This terrifying Doctor Who monster has just been spotted in Cardiff Bay
As anyone that’s grown up watching Doctor Who will know, the Time Lord’s had some pretty scary enemies over the millennia.
Daleks, the Daemons, Nimons and the Weeping Angels – to name but a few – have all, at one time or another, had kids of all ages cowering behind the sofa.
And that familiar hiding place looks like it might be getting a lot renewed use if the frankly terrifying creature is anything to go by.
Pictured earlier today in Cardiff Bay, during a shoot for the upcoming new series of the sci-fi favourite, this so-far nameless horror – part zombie, part vampire, all ugly – looked to be preaching to a mob of blue boiler suited disciples.
Elsewhere on the Mount Stuart Square set were the mysterious masked gunmen spotted during filming last month outside Cardiff University.
As revealed at the start of 2017, this latest season of the BBC Wales time-travelling space saga will be the last to feature Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor, an announcement which has predictably caused a flurry of speculation over who might succeed him in the role.
Bond star Ben Whishaw, IT Crowd’s Richard Ayoade and Harry Potter’s Rupert Grint have all been earmarked by the bookies as possible replacements, while Sherlock’s Amanda Abbington and Olivia Colman have been mentioned as contenders should the programme’s new showrunner – Broadchurch’s Chris Chibnall – decide a change of sex is what the Gallifreyan needs come his next regeneration.
Meanwhile, Capaldi himself has put forward his own choice of successor – 72-year-old former Rising Damp star Frances de la Tour.
“The time felt right to bow out, to let somebody else play this wonderful role and I would like Frances de la Tour to be first female doctor,” Capaldi told The Mirror, acknowledging the actress’ 50-year showbiz career in which she’s also played half-giantess headmistress Madame Olympe Maxime in the Harry Potter films and featured alongside Iwan Rheon and Sir Ian McKellen in the sitcom Vicious.
Whatever would Rigsby say?