[RhysJR]

Christmas special back on Christmas Day, confirmed!
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Also a confirmation of the title there, though that has been widely reported for a while.

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Back to November, and 'The Daleks' coulourisation will air at 7:30 on BBC Four on the 23rd, with a repeat of the docudrama 'An Adventure in Space and Time' following. Presumably that will then join iPlayer for evermore after that.

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To the specials, and I did see a tweet with the reported of the episodes lengths - they will average at about an hour each.
(Annoyingly can't find it now)


Last night also the premiere of the first special at Battersea

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And another new poster

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We knew this was coming - RTD wanted to reclaim December 25th for Doctor Who - I don't know who chose to end it back in 2018, was it the BBC or was it Chibnall refusing to write a proper Christmas special? Anyone know?

Not sure how accurate it is, but the common story it was down to Chibnall rather than the BBC. Moffat and Capaldi were set to finish after series 10 but stayed for a final Christmas special so the show would not lose the Christmas Day slot...and then it lost it anyway. You can clearly imagine that the series 10 finale was to be the regeneration story originally. If I remember correctly, I think I heard Moffat state previously that "Twice Upon a Time"'s concept of the current Doctor meeting the first was an early idea for the 50th.

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With all of Chibnall's "festive" specials as some people called them, were any of them actually festive in nature? I never watched the 2019 or 2021 New Year's Day "festive" specials, only the last one which was in Jodie's final three specials.

2019 was set on New Year's Day, 2021 was not given any official setting (apart from 10 months after the last episode) and 2022 was set set on New Year's Eve, but really  they all could have been set on almost any other day of the year with minor edits.