Doc and Rose back for third helping
Thursday, 30 Mar 2006 13:39
Doc and Rose back for third helping
Dr Who stars Billie Piper and David Tennant have signed up for a third series of the highly acclaimed BBC family drama.
The news will delight fans of the sci-fi show, with Tennant proving an extremely popular choice for the new Doc since replacing Christopher Eccleston who played the time-travelling timelord in the first series.
Announcing the new series, Tennant admitted that he initially found the prospect of playing one of the best-loved characters in British TV history extremely daunting.
"The worst bit was before we started work. It's all the hoo-ha that comes with this show. It makes it the most terrifying job in the world," he said.
"When I finished my first day of filming, I remember going home and collapsing with the amount of nervous energy that had been building up in the months previous to getting going. I have had a ball. I might still be here in 40 years."
Tennant and Piper remained fairly tight-lipped about the plot lines for the upcoming series, although Piper did admit that their lips - and tongues - cross paths in an upcoming episode, but joked that it was a shame it only took three takes.
"I could not wait [to kiss him]. We only got three takes. That was a bit disappointing," Piper said.
"I actually got to kiss Chris Eccleston three times [as well in series one] - or was it two? Rose is such a little minx. In with the new, out with the old. She can't get enough."
However, Tennant insisted that despite their romantic fling, Rose and the Doc would definitely not get together.
"They're two very sexy people but I think if they ever had a relationship it would kill the series stone dead," he said.
The show's producers also revealed that legendary comedian Stephen Fry was involved in the scripts for a number of episodes in the upcoming series, which hits our screens next month.
