After boasting that last year's "A Christmas Carol," was "the most Christmassy Christmas special ever," Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat is claiming that this year's Christmas special is going to be "Christmassy as hell." Without revealing too much, Moffat hinted at what's to come in the special, which he'd previously hinted as having "fire and aliens."
"I might be cleverly redeploying a known Christmas story again, sort of… but probably not the one you think,” Moffat told SFX. “It will be massively Christmassy and moving and sentimental and sweet. It’ll be set partly on Earth, but not completely. And it might have a period setting…”
It sounds a lot like "A Christmas Carol," but I'd be fine with that. That episode, in my opinion, was far and ahead the best Christmas special to air since the show came back in 2005. I don't know what story Moffat is planning on adapting this time, but I'd love to see a Doctor Who take on How the Grinch Stole Christmas or something zany like that. Imagine the Doctor fighting off a big green monster who attacks at Christmas! It sounds great.
Doctor Who will return to BBC America on August 27 with its midseries premiere, "Let's Kill Hitler." It's likely that the Christmas special will air on Christmas day.
Should be fun! I thought "A Christmas Carol" was quite good, though I still like the David Tennant Christmas specials better (besides "Voyage of the Damned").