Sure, it may have been less than six months since we last saw Ncuti Gatwa’s 15th Doctor at the helm of the TARDIS, holding back the tears after ‘Empire Of Death”s emotional finale, but we’ve been missing our favourite Time Lord all the same. Handily then, with Christmas right around the corner, the BBC has just dropped the first trailer for ‘Joy To The World’, Doctor Who‘s upcoming Christmas special. Poured from the pen of former showrunner and ‘Boom‘ writer Steven Moffat, guest starring the great Nicola Coughlan, and promising some multiverse type wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey shenanigans, it’s already shaping up to be prime post-roast viewing come Christmas Day. Check out the teaser below:
“We’re doing a special — Christmas, everywhere, all at once,” says Joel Fry, playing some sort of cosmic concierge, at the start of this tantalising minute-long teaser. But despite the _Everything Everywhere All At Once_ness of his proclamation (and the multiple Gatwas we see gadding about later on), this is a distinctly Whovian, delightfully raucous affair through and through. You’ve got the quirky festive special companion, Coughlan’s immaculately dressed Joy; there’s a lasso-wielding Doctor straddling a steam train as snow pours all around; there’s dinosaurs roaring at our dynamic duo; and there’s a typically Moffatian massive question — “What’s the biggest mystery in the known universe?” We dunno, maybe how Ncuti Gatwa manages to look so damn cool in everything he wears? Hmm…
Here’s the official synopsis for the Special: “Joy (Coughlan) checks into a London hotel in 2024, only to discover that her quiet stay is anything but ordinary. When Joy opens a secret doorway to the Time Hotel, she discovers danger, dinosaurs and the Doctor. But a deadly plan is unfolding across the Earth, just in time for Christmas. Where has the Doctor been? What is going on in Joy’s hotel room? An old enemy of the Doctor’s is lurking in the wings and all of human history hangs in the balance. Can the Doctor save Christmas, everywhere, all at once?”
We’ll find out the answers to all of those questions when the Doctor(s) returns to our screens in ‘Joy To The World’ on BBC One and iPlayer, Christmas Day.