Doctor Who
monition : spoilers ahead for Doctor Who ’s 2023 Christmas special , " The Church on Ruby Road . "
Summary
Doctor Who ’s Christmas Special has created a celebrity dying figure that no viewer would have had on their 2023 keno card . While not tremendously surprising give the episode ’s deed of conveyance , Doctor Who ’s " The Church on Ruby Road " have a big deal out of why the Doctor ’s new companion was leave at a Christian church on Ruby Road . Themystery of Ruby ’s motherwill manifestly rumble intoDoctor Whoseason 14 , and to that closing , the 2023 Christmas Special show Millie Gibson ’s character attempt to find her biological parents via a television receiver show confront by Davina McCall .
While this cameo may not think much to American viewers catch on Disney+ , Davina McCall is a real - life TV conferrer in the UK , and despite an ill - advised turn in forgotten early-2000s sitcomSam ’s Game , is not loosely known for her act . Davina is the current presenter of UK reality showLong Lost Family , which often features adoptees search for , and afterwards meeting , the biological parents they never knew . This is why Davina specifically was picked for a celebrity cameo inDoctor Who ’s 2023 Christmas episode . TheLong Lost Familyconnection make sense then , but Davina McCall’sDoctor Whoappearance creates an remaining vogue for the giver .
The cast of Doctor Who time of year 14 is filled with democratic actors and actresses to push this classic sci - fi drama into the next generation .
Davina McCall Has Now Died Twice While Playing Herself
Davina McCall ’s in - universe interview with Ruby Sunday brings her to the care ofDoctor Who ’s Goblin villains , and their mischief results in the TV giver being impaled in the face by a Christmas tree star . Weirdly , this is not the first clip Davina has portrayed a fictional interpretation of herself dying on boob tube . In 2008 , Charlie Brooker created hisBlack MirrorprecursorDead Set , which centered upon the veridical - life reality showBig Brotherduring a zombie outbreak . Since Davina McCall was the donor ofBig Brotherat the time , she played a novelise version of herself inDead Setand , inevitably , was seize with teeth by a zombie .
This is n’t Davina McCall ’s first cameo inDoctor Who . She also voiced the Davinadroid in 2005 ’s " Bad Wolf . "
Doctor Whocreates one of those " If I had a one dollar bill for every time … " moments with Davina McCall ’s festive demise . Not many TV bestower get to fiddle themselves in fictional TV appearance , and even fewer play themselves getting killed off . Hardly any have had the honor of doing so twice , meaningDavina McCall dying in bothDead SetandDoctor Whocreates an unmatched trendthat would have been insufferable to betoken when she first became a noted video personality around the turn of the millennium .
Why The Doctor Saves Davina McCall
The Doctor seldom saves people who have already buy the farm inDoctor Who . forbid deaths meddles with the framework of story , and rules surrounding paradox and " fixed point in time " prohibit the Doctor from , for deterrent example , save Tegan ’s Aunt Vanessa from being turned into a doll by the Master , or averting the death of Rose ’s founding father . This raises questions over why the Dr. is allowed to hop-skip back in clock time and salvage Davina McCall . The round-eyed explanation is that Davina ’s destruction does n’t weigh as a fixed peak in metre , and hold open her has minimal impact upon the wider macrocosm .
The veridical reasonableness , however , may be revealed by Ncuti Gatwa ’s Fifteenth Doctor himself at an early point inDoctor Who ’s 2023 Christmas special . When Ruby Sunday describes the Goblins as time - travelers , the Doctor reply with disgust , claim the puppet merely " bimble " through time , and can not be consider straight sentence - travelers . This distinction may signal why the Goblins ' legal action - killing Davina McCall , in this case - can safely be reverse using the TARDIS .
Doctor Whoseason 14 begins spring 2024 .
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