wouldn't want to see Ncuti Gatwa play that role?

So this means Gatwa won't be filming any Doctor Who until after next January, assuming Season Three gets greenlit. And Millie Gibson is shooting a new miniseries of the classic novel The Forsyte Saga for ITV this year anyway.

Tickets to The Importance of Being Earnest are now available for pre-order. Season Two of Doctor Who is already in postproduction and will be streaming sometime in 2025.


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Adi TantimedhAbout Adi Tantimedh

Adi Tantimedh is a filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist. He wrote radio plays for the BBC Radio, “JLA: Age of Wonder” for DC Comics, “Blackshirt” for Moonstone Books, and “La Muse” for Big Head Press. Most recently, he wrote “Her Nightly Embrace”, “Her Beautiful Monster” and “Her Fugitive Heart”, a trilogy of novels featuring a British-Indian private eye published by Atria Books, a division Simon & Schuster.
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