The Doctor Who Christmas special might see a regeneration
The Doctor Who Christmas Special 2021 is sure to be a cracker and is likely to be a key part of the BBC’s Christmas TV line-up. It’s always something for all the family to enjoy.
OK, Christmas may be a long while off, but that just gives us more time to be excited about it!
Doctor Who 2021 Christmas special release date
The BBC is yet to announce when the Doctor Who 2021 Christmas special will be on. The special went out on New Year’s Day last time, so it could well be on New Year’s Day again. Amazingly, Jodie Whittaker is still to enjoy a Doctor outing on Christmas Day itself. Yep, the last episode of Doctor Who to actually be broadcast on Christmas Day was in 2017. The episode called Twice Upon a Time and guest starred David Bradley as the First Doctor and Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor.
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From 2005 to 2017, the Doctor Who Christmas specials were tipsy indulgences, often overblown but fully flavoured. Under current showrunner Chris Chibnall’s watch, the special lands on New Year’s Day, where it docks in 2021 as a more temperate proposal: the meat ‘n’ veg version of Who to the feasts of Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies, solid yet a little stodgy.
Starting where 2019’s ‘Resolution’ left off, ‘Revolution’ chugs into gear slowly. Despite the hooks of new Daleks, companion departures and returning pals, it opens on Chris Noth’s Trump-ish hotelier Jack Robertson, first seen in 2018’s ‘Arachnids In The UK’ and here found spying business opportunities in the Dalek casing left over from ‘Resolution’. The display of his Dalek ‘defence drones’ adds a playful
The Doctor Who Christmas Special 2020 sees the Time Lord trapped in an alien prison.
The Doctor Who Special promises to be one of the highlights of the BBC’s Christmas TV schedule. Here’s how to watch the Doctor Who Christmas special 2020 online anywhere in the world.
The festive episode will see the return of the Doctor’s most famous and most feared enemies – yes, the Daleks are back.
Two of the Doctor’s pals will bid her farewell in the New Year’s Day episode (Picture: BBC)
The Time Lord is locked away in a high-security alien prison, continuing from where the last series left off, and the Doctor is alone and can’t see anyway of escape.