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We’ve had Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and we’re about to go back to school with Class but could there be room for another Doctor Who spin-off based entirely around a certain female Time Lord?
The Rani?
No, Missy!
If Michelle Gomez had her way, we soon could see the adventures of Missy Who…Yeah, that title needs work.
“Yes. There should be a Missy spin-off, that’s correct – I’m available for that, and why not? Missy Who,” Gomez said at this weekend’s Doctor Who Festival in London, though adding the cautionary note that “not many spin-offs tend to work.
“Apart from Frasier, obviously. That was very good.”
Toss salads and scrambled eggs aside, there’s the small matter of resolving Missy’s fate following the events of The Witch’s Familiar. The last time we saw Missy she seemed to strike a deal with her Dalek captors; so will we see her again before this season draws to a close?
“I just don’t know,” Gomez said. “I’ve asked, obviously, a lot. Insisted upon. But yeah, I dunno. Hope so.
“I’m doing everything I can – now it’s over to you.”
Gomez, who resides in New York, is still flabbergasted by the international success of Doctor Who.
“I don’t know whether it’s the sort of thing we Brits do, self-deprecation,” she said. “We feel like perhaps it’s more parochial, that it’s ours, that it’s maintained in this tiny island, and then it’s a surprise to find fezzes all over the world. And it’s just brilliant.
“This product, if you like, is able to really reach across the pond. And it doesn’t seem to have any cultural problems there, with regards to [viewers] being able to really enjoy it. It doesn’t seem to just be British. Or maybe it’s the Britishness they really enjoy. But yeah, it’s really successful.”
Do you miss Missy? Will she return for the finale? What other characters deserve their own spin-off?
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