Categories: news

Richard E. Grant returns to Doctor Who for Christmas special

The news of the week is that Richard E. Grant is going to return to Doctor Who for 2012 Christmas special as a villain.

I’ve never watch him in the old Doctor Who series, but Richard E Grant is an actor, author and director, that has starred in over 80 film and television hits including Withnail And I, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Jack & Sarah, Gosford Park and The Iron Lady (as it is said).

Before the new series of Doctor Who, when Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant took on the lead role, Richard E. Grant played “alternate” versions of the Ninth and Tenth Doctors in Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death (a two-part mini-story, broadcast in 1992 as part of Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day) and Scream of the Shalka (a flash-animated six-part serial written by Paul Cornell, which was webcast in 2003 to mark Doctor Who’s 40th anniversary) .

The 2012 Christmas special is written by Steven Moffat and directed by Saul Metzstein, it will be shot this week in Cardiff at BBC Wales’ studios.

Related External Links

dan-marius

Recent Posts

Doctor Who day, 17th May 2025

Saturday is the Doctor Who day lately since the new and the 15th after the…

1 day ago

What does it take to travel in the TARDIS and who would travel with the Fugitive Doctor??

The original Time and Relative Dimensions In Space team member Carole Ann Ford talks to…

1 day ago

Doctor Who – season 15, episode 6 – The Interstellar Song contest

After the Doctor and Belinds triggered the Phase 1 everything got insane and their lives,…

5 days ago

Doctor Who Magazine DWM special edition 69

Last month, April 2025, Doctor Who Magazine celebrated 20 years of the Ninth Doctor special…

1 week ago

Doctor Who – season 15, episode 5 – The Story & the Engine

In Lagos, a mysterious figure called the Barber rules. The Doctor finds stories hold real…

2 weeks ago

Doctor Who – season 15, episode 4 – Lucky day

It's our 'Lucky Day!' because UNIT never left but it has returned, Ruby Sunday has…

3 weeks ago