Miranda Hart Hadland, Tom Ellis, Patricia Hodge, James Holmes, and Sally Phillips. The series is based on Hart's semi-autobiographical writing and followed a television pilot and the BBC Radio 2 comedy "Miranda Hart's Joke Shop". Described as an "old-fashioned" sitcom, it received positive comments from critics and Hart won the 2009 Royal Television Society award for comedy performance for her role in the first series. A second series was commissioned and filming started in mid-2010. The series began airing on BBC Two and BBC HD on 15 November 2010. A third series began broadcasting from 26 December 2012 on BBC One. Repeats
Miranda (Doctor Who) infant Miranda away to the 20th century to protect her. However, they were discovered, and when her "parents" were killed by the rebels, the Doctor adopted her. Parkin has hinted that Miranda's father was actually a future incarnation of the Doctor, and in "Father Time" Miranda is described as looking "just like" her adoptive father. The Eighth Doctor raised Miranda until she was sixteen ("The Gallifrey Chronicles" reveals that the two shared at least one adventure during that time), at which point the rebels returned to kill her. However, Miranda ended up killing the leader of the rebels and fled