The official press pack for this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special, A Christmas Carol, has been released by the BBC today!

As well as revealing a couple of new episode stills, the press pack also includes a cast and crew list for the story, and a new interview with Eleventh Doctor actor Matt Smith, in which he praises Steven Moffat’s ”fantastical and magical mind” and promises “one of the most Christmassy and inventive Doctor Who stories so far”…

Meanwhile, its guest star, Katherine Jenkins, who will be playing Abigail Pettigrew, reminisces: ”I had the most amazing time. I must admit I felt out of my comfort zone because I hadn’t done any acting before. However, when I arrived on set the whole team was so welcoming and supportive. They made me feel like I could do it.”

In addition, there’s also a longer synopsis for the episode, which you can read below:

It’s the deepest part of winter, the exact midpoint, Christmas Eve - halfway out of the dark. Amy and Rory are trapped on a stricken space liner that’s plummeting through banks of thick icy fog to the surface of the planet below.

Only one man has the power to save them; only one man is in possession of a machine that can clear the fog and let them land safely.

That man is Kazran Sardick, a rich but lonely old miser who rules Sardicktown with a sky-mast of iron.

The Doctor’s only chance of rescuing the ship’s four thousand passengers is to save Kazran’s soul and show him that life is worth living. For this he needs to go back, way back, to when Kazran was a boy with a life full of promise.

But can the Doctor put a song in Kazran’s heart and love in his life, in time for Christmas? Can he bring him out of the dark?