25 November 2023

Saturday 25 November

2023-11-25

TV

 * BBC One
 * 6.30 pm Doctor Who (2023- ) The Star Beast The Doctor is caught in a fight to the death as a spaceship crash-lands in London. But as the battle wreaks havoc, destiny is converging on the Doctor’s old friend, Donna. With David Tennant and Catherine Tate. (i-player)
 * TV Cream: What a way to start the week! Here’s Who back on a Saturday night with a non-festive episode for the first time in six years, making for what should be a formidable double bill with Strictly for the next three weeks. Of course it’s back to the future in more ways than that with some familiar faces returning in front of and behind the camera, and indeed this first story is based on a strip from Doctor Who Magazine back in 1980 which was always considered one of the best Who spin-offs and now telly technology has expanded enough to allow for it to be realised effectively on screen, the new co-production money giving it a bit of a boot up the arse in terms of the spectacle it seems. Let’s have a look at it, then.
 * 9.30 pm Not Going Out (S10, E2/7) Can Lee and Lucy’s friendship with Toby and Anna survive a long weekend in a damp cottage in the New Forest?
 * 11.45 pm Doctor Who: Unleashed 60th Anniversary Specials. Episode 1 of 3. Steffan Powell catches up with David Tennant and Catherine Tate ahead of their much-anticipated reunion and meets the monsters and makers of The Star Beast.(on BBC Three at 7.30 pm) (i-player)