Steven Moffat explains why he’s tormenting Bill, and a new synopsis from ‘The Pyramid at the End of The World’ tells us that history repeats itself. 

By way of a little light relief in a pretty dark episode, ‘Extremis’ got its comic kicks by sticking a spanner in the burgeoning relationship between companion Bill and a girl called Paula. Here’s Steven Moffat and Pearl Mackie explaining it all…

For reasons you can read about in our spoiler-filled review, she gets the chance to try again at getting the relationship off the ground in the new episode ‘The Pyramid at the End of the World’. However, a new synopsis for the episode over at The Radio Times, hints that things may get off to a rocky start all over again…

“While poor Bill’s love life is scuppered by another unlikely VIP visit — this time the UN Secretary General! – a blind and brooding Doctor is having a While My Guitar Gently Weeps moment in the Tardis. But there’s no time for musings on mortality: a pyramid has suddenly appeared in the centre of a potential warzone involving the Chinese, Russians and Americans. So what’s it doing there?

Well, this doomsday scenario with a hint of Stargate and even the odd bit of Bond reacquaints us with the monastic monstrosities who nearly excommunicated our heroes. It’s a tense, zippy tale, which, with its simmering international relations, feels very “now”. And barring the odd cartoonish implausibility, it confirms how delightfully Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie (Bill) and Matt Lucas (Nardole) work as a team… even if it does make you shout at the screen at the Doctor’s maddening behaviour.” 

So there, another dodgy date interrupted by a globally recognisable dignitary! You can read it all by hitting the Radio Times link above.

Or, you can read our Doctor Who series 10 episode guide here.

Look out for our spoiler free review of ‘The Pyramid at the End of the World’ very soon.