It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like (the 2011 Doctor Who) Christmas (Special)
The weeks before Christmas are generally pretty light on nerd news, so forgive me if I post a new 40-second trailer for the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special, The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe, due out on Christmas day. There’s not much new here except that there’s a large blue-and-white present under the tree that is a portal to somewhere, but whether it’s the TARDIS and it finally got it’s chameleon circuit working again or is another portal faux-Narnia — Nonnia? — remains to be seen. On Christmas. Because that’s when it airs. Man, I hate the weeks before Christmas.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.