Doctor Who Vs. Broadchurch, Series 2

Whilst the first run of this multi-

award winning crime drama
focused on the hunt for a child
killer, this second season con-
centrated on the subsequent
trial of prime suspect Joe Miller,
and the reopening of another
murder case.
Series creator Chris Chibnall 
again scripted this whole season
(following the American remake,
entitled Gracepoint) which began

a repeat run on ITV3 last night.

David Tennant and Olivia Colman

reprised their roles as detective

 partners, DI Hardy and DS Miller.

First aired in January and February

2015, the new eight-part case

(averaging ten million viewers),

starred Jodie Whittaker, Andrew

Buchan, Arthur Darvill, Adjoa

Andoh, Eve Myles, Charlotte Rampling, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Phoebe

Waller Bridge, and a total of twenty-seven further Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• for Jonathan Bailey, Carolyn Pickles, Matthew Gravelle, Joe Sims, Peter De Jersey, Julian Seager, Amanda Drew, James Strong and Ray Holman see Series 1
• James [born Simon] D'Arcy (Ashworth) voiced Michael for Big Finish's Paradise 5 (2010)
• Shaun Dooley (Gillespie) was Epzo in The Ghost Monument
• Gbemisola Ikumelo (PC Stewart) voiced Morandi for White Ghosts (2014), and Prim for The Boundless Sea (2016)
• Meera Syal (Judge) was Nasreen Choudhry in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood, was Narrator of BBC Audio's The Gemini Contagion (2011) and Borrowed Time (2012), then voiced Arla Decanto for The Truth of Peladon (2022)
• Alan Bond (Solicitor) was a UNIT Soldier in The Sound of Drums, Last of the Time Lords and Torchwood: Children of Earth
• Daniel Hill (Judge) was Chris Parsons in Shada, and voiced Percy Noggins for AudioGo's The Stuff of Nightmares (009)
• Janet Dibley (Moore) voiced Commander Flail for The Black Hole (2015)
• Phil Nice (Darlington) was Henry in Kill the Moon
• Jenny Bede (Laura) voiced Florrie for Absolute Power (2016)
• David Ellis (Visitor) was a Spectator in The Woman Who Lived
• Brendan Murphy (Waiter) was cast in the title role for The Tribulations of Thadeus Nook (2021)
• Bern Collaco (Guard) was an Operator in The Return of Doctor Mysterio, and Soldier in Thin Ice
• Dean Forster was also a stuntman on nine adventures (from The Christmas Invasion to Robot of Sherwood)
• stunt performer Rachelle Beinart was Goblin in The Church on Ruby Road
• Richard Rowntree was also the greensman on forty-one stories (from The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe to The Husbands of River Song)
• Geoff Holloway was also an electrician on The Christmas Invasion, Closing Time and The Day of the Doctor
• both Ian Fowler and Andrea Mear were also costume assistants on twenty-four episodes (from Into the Dalek to The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos) and another fifteen (from The End of the World to The Woman Who Fell to Earth) respectively