‘Tis the season for Physician Who‘s returned annual custom of a Christmas particular, and there’s an additional current beneath the tree this yr… within the form of an additional fifteenth Physician.
The BBC and Disney simply launched the primary trailer for “Pleasure to the World”, this yr’s Physician Who Christmas particular. Penned by former showrunner–and scribe of final season’s greatest episode–Steven Moffat, the episode sees the Physician run into the titular Pleasure (Nicola Coughlan) at a high-tech temporal lodge providing company an opportunity to go to each Christmas ever by means of time-travel expertise. However the actual twist right here is that, by means of presumably timey-wimey antics, the Physician’s actual foil this festive season is himself.
Other than doubled-up antics, the trailer makes it appear to be we’re going to get the Physician making a very attention-grabbing examination of himself. Past the gags of the Physician discovering his personal Physician-ness extraordinarily irritating to take care of when he’s on the receiving finish of it, “Pleasure to the World” appears prefer it’s going to discover the emotional fallout of the Physician and Ruby parting methods on the finish of final season, and extra broadly, why the Physician finally ends up pushing individuals in his life away on a regular basis. Precisely what you want for Christmas viewing!
Little question we’ll get a barely cheerier rendition of that when “Pleasure to the World” hits Disney+ internationally, and the BBC within the UK and Eire, on Christmas Day, December 25.
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