Doctor Who‘s New Year’s Special Is Coming, and the TARDIS LooksRough

There are only two instalment left inDoctor Who ’s 13th time of year , a undivided , serialized tarradiddle subtitledFlux . But when it ’s over , Jodie Whittakerwon’t be done playing the Thirteenth Doctor quite yet . That will only happen during the last of three Who specials that will be transmit over the course of 2022 . As usual , the BBC is keeping the secret of the next physician close to its metaphoric dresser , but we do finally have a wee bit of item on the first special , which get in on New Year ’s Day .

Here ’s what we already know , in add-on to the zephyr date : both Mandip Gill and John Bishop will reprise their roles as the Thirteenth ’s quondam companion Yasmin Khan and new comrade Dan Lewis . If you ’ve been watching Flux , you know the TARDIS is already in bad shape , evidence mysterious door , emitting pitch-black goop , and lose its defensive capabilities . However , it still looks right smart better in Flux than it does in this bill poster for the New Year ’s particular :

The humorously brief precis of the special does n’t even concern to the TARDIS ’ woe : “ Sarah ( Aisling Bea ) own and feed ELF storage , and Nick ( Adjani Salmon ) is a client who visit his unit every year on New Year ’s Eve . This class , however , their dark turns out to be a slight unlike than plan … ”