Doctor Who Season 15 Set Photos Teases New Details Of The Little Mermaid Star's Role

Summary New Doctor Who season 15 set photos reveal new details of Jonah Hauer-King's mysterious new character.

The images tease a potential darker side to the character, as it seems he may be connected to an unknown new organization with ties to the mysterious Conrad.

With previous set photos showing people protesting UNIT, Hauer-King's character could be tied to a replacement organization, which would complicate his seeming relationship with Ruby Sunday.

New Doctor Who season 15 set photos tease that The Little Mermaid's Jonah Hauer-King's new character could have a darker side, despite his potential connection to Millie Gibson's Ruby Sunday. The 2025 season of the long-running sci-fi series will see Ncuti Gatwa and Gibson return to the TARDIS, while Varada Sethu steps on board as a new companion. While Doctor Who season 14 is complete and ready to air in May, season 15 returned to filming in April following a brief break.

While Sethu's casting was recently confirmed, new evidence from the set of season 15 has hinted at a potential shock twist in the 2025 season finale. As shared by Doctor Who Filming Locations on Twitter, Hauer-King, who had previously been seen alongside Gibson to potentially play Ruby's currently unknown boyfriend, recent set photos have featured propaganda posters with him featured for an unknown organization. Featuring a crown logo last seen on police vehicles on set, the posters hint at some event occurring on May 24 while campaigning for a character named Conrad.

Click here to see the Doctor Who season 15 set photos of Hauer-King.

Will Doctor Who Season 15 See UNIT Replaced By Something More Sinister?

Within the Whoniverse, a companion or someone related to a companion not being all they seem isn't unprecedented, with both River Song (Alex Kingston) and The Master (John Simm) having disguised themselves as an ally to get closer to the Time Lord. As such, with Ruby potentially having her own adventures away from the Fifteenth Doctor following Doctor Who season 14, perhaps she will be an eyewitness to a changing Earth while the Doctor and Sethu's new character travel through the Time Vortex. Furthermore, previous reports from the set have already hinted at a major Earth-bound story.

Related 6 Burning Questions About Ruby Sunday Doctor Who Season 14 Needs To Answer Ruby Sunday is going to be a major part of the upcoming season of Doctor Who as Ncuti Gatwa's companion, but Ruby also has a mystery to be explored.

During the early days of Doctor Who season 15's production, scenes involving UNIT saw protestors calling out the organization for covering up major alien incidents. With a potential campaign being run by the mysterious crown logo organization, and vehicles featuring the branding, perhaps Hauer-King's character finds himself won over by their cause, complicating Ruby and the Doctor's relationship further. A darker possibility could be that Hauer-King himself is the mysterious Conrad, and may be playing a long game to seize the Earth from under the Doctor and his friend's noses.

No matter who Hauer-King's character may be, it is clear from the new revelation about his character that Doctor Who season 15 will bring high emotional stakes to its overall arc. With Ruby having already been seen alongside The Little Mermaid star's character across multiple episodes, it appears that he is set to play a major recurring role across the upcoming episodes. However, with the actor's involvement having yet to be confirmed despite his multiple appearances across the 2025 season's production, perhaps there is something familiar about Hauer-King's character that showrunner Russell T Davies is keen to hide.

Doctor Who season 14 debuts with a two-episode premiere on May 11 on Disney+ for international audiences, and on BBC iPlayer on May 10 for UK viewers, followed by a later broadcast on BBC One later that day.

Source: Doctor Who Filming Locations /Twitter