{"id":39089,"date":"2023-07-27T00:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/?p=39089"},"modified":"2023-07-26T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T11:23:53","slug":"is-sacha-dhawan-coming-back-to-doctor-who-as-the-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/2023\/07\/27\/is-sacha-dhawan-coming-back-to-doctor-who-as-the-master\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Sacha Dhawan Coming Back to Doctor Who as the Master?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There’s speculation that Sacha Dhawan might be returning to Doctor Who<\/em> as the Time Lord nemesis, the Master.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dhawan debuted in the role in Spyfall<\/em> opposite Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor, and when asked whether he’d be back under the stewardship of new showrunner, Russell T Davies, Sacha said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Well, I\u2019m involved in a few things that I can\u2019t talk about, so who knows? I\u2019m also creating my own stuff because I don\u2019t necessarily just want to be moving from job to job, but it\u2019s not always easy. The industry can feel quite isolating, but I\u2019m holding my nerve.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Of course, this might have nothing to do with Doctor Who<\/em>. Or it might have nothing to do with Doctor Who<\/em> on TV — he’s confirmed to be starring in his own audio spin-off from Big Finish… although there’s been a definite dearth of news about that for some time; could that be because Davies intends to use this Master on TV again, leaving a grey area when it comes to audio rights?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As is, Dhawan’s last appearance as the Master was in Whittaker’s swansong story, The Power of the Doctor<\/em>, and while he was seemingly killed, this is the Master we’re talking about<\/em>. He’s been killed loads of times, but always bounces back!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It might be nice to have a version of the Master stay on to face multiple Doctors; John Simm’s essentially bowed out with David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor — just like Tennant, though, he did come back, albeit alongside Missy, a future version of himself played by Michelle Gomez, in the multi-Master tale, World Enough and Time\/ The Doctor Falls<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The Master is dead; long live the Master!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"Is Sacha Dhawan Coming Back to Doctor Who as the 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