It would really be completely within character for the Eleventh Doctor to pretend that he can speak to babies just because its funny. TL;DR The Doctor has no reason to lie - he might be making a joke, but logic concludes that he can infact, speak baby.
Stormageddon, Dark Lord of AllAlfie Owens was the son of Craig Owens and Sophie. According to the Eleventh Doctor, who claimed to be able to speak baby, Alfie preferred to call himself "Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All".
AlfieIn the episode, alien time traveller the Doctor (Matt Smith) is going on a "farewell tour" before his impending death and visits his friend Craig Owens (James Corden) in present-day Colchester, who has a new baby son, Alfie.
Closing Time"Doctor Who" Closing Time (TV Episode 2011) - James Corden as Craig Owens - IMDb.
One born duringName :Stormageddon. Meaning :One born during a big storm, One born during a big storm.
James Kimberly Corden, OBE (born 22 August 1978) played Craig Owens in the Doctor Who stories The Lodger and Closing Time, and the box set exclusive Up All Night.
Craig entered a life-and-death battle with the little Cybermat once it stopped playing possum and subdued it with the Doctor's help.
Breaks time, marries the Doctor – The Wedding of River Song (2011) The season six finale was suitably bonkers, with time itself broken. We won't go into just why or how this happened (or, indeed, how this was all fixed), but the long and short of it is: it was River's fault.Nov 5, 2018
During a recent press conference promoting the upcoming Season 13 premiere, current showrunner Chris Chibnall answered some questions about “passing the baton” onto Davies, saying: “I've been throwing batons at people for about a year now and finally someone's picked it up.” The comment suggests that the BBC ...Oct 20, 2021
Julia CareyJames Corden / Spouse (m. 2012)The couple are parents to children Max, 10, Carey, 8, and Charlotte, 3. British actor and television host James Corden (L) and wife Julia Carey arrive for the 71st Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles on September 22, 2019.Sep 1, 2021
Most famously he played Smithy in BBC's Gavin and Stacey and was part of the Kay Mellor sitcom Fat Friends. The actor also starred in two episodes of Doctor Who alongside Matt Smith as the Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond, the Doctor's assistant.Apr 29, 2021
The tale, shown to millions of viewers on Saturday, saw the Doctor staying in a flat in Colchester, where a hologram was trying to entice people to pilot their alien ship. Although the cult sci-fi series is filmed in Cardiff, BBC scriptwriters decided to include Colchester in Saturday's story.Jun 15, 2010
In 2011, while his mother was away for the weekend, Alfie met the Doctor while he was visiting Alfie's father. Alfie accompanied them to investigate a Cyberman invasion and was transmatted onto a Cyber-ship. That night, while his father was on a milk run, the Doctor babysat and saved Alfie from a Cybermat attack.
Alfie was supposed to appear as a hallucination when the Eleventh Doctor regenerated, along with other of the Doctor's companions. In the end, only Amy appeared.
Radio 1 DJ Greg James appears in a non-speaking cameo role, as a man shopping for lingerie. His character was nicknamed "Carlos".
The Doctor expresses his dislike for Craig's "redecorated" house by using a line from the Second Doctor ( Patrick Troughton) in The Three Doctors (1973) and The Five Doctors (1983). The Doctor recites the mini-poem "Not a rat, a cybermat" from the novelisation of Revenge of the Cybermen.
The teeth were added to suggest it had once been an animal. " Closing Time " is the twelfth and penultimate episode of the sixth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, and was first broadcast on BBC One on 24 September 2011. It was written by Gareth Roberts and directed by Steve Hughes.
Much of "Closing Time" was filmed in Howells department store in Cardiff. As the store had to be closed, they filmed over four or five nights, sometimes going until 6:00 in the morning. Hughes said it was a "drain" on the production team, while Corden recalled it made the cast and crew "lightheaded" and "hysterical".
Followed by →. " The Wedding of River Song ". List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present) " Closing Time " is the twelfth and penultimate episode of the sixth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, and was first broadcast on BBC One on 24 September 2011. It was written by Gareth Roberts and directed by Steve Hughes.
He stops by Craig, who is living with his girlfriend Sophie in a new home in present-day Colchester and is raising their baby, Alfie.
It achieved overnight ratings of 5.3 million viewers, coming in second for its time slot behind All-Star Family Fortunes. When final consolidated figures were taken into account, the number rose to 6.93 million, making it the second most watched programme of the day behind The X Factor. "Closing Time" was the fifth most-downloaded programme of September on BBC's online iPlayer. It was also given an Appreciation Index of 86, considered "excellent".