Planet Gallifrey

Tuesday, December 22

Tennant and Tate at Christmas

Thank you to the BBC for putting these clips up on their YouTube channel! We have some sneak previews of Nan's Christmas Carol and Hamlet, starring Catherine Tate and David Tennant, respectively. David also pops up in Nan's Christmas Carol as the Ghost of Christmas Present!

Nan's Christmas Carol

Hamlet

Shh... Spoilers!

There have been many spoilers floating around the internet and many of them have been leaked versions of what happens in The End of Time. One particular one, many of you may know this as the Virgin Media one, actually described most of what happened in the first episode, bar the ending.

Now, as this is going to be the best 2+ hours of this year for nearly everyone, I will not be putting up any spoilers as such. If you want to read them at your own will, you may do so but I will not be directing you to them. Obviously, as the days draw closer to Part 1, more information will be released about the episode(s).

I would also ask you to refrain from posting links and speaking about those spoilers in the cbox. Failure to comply will lead to banning and removal of posts. Sorry, but that is the action which should be taken as this is a Doctor Who press site and we should not be glorifying any leaked information as such.

Thanks :)

Monday, December 21

More from the Press Screening

Den of Geek's report is generally spoiler-free but they do say that if you want to watch the episode cold, look away now... Here is a snip:

The bringing back of The Master, and the episode gets down to business very quickly, isn’t quite so impressively done, although it's done quite swiftly. It’s also utterly fair to say that he’s even more insane than he was in The Last Of The Time Lords. This is not a quiet and reserved Master at all, and we suspect he'll remain as divisive as the last time we saw him. We've always liked The Master a lot though, so were pleased to see him, and he does get some quite scary moments. He comes across as frenetic, random, hungry and very, very dangerous.

Total SciFi Online also have a report, which is more spoiler-y than the above! As ever, if you want to know nothing, then don't read :)

Along with Cribbins, Simm is the driving force of this episode, utterly different from his Harold Saxon persona from two years back, yet totally the same character in his wild-eyed, evil genius. Several Master moments in the episode are genuinely scary, and yet wonderfully funny at the same time. It’s a perfect combination for a man who reviles yet revels in his own lunacy, and makes for unforgettable telly. The fact that the Master seems to have no distinct plan until late in the episode makes it all the more breathtaking when it finally kicks in – and reminds us how terrifying a Time Lord can be, if you don’t have him on your side.

Annnnd we have some videos too!