"So, it's Monday, July the 18th." "And, um..." "I'm about to start my first day on Doctor Who." "I'm about to go to rehearsals." "Feels a bit strange that we've actually made it to today." "It's been such a long build-up." "I felt like it was never really going to happen." "Quite good, though, that we're starting, just to get going." "Because sitting and thinking about it and waiting for it to start is fairly nerve-making but we start today." "So, it's the read-through today of the first three episodes." "This is obviously the day when you're expecting to get recast at any moment." "The writers from the other episodes are coming down." "Steven Moffat, Stephen Fry and Toby Whithouse." "They are all writing scripts at the moment for me." "So it all does feel like all eyes are watching, slightly." "Just to say it out loud, kind of, in a big room for the first time." "Little bit intimidating but I'm sure we'll live." "What is this?" "The beginnings of my autobiography by Mr D Tennant." "We will now start to read episode 1." "Inside the Tardis." "Dark." "A figure up the ramp pulls down a lever." "The chain becomes alive." "The Doctor, in his element, the same old ship, but a new man." "So the read-through is done." "It was pretty terrifying." "The room was stowed full of people." "Nobody else seemed to be as nervous as I am, but then I suppose I am the new boy on this." "But it's okay." "I feel up for it now." "I feel ready to go and..." "I sort of can't wait to start now." "It's good." "TENNANT:" "It's the end of rehearsals." "James, what've you got to say as we head into the start of shooting?" "I think the fear is good." "Am I talking to you or the camera?" " I think the fear is good, David." " Billie." "(TENNANT LAUGHING)" "Have you seen this?" "Isn't this great?" " Who gave you that?" " I got it for David." " Fantastic." " Let me see." "Let me see." " Oh, that's good." "How sweet!" " You better wear it." " TENNANT:" "This is New Earth." " Where is this?" "HAWES:" "This is New New Earth." "This is on the Gower Peninsula." "The Gower." "The Gower." "And across here, I mean, they're building..." "They were built over this landscape..." "There's this great sort of land bridge that goes out toward this." "And out here will be a city that will look like New New Manhattan." "PIPER:" "We're imagining that?" "HAWES:" "You will imagine that." " It'll be there in the matte painting." " Great." "Not bad." "Not bad at all." "That's amazing." "HAWES:" "When you guys land, which will be on one of these promontories here, you'll come out of the Tardis, inland, if you like, you'll turn to see all of this." "And then down over here, away from the city, is a big white tower that is the hospital." "PIPER:" "Okay." " What is it?" " Some sort of hospital." "HAWES:" "It will all be hyper-real." "So these greens will be greener greens than you've ever seen." "The blues and things will be exaggerated." "We won't turn the grass purple or anything." "It'll just be hyper-real." "Exaggerated." " And all of that's going to be done on CGI?" " Yeah." "And then in this we'll really exaggerate the whites." "In fact, the outside of the hospital will be modelled to look like one of these lighting units," " so that the design is reflected in there." " Okay." "It's that man again!" "He's my good luck charm." "Any friendship expressed by the Duke of Manhattan does not constitute a form of legal contract." "PIPER:" "Where is he from?" "The Duke of Manhattan?" "Where's he really from?" "HAWES:" "He's really from Manhattan." "He's not an alien." "He's a human from the New New New New New Earth." "PIPER:" "Oh, right." " Oh, do you mean where's the actor from?" " Yeah." "He's American-born." "He's English." "So, our rehearsal week is over." "And I'm back in London." "Back at the flat." "I've got the weekend off and then we start filming on Monday." "Which is exciting, actually." "I'm looking forward to it now." "The nerves that began the week have..." "Well, they're still there but they've receded a fair bit." "Let's start." "Let's get going." "It's..." "It's the best job in the world." "Bring it on." "How are you doing?" " MAN:" "Is that a moment or is that a moment?" " That's a moment." "That's a moment." "PIPER:" "Thanks." "It's bigger on the inside, you know." "So, that is what we finally looked like." "I think it looks quite good." "The first day is over." "I'm absolutely exhausted." "I think there was so much nervous energy today." "Just getting through it and..." "It was so kind of over-exciting and I'm very over-stimulated." "I'm like a sort of five-year-old who's had too many E numbers." "And now I'm on the come-down." "I'm aching and I'm..." "The scenes went okay." "I mean, I'd like to do them again." "That's always the way, I suppose." "You're never happy, but it's