![]() (For a complete guide to more than 130 original Christmas films airing across broadcast, cable and streaming this holiday season, click here.) Netflix movies this month, meanwhile, include Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill and Meryl Streep Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, starring Benedict Cumberbatch Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter, starring Olivia Colman and the Christmas rom-com Single All the Way, starring Michael Urie. Reviews were generally very positive.To help you anticipate and navigate all that Netflix has to offer, TVLine presents this comprehensive list of all the TV shows, movies, documentaries and specials making their debut on the streaming service this month - all as a free supplement to our daily What to Watch and weekly TVLine-Up columns.Īmong Netflix TV shows this December, you have new seasons of Cobra Kai, Emily in Paris, Queer Eye and The Witcher the Colton Underwood docuseries Coming Out Colton the Selling Sunset spinoff Selling Tampa and the very final episodes of both Money Heist and Lost in Space. ‘The New Doctor’ was watched by nearly 12 million viewers (giving it a 50% share of the total television viewers in its timeslot), the second highest viewing figures on Christmas Day, continuing the extraordinary success of the show under the stewardship of Russell T Davies. Once again, it will be interesting to see what changes are brought about by the casting of a new actor in the role. Equally, David Tennant’s approach to the role of the doctor is beginning to wear a tad thin, as good as he is. It will be interesting to see what changes Steven Moffat makes hopefully he will choose to pursue a new direction. I suspect Davies, one of television’s greatest writers, has probably taken the show as far as he can do and his decision to step down is a good one. I am not sure whether or not we should read too much into Dervla Kirwan’s character, Miss Hartigan, being a kind of proto-suffragette who turns evil, but I could not help but wonder at the implication. They have rather been overused in recent times, I think, although I appreciate that they are iconic foes of the doctor down through the years. The involvement, once again, of the Cybermen was a little tiresome. It contains all the hallmarks of a Russell T Davies script, including a nod to Buffy the Vampire Slayer (in this case, the classic Buffy episode ‘Hush’), but I could not help but think that the template has become a little worn now. ‘The Next Doctor’ proved to be a typical Christmas episode, played out at a frenetic and breathless pace. In fact, his character was not the doctor at all, but simply supposed himself to be so. There was some speculation that Davies was playing a kind of double double-bluff and ‘The Next Doctor’ would actually be used to announce David Morrissey as the new doctor, rather than being the red herring that was initially supposed. ![]() After that, Steven Moffat, one of the show’s regular writers, takes over from Davies, and a new actor will assume the title role, the third since the show was revived. Instead, there would be four special 60-minute episodes, which would mark the end of the involvement of both David Tennant and executive producer and senior writer Russell T Davies. It had already been announced that there would not be a new season of the show during 2009. The two doctors soon find themselves battling against one of their oldest and most deadly foes, the Cybermen.Ĭontinuing a theme that began following the end of the first season of the revived ‘Doctor Who’, when the new doctor, David Tennant (taking over from Christopher Eccleston) was introduced in the classic 2005 one-hour episode ‘The Christmas Invasion’, Christmas Day 2008 saw the broadcast of the fourth “Christmas Special”.įollowing the muted reaction that greeted ‘Voyage Of The Damned’ in 2007, not least because of the casting of guest star Kylie Minogue, the announcement of ‘The Next Doctor’ was greeted with a great deal of speculation. ![]() The Doctor, now without a companion, arrives in snowbound London on Christmas Eve, 1851, only to discover another apparently future incarnation of himself (played by David Morrissey) is already there. ![]() Starring David Tennant, David Morrissey, Dervla Kirwan and Velile Tshabalala ![]()
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