Ahh, Christmastime -- sipping eggnog, curling up by the fireplace, meeting the new form of your alien Time Lord husband. You know. Normal stuff.
This is what Alex Kingston's River Song has in store for her in the Doctor Who Christmas special this year. The BBC revealed Wednesday that the character, who hasn't appeared on Doctor Who since season 7's momentous finale in 2013, will make her triumphant return to the series in the special. Filming starts Wednesday.
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Time-traveling Song, an archaeology professor and a child of the TARDIS, first appeared on Doctor Who in 2008. She's since become a familiar face on the series, particularly during the Matt Smith era. She and the Doctor are entangled in a tragic, asynchronous love story that was partially inspired by Audrey Niffenegger's The Time-Traveler's Wife, a novel about a man who can't control his trips through time and the normal woman who loves him.
"Another Christmas, another special for Doctor Who -- and what could be more special than the return of Alex Kingston as Professor River Song?" Executive Producer Steven Moffat said in a statement. "The last time the Doctor saw her she was a ghost. The first time he met her, she died. So how can he be seeing her again? As ever, with the most complicated relationship in the universe, it’s a matter of time..."