done." "Now we move on." "We have to do it again tomorrow." "Every day now, for nine months." "Very pleased with the costume." "It was the first time I saw it all finally made today." "And I think they've done a beautiful job." "So I'm very pleased with that." "Billie was so lovely today and she's so good in it, as well." "And Noel and Camille are..." "Oh, I'm gushing like a luvvie." "But it is a very nice atmosphere on set." "Everyone's very, very friendly and good at what they do." "We hurtle through it as well." "They work very fast." "I think I've been used to productions where you hang around a bit more." "I think that's mostly a good thing." "I need to have something to eat, have a bath and go to bed, because tomorrow we crash-land the Tardis." "Hurrah!" "Tonight, Cat, I'm going to be..." "Christopher Eccleston." "(SCREAMING)" "Here we are, then." "It's about 10:45 on day three and it's been (BLEEP) on us solidly now, so we're a bit behind." "And we've got the big final scene of the Christmas special to try and do, with a snow machine and extras and wind effects and cranes, and we've got about five minutes to do it in." "So it's not been too smooth today." "But we'll see what happens next." "Take 1, B camera." "And action." "That's beautiful." "What are they?" "Meteors?" "It's the spaceship breaking up in the atmosphere." "This isn't snow." "It's ash." "Okay, not so beautiful." "And this is a brand-new planet Earth." "No denying the existence of aliens now." "Everyone saw it." "Everything's new." "And what about you?" "What are you going to do next?" "Well... back to the Tardis, same old life." " On your own?" " Why, don't you want to come?" "Well, yeah." "So, that was day three." "It was a funny day because the weather was appalling for most of it." "In the last couple of hours, we..." "We managed to get the big final scene of the Christmas special done, which was a big old set-up, with a crane and snow and..." "But then it suddenly became a lovely, clear night and it was sort of perfect for it." "A funny day that sort of ended quite well, I think." "All day today, there was people watching and taking photos and wanting autographs and..." "It's great that people are so enthusiastic about it, but it's quite..." "That takes a bit of getting used to as well." "You know, just sort of getting on with your job in the midst of all that." "So, yeah, although it's in July, we've had a week of very autumnal weather." "So it might even look like Christmas." "It's Monday, the 1 st of August, the beginning of week two." "And we're back in Cardiff." "We finished in London on Friday." "And Zoe Wanamaker and Sean Gallagher are here today." "We're doing a bit from the very end of episode 1." "So we're in a place called Ba Orient to film her scenes as the human Cassandra." "So far, so good." "(PEOPLE CHATTERING)" "There's Cassandra." "The middle of the party." "That's simply not true." "And believe me, it was so dismal." "And the mosquitoes, I can't tell you." "They were..." "Thank you." "Just go." "And don't look back." "Good luck." "Now, if anyone quotes me on that, there'll be trouble." "Maurice, behave." "Oh, naughty people." " A bientot." " Excuse me, the Lady Cassandra?" "I'm sorry, I don't need anything right now." "I'm fine, thank you." "No, I just wanted to say... you look beautiful." "Thank you." "See them eye-to-eye." "The two Cassandras." "Collapse." "People rushing around." "What's wrong?" "Someone get some help!" "HAWES:" "She's dying." "Go." "Cut it." "That's super." "Thank you very much." "Timing was just right as well..." "Thank you, Zoe." "We're travelling through the Wye Valley." "We're on our way to Clearwell Caves, where we're going to try and get this fight blocked out." " It's absolutely lovely." " MAN:" "It is." "Yes, it may be that we're lost in the Wye Valley, in fact." "So tonight, Billie and Noel and the rest of our wonderful production team are filming from 5:00 in the evening to 4:00 in the morning in Cardiff town centre." "We're excused that because we're on a fight rehearsal day." "So what we're doing... (MAN LAUGHING) ...is having tea." " You may borrow my knife." " Thank you so much." "There you go." "These are the difficult production decisions we're having to make today." "It's not easy." "Enjoy your night shoot, Bill." " For the planet?" " For the planet." "We've just finished the third day at Clearwell Caves, which is the inside of the Sycorax ship." "And I was supposed to finish for the weekend tonight, as was Billie and Noel, but we are miles behind on this." "We've just still got loads to do in this sequence." "TENNANT:" "It's not that we are going particularly slowly, I don't think, although we do seem to get caught up with the oddest things." "Moving the Tardis took about an hour because it's such a rickety old