Doctor Who fans across the pond will be able to enjoy the new Doctor Who spin off, Class, when it premieres on its co-producer’s channel BBC America later this year, it has been confirmed.

The 8-part series, created and written by award-winning Young Adult fiction author Patrick Ness, will follow a group of students at Coal Hill School whose lives are turned upside down by the terrifying prospects of growing up… with added monsters. Filming will begin in Cardiff in the spring and it will air on BBC Three in the UK.

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