Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi will be appearing in the first episode of spin-off series ‘Class’.
Speaking about the show, Capaldi said: “The Doctor Who family is growing, and it’s fantastic to be able to welcome the young new cast of Class in to the Whoniverse.”
The news was revealed in a livestream featuring a Q&A with the main cast of the series, which also confirmed that the first two episodes of the series will be released on BBC Three on Saturday, October 22.
BBC America, who had previously acknowledged that the show would air in the US this year, has now confirmed that Class will air alongside Doctor Who’s 10th season in 2017.
Series creator Patrick Ness added: “At last, we can tell you a little more about Class! Though there are still many, many secrets to come. Many. Like, a lot. But of course the Doctor is in episode one! That’s how these things are done. Truly, though, I can’t wait for everyone to see the show; we’ve worked so hard and I’m so proud of it.”
The first episode will be called For Tonight We Might Die and it will immediately be followed by the second episode The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo.
According to the series synopsis, the show will centre on four alienated students at the fictional Coal Hill School in Shoreditch, which has featured regularly in Doctor Who since the series’ beginning.
The series will see the group "charged with a great responsibility by the mysterious alien known as the Doctor: guard against the creatures of nightmare that want nothing more than to find a way through to Earth and take it for their own."
The new show’s cast includes Coal Hill Academy classmates Charlie (Greg Austin), April (Sophie Hopkins), Ram (Fady Elsayed) and Tanya (Vivian Oparah), along with physics teacher Miss Quill (Katherine Kelly).
