The Newest ‘Doctor Who’ Companion Will Be Ruby Sunday, Played By Millie Gibson

TV & Film

Nov 18

Millie Gibson — Image Source: Gizmodo Australia

Hello Ruby Sunday, it’s time to run. The 15th Doctor’s first companion has been announced, as well as the actress playing her. During the BBC Children in Need telethon, Coronation Street alum Millie Gibson was revealed to be playing Ruby Sunday. The companion will debut in Fifteen (played by Ncuti Gatwa) ’s first full story, the festive special, in 2023.

18-year-old Gibson is the youngest actress to play a companion in quite a while and brings with her a win for Best Young Performer at The British Soap Awards. Gibson is still early in her acting career, but her appearances in Butterfly and Love, Lies and Records have been noteworthy. Gatwa spoke highly, citing her strength, talent, sharpness, effervescence, and “a cheeky sparkle in her eye” and expressed great excitement to work with her. Shooting for Series 14 was previously reported to begin this month.

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Being a BBC titan, the long-running series has been associated with Children in Need, created in 1980. Both The Five Doctors and Dimensions in Time, the twentieth and thirtieth-anniversary specials for the show, aired during the event. Other scripted stories created for it include a minisode set in the immediate aftermath of Ten (played by David Tennant) ’s regeneration from Nine between the episodes “Parting of the Ways” and “The Christmas Invasion.” Two years later came “Time Crash,” another minisode where Ten meets the Fifth Doctor, whose actor Peter Davison is now Tennant’s father-in-law. For much of the years since, the show has provided episode previews to exhibit, usually the Christmas specials, so the reveal of the next companion is the largest contribution in this period by far.

Gatwa and Gibson’s 2023 festive season debut will be the fourth and final special to air, following three specials in November to celebrate the show’s 60th anniversary. Those will star Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and be the first stories to air on Disney+, the show’s new home outside of the United Kingdom and Ireland, where it remains on the BBC.