Titles Revealed For 'Doctor Who' 60th Anniversary Specials With David Tennant
Now that's how to kick off Eurovision's finale. We've got (more of) the Meep!
Allons-y! As the Eurovision finale kicked off in Liverpool in the United Kingdom on a North American afternoon Saturday, a new trailer for Doctor Who’s upcoming three 60th anniversary specials with David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and the returning Catherine Tate as Donna Noble was released by the BBC.
The trailer release was led up to by the formal international release of the three teasers from the past couple of weeks, each with a countdown marker in binary of 3, 2, and 1 hour to go. Not only did the new trailer, running about 35 seconds feature even more new footage, but it also revealed the titles of each special. They are “The Star Beast”, “Wild Blue Yonder” and “The Giggle”.
Donna seems to recognize the face, she did see Ten leave after she awoke from her dropoff after all, wanting to say goodbye, which he couldn’t risk doing at said dropoff because of the memory repression being so fresh. The footage seems well-organized by episode as after, the trailer sees the Doctor out on the town one night when Beep the Meep’s ship enters our atmosphere pursued by Wrarth Warriors. Even he recognizes it as a “spaceship in trouble” with Yasmin Finney’s Rose standing next to him. The Warriors march down the street shooting. One turns. The “Wild Blue Yonder” segment sees REDACTED network error messaging, like from the teasers, overlay the footage. Donna asks where she is and The Doctor cannot tell her, before it cuts to him in a blue room, even more redacted. So it’s the least revealing segment for sure. “The Giggle” will be the episode with Neil Patrick Harris’s character, who even more blatantly points to being the Celestial Toymaker as a dummy overtakes several monitors the Doctor is viewing at what might be UNIT offices. Seems this incarnation of the Toymaker might have some Joker influences as he “laughs at the human race” in a way so sinister it names the episode and is heard in the trailer. It ends with Donna booping Beep’s nose in a mess of toys.
“The Star Beast” will be directed by Rachel Talalay, who previously directed the series 8, 9, and 10 finales of the Twelfth Doctor era. Tom Kingsley, whose directing works include the original Ghosts series, directs “Wild Blue Yonder”, and Chanya Button directs “The Giggle”, which will end with Fourteen’s regeneration into Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor. The specials are set to feature Donna’s other family members, namely Jacqueline King as her mother Sylvia, Karl Collins as her husband Shaun Temple, and the late Bernard Cribbins as granddad Wilfred Mott. Ruth Madeley will appear as Shirley Anne Bingham.
These specials will be the first to air internationally on Disney+, including the United States, while the series continues on its BBC home domestically. Reportedly, it will be accompanied by a Doctor Who Confidential successor companion series, Doctor Who Unleashed. Series 14 is scheduled to premiere in the spring. The Eurovision Song Contest streams in the United States on Peacock, and the ninth to thirteenth Doctors’ eras are available on (HBO) Max. Oh, and Sweden won Eurovision with “Tattoo” by Loreen earning them 583 total points.
