A screening of the Doctor Who New Year’s special, Resolution was held for the press and special guests at BFI Southbank in London, Tuesday evening, December 18.
BBC Director-General Tony Hall and Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall both introduced the special prior to the screening.
Doctor Who show runner Chris Chibnall now takes to the stage to intro the episode #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/pllUrV73Js
— lizo mzimba (@lizo_mzimba) December 18, 2018
A panel moderated by presenter and radio personality Yasmin Evans was conducted after the screening. The panel included Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill and Tosin Cole.
The cast are now on stage taking part in a Q and A discussing the episode and the series #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/juHld2Jqu2
— lizo mzimba (@lizo_mzimba) December 18, 2018
Edit: the Instagram post below was likely deleted because, along with some photos from the event, it contained a video of Jodie Whittaker speaking on the panel after the screening. Although the video did not show Whittaker speaking specifically of the special, the entire panel is embargoed until after transmission of the episode.
The director of the special, Wayne Yip, was also in attendance but did not join the panel.
Guest cast members Nikesh Patel and Daniel Adegboyega were also at the screening.
#xmaseve #nextweek
So a week befor New Year’s Day where the the doctor who special will show on bbc one at 7pm in the uk.
Went to a press event for the show with the GF loadsa fun🤗 hope all you #whovians enjoy it x #doctorwho #bbcone #whoverse #scifi #tvshow #tardis #newyearsday pic.twitter.com/x7JsPZvB0W— Daniel Adegboyega (@DanielAdeg) December 24, 2018
Actress Katy Manning, who played the third Doctor’s companion Jo Grant was one of the special guests.
Had a wonderful evening at the festive #DoctorWho party – the episode on New Years Day is fantastic…
Delighted to have @ManningOfficial as my date ❤️ pic.twitter.com/6fK4yGFN9w— Darren Scott (@darren_scott) December 18, 2018
🤣a joy to share the marvellous #DoctorWhonewyearspecial with you next to me ! 🤗
— KatyManning Official (@ManningOfficial) December 18, 2018
The reaction of the invitees was overall positive. Invitees called the special “festive”, “funny”, “awesome” and cheers were reported from the audience.
Just saw funniest “festive” Doctor Who for light years! No spoilers but TX New Years Day #doctorwho pic.twitter.com/7TUfaZokSe
— David Stephenson (@TheTellyRocket) December 18, 2018
At BFI for screening of New Year’s Day episode of DOCTOR WHO. Great to meet up again with the fab Bradley Walsh!
Needless to say big cheers from the audience, especially when… oh, I can’t say that… sworn to secrecy… you’ll just have to wait and watch it for yourself… pic.twitter.com/boK3g7rkys
— Steve Nallon 🎬🎭📚🎧🎙 (@SteveNallon) December 18, 2018
Amazing screening of the New Year #DoctorWho episode tonight. No spoilers – but it is AWESOME. The panel afterwards was hilarious with Bradley Walsh almost stealing it from Jodie. @MandipGill as lovely as ever – possibly more so. Chris on top form, too – on and off screen 🙂 pic.twitter.com/ujLqkd05xD
— Richard Dinnick (@richarddinnick) December 19, 2018
Incredible Time Exhibit 2 – just back from the @bbcdoctorwho do and screening of #Resolution @BFI. Can’t say more except can’t wait to watch with the kids on Jan 1. Will give them a very happy New Year! #DoctorWho ❤️ pic.twitter.com/Sf3iDIK3af
— Joy Wilkinson (@joyofse19) December 18, 2018
Despite the below on-screen admonition before the screening, a child in the audience managed to post a ten-second video on Instagram of Chris Chibnall specifically naming the main threat in the special. Chibnall hoped the reveal of the threat in Resolution would be experienced by the audience as an “exciting” and “rare” appearance.
The main threat was teased, not named in the trailer for Resolution and was described as “the most dangerous creature in the universe” by the Doctor.
The Instagram account which posted the video of Chris Chibnall seems to have been deleted.
Director-General Tony Hall introducing a special screening of the New Year’s Day episode of Doctor Who – Resolution #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/EfzKyaAdJl
— lizo mzimba (@lizo_mzimba) December 18, 2018