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Billie chills on Doctor Who setReturning to the set of Doctor Who certainly sent shivers down Billie Piper’s spine.The former teen sensation was forced to literally chill in the cool air of night, as she waited around to start filming the first of her three comeback episodes.
The star grimaced under the stars, rugging up in a large bomber jacket as filming for the BBC series got under way in Cardiff.
The 25-year-old is returning to the cult sci-fi temporarily as Doctor Who’s assistant Rose Tyler.
When she last left, her character was transported to a parallel universe.
Piper re-launched her career after receiving a cluster of TV awards for the role, including the Most Popular Actress award twice at the National Television Awards in 2005 and 2006.
Can’t say much for the current regime’s faith in Catherine Tate as the new companion given that both Freema and Billie are returning this year, can you?
Personally, I think it’s just desperate measures to retain viewers for the fourth season. This follows the pattern that Russell has set each year; S1: death of the 9th Doctor, S2: Billie leaves, S3: Martha leaves… S4: Billie returns.
Readers of this blog have made their opinion known that while many love Billie and would love to see her on the program again, her story has been told. She became one with the universe, reunited her parents and managed to steal screen time from both the Daleks and Cybermen to profess her love to the Doctor. What more is left?
Another reason that I find this news so disappointing is that the classic series was rarely this into pulling stunts to pull viewers in. Granted, JNT was more than willing to film in Amsterdam or Spain to pull in viewers, but the program is very well respected.
It doesn’t need these kinds of gimmicks to pull in viewers… right?
The Daily P.O.P. 
right.
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Yey i think of that will be AWESOME! I mean, first Martha meets Donna and then Donna and Martha both meet Rose, and then they all get together with Sarah Jane & K-9 and then Captain Jack. That’s gonna be good with four female companions competting with each other with Jack and K-9 too. I also think bringing the Eighth Doctor back into the series for a geust role is pretty cool too. If Dravos is the villian then, how are they gonna bring the Daleks back they were all destroied wernt they? Any who, I can’t wait to see Series Four!
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I’m glad because last year without Rose wasn’t as good and cheesy, so yahoo Doctor + Rose 4ever, again!
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No. Not right. All these little end of season spurs aren’t because they’re short of viewers! i mean come on, this is doctor who, when will it ever be short of viewers? all end of seasons to every programme on tv hav dramatic ends to seasons- its what makes them worth watching! maybe the classic series didnt do that because it wasnt as good. these little surprises do pull back viewers but not that it needs to. it already gets enough. and i personally think that a good drama needs a good cliffhanger to make it worth watching next time round- its the same with books!
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By ‘books,’ I assume you mean either Harry Potter or ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ novels. Contrary to popular belief, most books do not have cliffhanger endings. They do, in fact, tell complete stories. Cliffhangers in TV are so prevalent now simply because viewers have so many other options other than following a weekly TV program. It’s a tool to hook viewers, not an extension of the storyteller’s craft.
The classic series is certainly not at fault for lack of cliffhanger endings to each season. On the contrary, the new series makes a mad stab at telling a cohesive season long story arc out of some strange compulsion to do so. Littering the phrase ‘Bad Wolf’ or ‘Torchwood’ throughout the year’s episodes does not a story make. And each of those arcs failed to make any real connection between the instances that make up an ‘arc’ at all.
For all of it’s flaws (and there so very many) season 23’s Trial of a Timelord did a better job of telling a season-long story.
For finales, the new series is also very poor. Throwing a mess of Cybermen and Daleks at a viewer is also not a story at all, it’s just a desperate attempt at overwhelming the viewer with visual effects. This year’s reunion of nearly every companion, enemy and monster sounds more like the dreaded 30th anniversary debacle updated for the 21st Century than a nail-biting thriller.
And despite the constant BAFTA awards, the program is constantly struggling to maintain its viewing figures (which as I’ve pointed out before are far lower than the average episode figures of the Classic Series). Dr Who has always been a TV program at risk of being axed by the BBC. The ‘rest’ that it is taking next year could just as easily be called a ‘hiatus’… which is a word no Whovian wants to hear.
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I think that having them all meeting up will end up as a disaster if both rose and martha are there because doctor wanted rose but martha wanted doctor and rose wanted doctor.LOL. I always think doctor who is good because its my fav program and i love david tennant.=D.
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yahoooooooo!!!!!!!!
but now that rose is bak, david tennant is levin
too bad 😦 sob sob
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Rose && Doctor forever. ❤
I cried at the goodbye scene. I’m still crying.
It hit’s you right in the heart.
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