thing." "It looks so solid, but it isn't." "So we're back in tomorrow." "But, I mean, there's still all the work that was going to happen tomorrow." "All the scenes with Dan Evans and all the mission control on the spaceship." "That's still got to be done, too." "All the time, you just feel the kind of trundle of time pressure, all the time." "I kind of suspect it's going to be like that for the next eight and a half months." "I just wish we had a bit more time." "Phil was telling me today that at this stage last year, they were three weeks in and two weeks behind." "So at least we're not doing as badly as they did last time." "Welcome to my Sycorax wing." " PIPER:" "Why is there soil on the wing?" " Because the spaceship is made of rock." "Go on, missy!" "(MAN LAUGHING)" "Stay back!" "All right." "Cut." "So, the fight stuff is finally finished." "And I've had messages from Julie and Russell today, both having seen the rushes." "Both were very pleased with it, so that's encouraging." "I went on Blue Peter yesterday, which was an interesting experience." "PRESENTER:" "And here he is, Doctor number 10, David Tennant." " Welcome to Blue Peter." " Hello." "Thank you very much." " Great to have you here." " It's a great pleasure to be here." " Still got the same teeth?" " Yeah, I'm just wearing them in." "Difficult to do 'cause you're trying to sort of join in, you know, to the tone of the whole thing but you don't want to turn into one of those grinning loons who appear on children's television." "If you would like to ask David a question, the great news is he's doing a web chat, live, after the show, so log on at 5:30." "Did that yesterday and I'm at home today, I've got a day off." "I'm back in London..." "trying to learn the lines for the next episode, because that's the Christmas special pretty much done, bar a couple of little bits and pieces." "Monday, we move on to the other two episodes." "On Tuesday, K9 and Sarah Jane arrive." "K9... in the house." "I haven't seen K9 yet." "I don't know if they've done any kind of updating, or whether it's literally the same model that was used way back." "So, yeah, we're moving on." "The first episode is pretty much done." "Obviously there's months and months of post-production to be gone through, but, from my point of view, pretty much done." "And it all gets a lot harder now, 'cause I got a fair bit of time off in the Christmas special." "Or a fair bit of time lying in bed, being feverish." "And from now on, it's a lot more intense." "A lot more lines to learn." "It's Monday, the 22nd of August." "It's a bit of an odd day today." "We're back in HTV studios in Cardiff and we're kind of finishing lots of bits off." "We've got a studio with just the pods from episode 1 at one end, then there's a bunch of green screen in the middle, which is Sycorax ship, and a million other things." "And then there's the Tylers' flat at the other end." "I'm just about to be put into a harness to fall down a wire." "Very curious-looking... cycling shorts with a lot of padding in the crotch." "Which does make one worry slightly about what they're anticipating this harness might do to me." "So we'll see what happens next." "Well, that was a bit of a disaster, actually, the end of that day." "We dropped the nun for episode 1 on the wires, and did a few other bits and pieces, but the drop with me and stunt Rose never happened." "They had the wrong bit of rigging or something." "So that's it." "I got sent home and met Elisabeth Sladen in the make-up bus, who was doing a, I guess, a make-up test, because she starts tomorrow." "Sarah Jane's back." "Very exciting." "Very exciting." "That's the news, really." "We didn't get it done, but we move on regardless." "We're now well into recording on episode 3, School Reunion, and we've got Billie Piper dressed as a dinner lady." "I don't think it gets much better than that." " Am I enjoying this?" " Yeah." "I'm loving it." "I have to say, you're carrying it off surprisingly well." "TENNANT:" "Yeah, this isn't the official foot..." " Yeah, this will be with clogs..." " Yeah." "...on the day." "It's a good look." "You're managing to make the dinner lady funky." "Well, I added a few things." "I'm thinking about accessorising a bit more." "Yeah?" "It's weird having Sarah Jane there because I grew up watching her and she's back just exactly as she always was." "You don't have to search for any kind of emotional reaction to that." "It's all there, for free." "And it's got to be said, the transformation you've brought about, it's amazing." "I mean, maybe you're working the children a little bit too hard now and then, but I think good results are more important than anything." "Exactly." "You're a woman of vision, Miss Smith." "Oh, I can see everything, Mr Finch." "Quite clearly." "TENNANT:" "How's