The full cast list for The Bells of Saint John is now up on the BBC site and it may have revealed a returning character. As such spoilerphobes should probably avoid reading any further.
Cast: show
- The Doctor – Matt Smith
- Clara – Jenna-Louise Coleman
- Miss Kizlet – Celia Imrie
- Mahler – Robert Whitlock
- Alexei- Dan Li
- Nabile – Manpreet Bachu
- Paul – Sean Knopp
- The Abbott – James Greene
- George – Geff Francis
- Angie – Eve de Leon Allen
- Artie Kassius – Carey Johnson
- Little Girl – Danielle Eames
- Barista – Fred Pearson
- Waitress – Jade Anouka
- Newsreader – Olivia Hill
- Child Reading with Comic – Isabella Blake-Thomas
- Man with Chips – Matthew Earley
- Pilot – Antony Edridge
- The Great Intelligence – Richard E Grant
So the listing includes Richard E Grant. As most of you will recall, he played Doctor Simeon in The Snowmen. Curiously Grant is listed as playing The Great Intelligence here, the disembodied entity Ian McKellen voiced in the same episode. Is this a mistake or a spoiler?
On another note, Eve de Leon Allen’s character Angie will have a recurring role in the second half. She appears again in The Last Cyberman (it was her script that was lost last year).
UPDATE: Richard E Grant has subsequently been removed from the listing but it is preserved here.
