The news thatDoctor Whowould be moving its annual holiday specialfrom Christmas to New Years Daywas met with mixed reactions.

Thats right, everyones favorite monotone, homicidal pepperpots are back.

(Good riddance to the thoroughly boringTzim-Sha.)

Doctor Who Series 11

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More specifically, one Dalek.

(Its basically a bleakerVenom,minus the scenes of Tom Hardy eating raw lobsters.)

Whittaker gets to tap into a little of her predecessors rage.

International funding disputes afterBrexit, of course.

Still, the TARDIS team has a new, unexpected ally albeit one whos not exactly welcome.

Is it all slightly cheesy and feel-good?

But theres also something deeper beneath all the New Years platitudes and alien carnage.

Okay, maybe not that last one.)