CASANOVA, in pyjamas, fighting the Sycorax with a broadsword? What greater gift could womankind receive on Christmas Day? Of course, gay men always give the most exquisite and generous of gifts, so it was little wonder that Russell T. Davies, the head writer and fairy godfather of Doctor Who (BBC One), made the “Christmas Day special” not just a treat for those ovulating on the 25th — which, to be frank, would have been every female viewer at the point where David Tennant burst out of the Tardis for the first time — but a thrill for everyone.
Personally, I don’t know anyone who harboured a single doubt over Tennant making a totally splendid and, more importantly, very hot Doctor.
And this complacency has proved