Dr Who fans left in the dark

Telegraph

By Roya Nikkhah

It was the moment all Dr Who fans had been waiting for – when the identity of the new time lord would be revealed.

But the sneak preview of the Dr Who Christmas special, shown on BBC 1's Children in Need show on Friday night, teased viewers with a puzzling scenario of two Time Lords, increasing speculation about who will succeed David Tennant in the role.

In the two-minute clip taken from the eagerly awaited special episode, The Next Doctor, to be shown on Christmas Day, Tennant's Dr Who came face to face with another man calling himself the Time Lord, who appeared to have all of Dr Who's accessories including a tardis, a female assistant and a sonic screw driver.

After stepping out of the tardis into a snowy street scene on Christmas Eve in 1851, Tennant's character is seen responding to a woman's screams of "Doctor".

But when he arrives at the scene, where what appears to be a dalek is attempting to break free from a locked building, another man played by the actor David Morrissey, has also appeared to answer the woman's calls.

In the exchange between the two men, Tennant asks: "Who are you?" to which Morrissey's character replies: "I'm the doctor. Simply the doctor. The one, the only and the best. Stand back, this is a job for a Time Lord."

Looking confused, the woman, whom Morrissey's character refers to as "Rosita", says: "Well there can't be two of you." .......read more here