"GET OUT OF MY PUB!"
TECHNICAL SPECS: First aired Mar.27 2025. An advert for the show's second series. Available on YouTube.
IN THIS ONE... What it says on the tin.
REVIEW: Set within Disney+'s second series, this promo is a good way to herald 15 and Belinda crashing the Eurovision Contest. It's also become traditional for the Doctor to exist within BBC programming somehow, with the 11th Doctor the biggest offender, though the previous year, Gatwa's Doctor had briefly appeared on a science-fiction version of Match of the Day. THIS promo hits a number of shows and has a rapid-fire pace that allows for quick jokes before we mercifully move on. And for once, I kind of recognize the shows (or it doesn't matter).
EastEnders is in the mob, and that's been part of the Whoniverse since the 90s thanks to Dimensions in Time, and 11 had also crashed the show. Despite the narration, landing in a nature show seems natural, while the reality shows are probably the weakest link - did our heroes really take part in a season of The Apprentice? What's that weird LINDA joke on The Traitors? Don't know that cartoon either. Really, only the landing in the Gladiators arena makes any real sense here and might have created a sense of danger if the TARDIS ever shared a shot with the action. But fanfiction writers, to your keyboards! I'm sure you can come up with entirely fleshed-out adventures to explain these quick clips.
THEORIES: I'll again trot out my Land of Fiction theory to fit these brief adventures into the canon.
REWATCHABILITY: Medium-Low - Though we've had these kinds of promo crossovers in the past, this one is a bit pacier and funnier. A bit.
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