This week’s Radio Times features Ncuti Gatwa and Nicola Coughlan on the cover, and Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat inside
This week’s Radio Times, on sale now, features another new Doctor Who cover. This time it’s the yuletide pairing of Ncuti Gatwa and Nicola Coughlan who are the cover stars, in an issue featuring coverage of new special Joy to the World. Inside this week’s issue you’ll find an exclusive new interview with showrunner Russell T Davies and former showrunner (and Joy writer) Steven Moffat. And it’s as witty and fun as you’d expect when these two get together.
You’ll learn which one of the two writers almost never actually watches the Doctor Who Christmas Special on Christmas Day. You’ll also hear their views on AI scriptwriters, their writing methods (“you just think and think and think and not write. And then you sit down and panic”) and why Joy to the World contains the phrase “I will re-engage with a causal nexus.” And, of course, why they love Christmas, why they love Doctor Who but, above all, why they love Doctor Who at Christmas.
You can pick up the current issue of the Radio Times, Week 51, now from all good newsagents or order online through Pocketmags.
Joy to the World
Joy checks into a London hotel in 2024, only to discover that her quiet stay is anything but ordinary. When Joy opens a secret doorway to the Time Hotel, she discovers danger, dinosaurs and the Doctor. But a deadly plan is unfolding across the Earth, just in time for Christmas.
Where has the Doctor been? What is going on in Joy’s hotel room? An old enemy of the Doctor’s is lurking in the wings and all of human history hangs in the balance. Can the Doctor save Christmas, everywhere, all at once?
