Saturday, 9 December 2023

Doctor Who Vs. Nativity Rocks!

Shown on ITV2 today, this festive
British comedy (the third sequel to
2009's Nativity!) starred Celia Imrie
and Simon Lipkin as the teaching
staff at Coventry's St. Bernadette's
Primary school.
Released by Entertainment One
in late 2018, the film (written by
Debbie Isitt) featured Helen George,
Hugh Dennis, Ruth Jones, and a
dozen Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

  • Meera [born Feroza] Syal (Nina) was Dr. Nasreen Chaudhry in The Hungry Earth and Cold Blood, Narrator of Borrowed Time and The Gemini Contagion (both 2011), then voiced Arla Decanto for Big Finish's The Truth of Peladon (2022)
  • Vincent [Warren] Franklin (Lord Mayor) voiced Lord Stormblood for Scenes from her Life (2016), and was cast in The War Between the Land and the Sea
  • Jemma [Mary] Churchill (Nan) voiced Lady Forleon for Creatures of Beauty (2003), Salfira Valtris/Dr. Maria Backhouse for Breaking Bubbles, Praska for Signs and Wonders (both 2014), Farla Janz/ Inscape for The Genesis Chamber, Captain Daphne Papas for The Sontarans (both 2016), Carmen Scheffler for The Crash of the UK-201 (2018), and Louisha Deltarton/the Executive for Kaldor Nights (2022), then appeared in The Five(ish) Doctors Rebbot, and was Jean in Village of the Angels
  • Richard Price (Check-in) was Guest in The Runaway Bride and The Lazarus Experiment, Passerby in Partners in Crime, Takran Soldier in The Doctor's Daughter, Cyberman in The Doctor Falls, and Shadow Kin in Class
  • Arn Kapur (Guard) was Museum Extra in The Vanquishers
  • Lawrence Grugeon (Press Officer) was German Soldier in Twice Upon a Time
  • for Jessica Hynes and Stevie Smith see Nativity 2
  • for Simon Lipkin and Celia Imrie see Nativity 3
  • Gibran Farrah was also ADR mixer on The Tsuranga Conundrum and Demons of the Punjab
  • John Taylor was the boom operator on The Five Doctors too

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