{"id":61994,"date":"2014-06-30T11:26:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T10:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=61994"},"modified":"2014-06-30T12:16:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T11:16:42","slug":"doctor-who-series-8-casts-michelle-gomez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/doctor-who-series-8-casts-michelle-gomez\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who Series 8 casts Michelle Gomez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/doctor-who-michelle-gomez.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61995\" alt=\"doctor-who-michelle-gomez\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/doctor-who-michelle-gomez.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/doctor-who-michelle-gomez.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/doctor-who-michelle-gomez-300x441.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michelle Gomez, the star of <strong><em>Green Wing<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Bad Education<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>The Book Group<\/em><\/strong>, has been cast in <strong><em>Doctor Who<\/em><\/strong> Series 8.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.co.uk\/tv\/s7\/doctor-who\/news\/a581121\/doctor-who-series-8-casts-bad-education-star-michelle-gomez.html#~oIF5ZlxzIw7WMT\">Digital Spy<\/a> reports that Gomez will be playing The Gatekeeper of the Nethersphere, about whom we know very little, except that she&#x2019;s got a slightly evil Mary Poppins look about her. Steven Moffat stated that &#x201C;I&#x2019;ve known Michelle for years, and I&#x2019;m thrilled to welcome her to <strong><em>Doctor Who<\/em><\/strong>. She&#x2019;s everything we need &#x2013; brilliant, Scottish, and a tiny bit satanic.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p>Gomez said &#x201C;Well, of course Peter Capaldi is our next Doctor, which makes complete sense. I&#x2019;m thrilled to join him.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<div><strong><em>Doctor Who<\/em> Series 8 begins 23 August 2014 on BBC One and BBC America.<\/strong>&#xA0;<strong>You can&#xA0;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Doctor-Who-50th-Anniversary-Special\/dp\/B00F37VHX4\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389117008&sr=8-1&keywords=doctor+who&tag=scifinowmag-21&link_code=as3&creative=9298&camp=2506\">buy&#xA0;<em>Doctor Who: The Day Of The Doctor<\/em>&#xA0;on DVD for &#xA3;9.99 at Amazon.co.uk.<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CIzgoB8pXuc\" height=\"347\" width=\"616\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Wing&#8217;s Michelle Gomez joins Doctor Who Series 8 as The Gatekeeper of the Nethersphere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":61995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[3446],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/doctor-who-michelle-gomez.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}