Doctor Who Is Here to Inject Some Early Christmas Cheer Into Your Friday

A acquainted foe is going to marque their beingness felt successful “Joy to the World,” the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special. In a clip conscionable shared to societal media to boost foundation lawsuit Children successful Need, we spot Ncuti Gatwa‘s Doctor and impermanent prima Nicola Coughlan (playing a quality with the seasonally due sanction of Joy) confronting a sinister briefcase belonging to… yep, Villengard is back.

“Evil indispensable logo,” the Doctor advises his caller friend, arsenic helium uses the sonic screwdriver to scan the lawsuit and larn wherever it came from. “Villengard,” helium chuckles erstwhile helium realizes the truth. “Biggest arms shaper successful recorded history. Very aged enemies of mine.”

As you’ll spot successful the clip, the scan activates a communicator (a dapper Silurian) that engages them successful an ominous conversation, during which the Doctor tries his champion to crushed with a sinister firm hologram. Then… dinosaur? DINOSAUR!! Check it out:

Christmas successful November, courtesy of @BBCCiN! 🧸🎄

Watch a sneak preview of the upcoming #DoctorWho peculiar JOY TO THE WORLD… pic.twitter.com/pHLGJW9vkA

— Doctor Who (@bbcdoctorwho) November 15, 2024

Oh, fridge indeed! The little country gives america a small much item astir the Time Hotel crippled successful the Steven Moffat-scripted peculiar episode—and the writer is important, due to the fact that Moffat besides wrote “Boom,” an occurrence successful the astir caller play that saw the Doctor successful a high-stakes face-off with “the Villengard Algorithm.”

It besides fits into what Moffat teased astir the occurrence successful a caller interrogation with the BBC: “Imagine successful the acold far future… a edifice concatenation got clasp of the thought of clip travel. What’s the archetypal happening a edifice concatenation would bash if they had clip travel? They’d recognize they had an accidental to merchantability each the unsold nights successful their hotels successful history.” Add successful an apocalyptic twist and immoderate Christmas cheer, and you’ve got a festive acquisition from Doctor Who acceptable to deliver.

“Joy to the World,” Doctor Who‘s Christmas special, arrives December 25 connected Disney+ internationally and connected the BBC successful the UK. Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor volition instrumentality for his 2nd play of timey-wimey adventures successful 2025.

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