Doctor Who’s Mandip Gill will be a new mum facing a literal nightmare scenario in new horror short Hush Little One, coming to film festivals this spring
Doctor Who star Mandip Gill is starring in the new short horror film Hush Little One. The actor, who played the Doctor’s companion Yaz Khan between 2018 and 2022, will play new mother Maya. However, darkness threatens to consume Maya and her baby when the child’s nightmares begin to manifest is physical form in the shadows of their home.
Hush Little One will tour film festivals throughout 2026 and has been described by producers Rebel Yeah! as a “proof of concept” for a feature length version of the story. Whether Mandip Gill will also star as Maya in any feature adaptation is unclear for now.
Hush Little One continues a busy post-Doctor Who career for Mandip Gill. Can You Keep a Secret?, the sitcom starring Dawn French, Mark Heap as a married couple defrauding their insurance company by faking the husband’s death, and Gill as their police officer daughter-in-law, has just finished its first season on BBC One and received a warm reception from audiences and critics alike. Meanwhile, last December she starred as DC Diane Fry in Five’s detective series Cooper and Fry, alongside Downton Abbey’s Robert James-Collier as DC Ben Cooper. Earlier last year, she also has a lead role in near future dystopian series Curfew.
There’s no word yet on second season renewals for either Can You Keep a Secret? or Cooper and Fry. However, it seems likely. Certainly in the case of Cooper and Fry, there are still fourteen more novels in the original series to adapt, so there’s plenty of material with which to continue the show.
In the meantime, Hush on Film will receive its premiere on the 20th of March at Ashford Cinema as part of the Kent on Film weekend.