it been, Anthony?" " It's been..." "It's been really, really special." " It's his last day." "TENNANT:" "Tony Head as Mr Finch is great." "He's the most down-to-earth and fun bloke." " We love you!" "Come back!" " We love you." "We love you, too." "No, I love you..." "Whatever." "The little dog with the nasty bite." "Not so powerful now, are you?" "Mad." "K9 was there today." "TENNANT:" "This is K9, looking a bit worse for wear." " And this is Mickey, looking..." " Even worse." "...rather fine." " Thank you." " Looking very perky this morning." " Thank you." "It doesn't really work, keeps bumping into things, which I think is sort of traditional." "The way he always was, so that's quite fun, too." "You bad dog." "Affirmative." "So, it's weird, it's a whole new episode." "Action." "It feels very different." "Very different, actually." "But I'm really enjoying it." "There are scenes in this, in the way that there aren't in the Christmas special." "The Christmas special had sort of set pieces for me." "But this is lovely scenes, quite..." "You know, sort of..." "Which require a bit of sort of proper acting, too." "As well as lots of running up and down corridors and sonic screwdrivering and all that kind of fun." "So..." "It's good, yeah." "On Thursday, we're switching on the Christmas lights in Cardiff." "So this is the preparatory meeting." " That's a model of..." "Is that you, Billie?" " Yeah, looking very '40s." "(LAUGHING)" " Look at you." " Who am I?" "Who have I come as?" " Old Uncle Fester." " Sergeant Bilko." "This is the piece de resistance." "Instead of the normal plunger..." "You know, you've got those, sort of, arc..." "The glass globes with the static electricity inside." "TENNANT:" "Yeah, yeah!" "PIPER:" "Yeah!" "We got one of those." "So the way it's going to work is when you do the countdown..." "PIPER:" "We're going to say... (ALL SPEAKING WELSH)" "ALL:" "Nadolig Llawen." " That'd be fantastic if you could say that." " PIPER:" "And then bendigedig." " Bendigedig!" " And what's bendigedig?" "PIPER:" "Fantastic." "I'm on my way to turn on the Christmas lights, but Billie's trapped on the M4, which is a bit dramatic, so we're hoping she's going to get there in time." "Malcolm's just arrived to pick me up with the programme." "So, I don't know what happens if Rose can't make it." "It's all getting very exciting." "Nadolig Llawen." "We're just arriving backstage now." "The security man tried to send us to the Bute Street car park, but we managed to persuade him that we have to be here." "Here's another one." "Hi, BBC." "I've got David Tennant." " Dropping off, yeah?" " Yeah." "We're through." "Will Billie have made it?" "TENNANT:" "Dame Billie is arriving as we speak." " It's all going on outside." " PIPER:" "Yeah." " Somebody broke the plasma globe." " PIPER:" "Can you believe it?" "So, in the absence of our plasma globe, what have we got instead?" "I'm going to show you now." "Here you go." " You know those little flat panels?" " PIPER:" "Okay." "So, do we touch it?" "Touch either side again." "So ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one." "Nadolig Llawen." " Nadolig Llawen?" " Nadolig Llawen." "TENNANT:" "By which point, all hell will have broken loose." " Fireworks will have gone off." " So we'll be screaming Nadolig Llawen." "Hooray!" " How are you feeling, Billie?" "You nervous?" " Yeah." " I am, too." " Terrified." " I don't know why." " I don't know why." "You only have to throw a switch." "We don't have to throw a switch." "We have to touch a plasma ball, fizz, bang..." "Something." " Doofah." " Yeah, one of them." " Here we go." " Christmas lights." "TENNANT:" "Nadolig Llawen." " Nadolig Llawen." " Nadolig Llawen." "PIPER:" "Bendigedig!" "This is among the most mental things I have ever done in my life." "This is bizarre." "Look at the Tardis." "What's the most unusual thing you've had to do as Doctor Who?" "I don't know, every day is a bit different, really." "The other day we were hanging 30 feet in the air, but I can't tell you why." "I get to play a woman, but I can't tell you why." "I can't really tell you anything, it gives the plot away." "We do have the Cybermen." "(AUDIENCE CHEERING)" "How scary is that?" "They are genuinely, absolutely terrifying." "They're really tall." "They're twice the size, they're huge." "They're big, beefy, burly..." "Well, you'll see." "They're quite sexy, actually." "TENNANT:" "Steady on." "Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's the time we've all been waiting for." "Cardiff is about to be lit up." "Over to you two." "Okay, you're going to have to help us count down." "PIPER:" "From ten to one." "Are you ready?" "AUDIENCE:" "Yes!" "Are you ready?" "AUDIENCE:" "Yes!" "Okay." "ALL:" "Ten!" "Nine!" "Eight!" "Seven!" "Six!" "Five!" "Four!" "Three!" "Two!" "One!" "Nadolig