Get your TARDIS ready for ‘Doctor Who’ event

After Peter Capaldi gave up his TARDIS at the end of the 2017 "Doctor Who" season, the BBC spent a lot of time and money advertising its new star.

And they had good reason. For the first time, the Doctor was going to be a woman. Namely, the actress Jodie Whittaker was named the 13th Doctor, and the airwaves in both Great Britain and the U.S. (mostly on BBC America) were filled with teasers featuring her.

It seems strange, though, that all that initial hoopla faded, despite Whittaker receiving mostly good reviews. Commenting halfway through Whittaker's first season, IndieWire critic Liz Shannon Miller wrote that her only qualm was that this first female doctor wasn't being allowed to be enough of a badass.

"There’s no denying that Whittaker has found her grasp on an incredibly challenging role," Miller wrote. "In her hands, the Doctor is smart, intuitive, and compassionate. But the scripts still need to give her the moment that her predecessors have had before: the moment which makes us realize that the Doctor’s face may change, but she is always the boss of us."

Season two is about to begin, and the PR campaign is just restarting. A big part of that campaign will be a one-night special event, titled the "Doctor Who Live Q&A and Screening," which will screen at 11 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 5 at two Regal Cinemas theaters: Northtown Mall and Coeur d'Alene's Riverstone Stadium.

The night will include the series 12 premiere episode, a live Q&A with Whittaker and "companions" Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill and "an exclusive early unveiling of the new season’s second episode."

Sorry. No Daleks allowed.