Doctor Who‘s Christmas Special Looks Like a Festive Delight

San Diego Comic-Con mightiness beryllium sweltering successful the blistering summertime vigor close now, but Doctor Who doesn’t attraction astir right now. It’s already Christmas for our favourite Time Lord, and that means it’s clip for america to get a sneak glimpse astatine the 15th Doctor’s adjacent adventure.

Called “Joy to the World” and written by returning erstwhile showrunner (no, not that one) Steven Moffat, the Christmas peculiar stars Bridgerton‘s Nicola Coughlan. It sees the 15th Doctor flying solo for the archetypal clip since past year’s Christmas special, “The Church connected Ruby Road.” Although seemingly not for long, according to the time-hopping clip introduced by Coughlan herself at Doctor Who‘s Hall H sheet astatine Comic-Con, which introduces america to Joy, the Doctor’s never-ending quest to present a ham and food toastie with a pumpkin spice latte, and the astonishing instrumentality of a acquainted Doctor Who species. Check it retired below:

It’s an absorbing twist, considering we conscionable got the quality of Doctor Who spinoff The War Between Land and Sea, focusing connected the Sea Devils. The Silurians and Sea Devils arsenic abstracted evolutionary branches of the taxon who roamed Earth earlier humanity person ever had a kinship successful Doctor Who history, contempt showing up successful much stories abstracted from each different than not–they lone ever really teamed up erstwhile on-screen, successful the 1984 serial “Warriors of the Deep”. Between Christmas and a spinoff, things are looking up for our reptilian and amphibian Doctor Who baddies.

Doctor Who returns to BBC One and the BBC iPlayer successful the UK, and Disney+ internationally, this Christmas.

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