• Menu
  • Skip to right header navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary navigation
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

All Geek Things

Random thoughts of a crowded mind

  • Home
  • Culture
  • Social media
  • Reviews
    • Xena Reviews
    • Books
  • Loved you in this
  • Random thoughts
  • Search
  • Home
  • Culture
  • Social media
  • Reviews
    • Xena Reviews
    • Books
  • Loved you in this
  • Random thoughts
  • Search
  • About
  • Cookies and your privacy
  • Terms of Use
  • Contact me
  • Submit a guest post

River Song returns for Doctor Who Christmas special

September 2, 2015 By //  by PashaO Leave a Comment

ShareTweetPinterestBufferWhatsappReddit

riversong-badassRiver Song is to return for the Doctor Who Christmas special. The BBC confirmed that Award winning actress Alex Kingston is teaming up with Peter Capaldi for the first time this December and I’m all up in my feelings.

I love River Song and welcome her return but I was in agreement with Matt Smith when he asked showrunner Steven Moffat not to put her in the new series with Peter as the Doctor.

Maybe I lacked vision back then but I couldn’t imagine (or didn’t want to) River and Twelve bantering the way Eleven and even Ten did.

river-song-ten-doctor-who

For Moffat to bring River back there must be a good story. I was so disappointed with last year’s Christmas special, I can’t even remember what it was about, something to do with Christmas I think. Anyway, maybe Alex is the boost the series needs as in my humble opinion, the show has been a bit hit and miss this last season.

The filming for the first segment of the special is just getting underway and further details on the Doctor’s reunion with River Song are under wraps. So we don’t know much about the episode save for this brief plot summary:

“It’s Christmas Day in the future and the TARDIS is parked on a snowy village street, covered in icicles, awaiting its next adventure. Time traveller River Song meets her husband’s new incarnation, in the form of Peter Capaldi, for the first time this Christmas.”

river-song-eleven-kissSpeaking about her return, Kingston said: ‘To be honest, I did not know whether River would ever return to the show, but here she is, back with the Doctor for the Christmas special. Steven Moffat is on glittering form, giving us an episode filled with humour and surprise guest castings.

I met Peter for the first time at Monday’s read through, we had a laugh, and I am now excited and ready to start filming with him and the Doctor Who team. Christmas in September? Why not!’

Steve Moffat added:  ‘Another Christmas, another special for Doctor Who – and what could be more special than the return of Alex Kingston as Professor River Song? The last time the Doctor saw her she was a ghost. The first time he met her, she died. So how can he be seeing her again? As ever, with the most complicated relationship in the universe, it’s a matter of time…’

Lead writer and executive producer, Steven Moffat, wrote the new Christmas episode.

0

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Doctor Who

Previous Post: «Dark Matter cast Dark Matter and Killjoys renewed for a second season
Next Post: Game of Thrones enters Guinness Book Of World Records »

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Primary Sidebar

Subscribe to All Geek Things via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,135 other subscribers

Recent posts

Lupin part 2 – New teaser trailer

Jodie Whittaker as Doctor Who Thirteen

Thirteen Doctors game is a great distraction

Comic-Con@Home, Sandiego coic-con logo

Comic-Con@Home line-up

Recent Comments

  • 28 day xena: warrior princess challenge, day 4: in which I have a favorite season three episode … – a little more juju on Xena Warrior Princess: The Rift Arc
  • Samantha Wellington on What to watch if you can’t bring yourself to watch Game of Thrones
  • PashaO on Your Views on the Xena Rift Arc
  • Kel on Your Views on the Xena Rift Arc
  • LOST: The Blending of Genres, The Rise of Fan Hysteria – Ryan's Rites on Lost: A Tale of Two Cities
  • About
  • Cookies and your privacy
  • Terms of Use
  • Contact me
  • Submit a guest post

Copyright © 2021 All Geek Things

This site uses cookies: Find out more.