Physician Who Spinoff The Warfare Between The Land And The Sea Launch Date Revealed

The upcoming Physician Who spinoff, The Warfare Between the Land and the Sea, has an official UK launch date. The five-episode miniseries, created and written by present and former Physician Who showrunner Russell T. Davies, stars Russell Tovey, Gugu Mbatha-Uncooked, and Physician Who legend Jemma Redgrave because the people and the “Homo Aqua,” previously often called the Sea Devils, collide.

Now, Davies and the BBC have introduced that the sequence will premiere within the UK on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Sunday, December 7, dropping two episodes without delay. Episodes 3 and 4 of The Warfare Between the Land and the Sea shall be launched on December 14, and the finale will premiere on December 21. Try Davies’ announcement publish under:

The publish additionally confirms that the restricted sequence shall be distributed internationally by means of Disney+ in 2026, although a precise launch date has but to be revealed. The Warfare Between the Land and the Sea‘s early UK launch has been rolled out swiftly following the information that the partnership between the BBC and Disney has formally been dissolved. The Warfare Between is the ultimate Physician Who mission co-produced by Disney.

Regardless of the change, the BBC stays dedicated to its long-running, flagship sci-fi sequence. The British community has already introduced a 2026 Physician Who Christmas particular, which is able to presumably reply the questions left by former companion Billie Piper’s shock regenerative look within the season 2/15 Physician Who finale, “The Actuality Warfare.”

First, although, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart’s (Redgrave) UNIT should face the wrath of the Homo Aqua in The Warfare Between the Land and the Sea, led by Mbatha-Uncooked’s character, Salt, as they search retribution for the years of human air pollution and the destruction of their underwater homeworld. Caught between the 2 warring sides is Russell Tovey’s Barclay, a human negotiator determined to maintain the peace between UNIT and the creatures of the ocean.

Try the trailer under:

Anybody anticipating the Physician’s TARDIS to look could also be dissatisfied, although Davies just lately defined that The Warfare Between‘s story can be “more durable” than any prior Physician Who journey. “There are issues right here that will by no means occur in a Physician Who story. It’s in the identical universe, however only a totally different slant. I’m actually happy with it,” Davies defined.

The Physician Who mastermind additionally described the sequence as “a spectacular Christmas deal with,” crammed with “heroes and monsters and battles and romance.” If the trailer’s footage is something to go by, The Warfare Between the Land and the Sea shall be a tense, charged, and socially related Physician Who-adjacent story.

The Warfare Between the Land and the Sea premieres on BBC One and BBC iPlayer within the UK on Sunday, December 7. It can arrive on Disney+ internationally in 2026.