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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Barbara Ellen

The week in TV: Doctor Who; Jimmy Carr Destroys Art; The Pact; The Devil’s Hour – review

Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor, looking panicked as she starts to regenerate
‘Action and pathos’: Jodie Whittaker in Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor. Photograph: James Pardon/BBC/PA

Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor BBC One | iPlayer
Jimmy Carr Destroys Art Channel 4 | All 4
The Pact BBC One | iPlayer
The Devil’s Hour | Amazon Prime

Do we need the spoiler klaxon? Is there anybody along the space-time continuum who doesn’t yet know that, at the end of BBC One’s 90-minute Doctor Who special, The Power of the Doctor, when the 13th Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, regenerated (sparking and buckling like a billionaire’s faulty space rocket), she turned into the 10th Doctor, David Tennant (“I know these teeth!”), instead of, as billed, 14th Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa (of Sex Education). Now, as Russell T Davies returns to the Whovian helm, there’ll be three episodes featuring Tennant before Gatwa properly takes over.

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