Doctor WhoCasts Miriam Margolyes as Beep the Meep

In sentences that sound like shitposts but are in fact actual news , akin toBryce Dallas Howard Is Yaddle , the BBC has confirmed that one of Doctor Who ’s deep - cut villain for its sixtieth day of remembrance special , Beep the Meep , will be suitably voiced for such a triumphant restoration by acting picture Miriam Margolyes .

“ I ’m relieve I get down to figure out onDoctor Whobefore I died . With sci - fi you never jazz , ” Margolyessaid in a statementthat is also abut on shitpost - sounding territory . “ Thank you for making an quondam cleaning woman very happy . ”

Best known as a character actress across show in films such as Romeo + Juliet , Mulan , Happy Feet , Little Shop of Horrors , Yentl , Early Man , and many , many more appearances across stage , video , and film , the British - Australian actress will lend her outspoken chords to the Meep in the terzetto of day of remembrance special airing to celebrate Doctor Who ’s sixtieth birthday this November — presumably most notably in the first of the three , title “ The Star Beast . ”

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That name come fromthe 1980 amusing stripthat first introduced the Meeps , and their leader Beep , in the pages of Doctor Who Weekly — also famed as the first story to ever introduce a person of colouration as a long - term companion for the Doctor in any medium , Sharon Davies . Cutesy - looking furred creatures , the Meeps were actually bloody thirsty intergalactic conqueror after their peaceful civilization was radically transformed by pic to stellar radiation syndrome from a disastrous sun . Thinkkiller , constituent Furby . And then give it Miriam Margolyes ’ voice .

Doctor of the Church Who will return this November for three special episodes , starring David Tennant as the 14th Doctor , before returning again over the vacation season to first appearance Ncuti Gatwa ’s new Doctor .

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