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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: new Doctor Who specials, Beedle the Bardcore's version of Usher's "Yeah!," and remembering Andre Braugher.
David Tennant as The Doctor in <em>Doctor Who Special 1: The Star Beast.</em>

This week, we heard more about chairs, directors, and making everybody sit on boxes, the legacyquel business rolled on, and Netflix finally started dishing out the data.

Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

The new Doctor Who specials, streaming on Disney+

is back and it's on Disney+. The 60th anniversary of the series was in November and three great special episodes were released. They starred Catherine Tate and)The returning showrunner Russell T Davies is bringing a lot of fresh ideas to establish a new era of the franchise. It makes me very excited for the Christmas special that's coming up and the new season next year. The older episodes if you'd like to go back and relive those days. The specials and new episodes

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