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Doctor Who: The Giggle review – Fun and fright factor are dialled up in massive regeneration twist

Source: James Pardon/BBC Studios

Warning: this review is also a recap, meaning it contains spoilers for the episode

Did someone call for a Doctor? What about two Doctors? Amid intergalactic levels of hype over the unveiling of 15th Doctor Ncuti Gatwa, returning showrunner Russell T Davies did the impossible and bamboozled Time Lord fans young, old and in-between with the mother of all twists. Gatwa has taken his first bows as the new Doctor. But David Tennant will be hanging around as the… old Doctor?

How is this possible? Until now, it wasn’t. Davies has, however, cheekily reconfigured Time Lord lore by turning the traditional regeneration into “bi-generation”. “That is completely nuts,” says Donna Noble,.

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