7) Doctor Who Christmas Special Teaser
This year’s been hard on Doctor Who fans, as there’s been no full season of the show. As such, the yearly Christmas special has more riding on it than usual; it has to be particularly good to make up for the drought of the rest of 2016.
At NYCC, we got a suitably festive look at the episode – which is titled “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” – in the form of a short video that combined behind-the-scenes footage with some clips from the special itself. We also learned that the main premise is ‘Doctor Who does superheroes.’
Justin Chatwin (War of the Worlds, Orphan Black) is guesting as a Superman-like hero, and Matt Lucas will be reprising his role as the bumbling Nardole from the previous year’s Christmas edition – a part he will also play in 2017’s season.
Seeing as superheroes are more prominent than ever now, it’s a canny idea to have Doctor Who try its hand at the genre. If nothing else, it should be fun to see Peter Capaldi’s sarcastic Time Lord come up against another sort of hero who wears an even more outlandish costume than he does.