Post by Ripley on Apr 5, 2016 13:32:49 GMT -5
AMC press release for casting for "Class" announced. The Doctor Who spinoff is set is a school although no former major cast members are part of the project. The spinoff is more a YA project targeting tweens rather than adults in look and feel although tough issues will be included in typical DW style.
"New York, NY – April 4, 2016 –Announced today, the stars of BBC AMERICA’s Doctor Who spin-off series Class – exciting young new talents Greg Austin, Fady Elsayed, Sophie Hopkins and Vivian Oparah. They will be joined by Katherine Kelly, as she takes the role of a teacher and powerful new presence at Coal Hill School.
These four Coal Hill School students have hidden secrets and desires. They are facing their own worst fears, navigating a life of friends, parents, school work, sex, sorrow – and possibly the end of existence.
Coal Hill School has been a part of the Doctor Who universe since the very beginning, but that has come at a price. All the time travelling over the years has caused the very walls of space and time to become thin. There’s something pressing in on the other side, something waiting for its chance to kill everyone and everything, to bring us all into Shadow..."
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