Rachel Talalay will be directing the Doctor Who Christmas Special for 2017, the news having been confirmed by Steven Moffat.

Speaking at SHERLOCKED USA: The Official Sherlock Convention, Moffat said:

“Making big-budget spectaculars on no money at all is what we need, and Rachel’s got such a deep background, and such great ability at that! We’re just finishing up on the finale episodes, and planning the Christmas one, which she’s also directing — which is my very last one.”

This year’s Doctor Who Christmas Special will mark [...]

How fitting that the conclusion to series eight should fall on the eve of Remembrance Sunday. For tonight the heroes of the hour were neither the madman in his box, nor his faithful travelling companion, but two departed soldiers – Danny Pink and Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.

Refreshingly straightforward.

The plot of the finale was refreshingly straightforward and untypical for a Steven Moffat script. This simplicity of the central idea of Cybermen taking over the living and the dead, enabled the focus to fall upon the leading characters and their vulnerabilities whilst at the same time boasting some [...]

When Moffat gets it right, he gets it right. When he gets it wrong.. well you get the gist. I think it’s safe to say he got this spectacularly right.

Dark Water is everything a big two parter finale should be, full of chills, laughs, and tension.

I have been beyond excited for Dark Water/Death In Heaven for weeks, the promise of something epic and utterly dark and delicious has been too much for me, I am so relieved that we FINALLY know who Missy is, and I have missed being left more confused at the end than when I started the episode.

Dark Water is [...]