Llawen!" " Thank you!" " Merry Christmas!" "Merry Christmas!" "BOTH:" "Nadolig Llawen!" "It's Thursday, the 24th of November, and we're filming the big Cybermen attack that happens at the end of episode 5." "We should've finished last night, but we didn't." "Very cold." "Cybermen still look great, though." "There's a Cyberman in a dressing gown." " Trying to keep warm." " MAN:" "Yeah." "MAN:" "Ready!" "TENNANT:" "Here come the Cybermen, all in a row, holding hands." "The Cybermen have got elastic bands around their wrists." "PIPER:" "Tell us why, Phil." "They've got elastic bands around their wrists so that they can keep the tension." "Because they have no periphery vision and so they can't see each other." "So in order for them to march together they need a bit of tension between each other to keep them together and in a straight line." " Off they go." " PIPER:" "Look at them skipping." "COLLINSON:" "Skipping now." "TENNANT:" "How many layers are you wearing tonight, Shaun?" "Just the three." "Yeah?" "How many have you got on, Noelly?" "I haven't got any thermals on my legs." " Haven't you?" " No, not at all." " TENNANT:" "Really?" " Little popsicle sticks." "They're freezing." " How many have you got on, David?" " I've got pads in my shoes." "Heat pads in my shoes, and very thick, new, grey, thick socks." "MAN:" "They're so nice." "PIPER:" "They look like thrombosis tights." "(LAUGHING)" "TENNANT:" "It's very good for my circulation at the same time." "These are small ones I've got on as well." " So they're quite..." "They hug." " TENNANT:" "That is quite a sexy shot, actually." " Yeah?" " Yeah." "Your hairs aren't really supposed to stick through, though, are they?" "PIPER:" "Mine do, don't worry." "TENNANT:" "This van is where the sound people live." "(STRANGE ELECTRICAL SOUNDS)" "Nicholas Briggs talks in funny voices." "He thinks people are recording it." "They're not, they're just humouring him." "To be honest, these Cybermen make such a bloody racket... that any sound that's being recorded is completely useless anyway tonight." "Cyber-flirting." "And now it's snowing." "I'm here sheltering inside Malcolm's car." "But the snow is now coming down in a proper old blizzard." "I don't really know what we do now." "Come back in February?" "We're in trouble now." "I don't know when or how we're going to finish this scene." "Phil's doing this." "TENNANT:" "Oh dear, that's not a good look." " The snow is beginning to go off." " It has..." "It's just a few little bits now." "Look, you see, they're sweeping the snow away." "TENNANT:" "Oh, yeah, there's..." "A bit of broom action." "They may make us do more work now." "I hear that, you know..." "If any real Doctor Who fans are watching this, we might be going for a Claws of Axos rewrite." "If you follow me." "TENNANT:" "The snow has stopped, although it's all over the ground." "So it's been swept off that bit and we're going again." "We've lost about an hour." "And action!" "We volunteer for the upgrade programme." "Take us to be processed." "You are rogue elements." "But we surrender." "You are incompatible." "But this is a surrender!" "You will be deleted." "But we're surrendering!" "Listen to me!" "We surrender!" "You are inferior." "Man will be reborn as Cyberman but you will perish under maximum deletion." "Delete." "Delete." "It's December the 25th, 2005." "I'm up in Scotland, at my mum and dad's." "And in, I don't know, about seven hours' time," "The Christmas Invasion will be on and that's it." "We will finally be broadcasting the show that we've been working on for all these months, which is quite a big moment, quite exciting." "It's everywhere." "The build-up to this Christmas special has been bewildering." "We are on the cover of every TV guide going, it seems." "Very exciting and no pressure." "It's nice to be up with family for Christmas and I guess we'll all sit round and watch it." "And I hope they like it." "Merry Christmas." "ANNOUNCER:" "It's the Christmas special we've all been waiting for." "Something's coming, but can the Doctor make mincemeat..." "WOMAN:" "Course he can." "He's sitting here!" "(WOMAN CHATTERING)" "(DOG BARKING)" "This is when she hears the noise, is it?" " No!" " I'm sorry... (LAUGHING)" "No, I just..." "I don't want a running commentary, thank you very much." "Just little wee snippets." "Mickey?" "Shush!" "(LAUGHING)" " What is your mother on?" " Shh!" " Mickey." " Jackie, it's the Tardis." "I know, I know." "I heard it." "She's alive, Mickey." "I said so, didn't I?" "She's alive!" "MICKEY:" "Just shut up a minute." "JACKIE:" "Where is it, then?" "(CHATTERING)" " But who is he?" "Where's the Doctor?" " That's him." "Right in front of you." "That's the Doctor." "What do you mean, that's the Doctor?" "Doctor who?" "Oh, dear!" "(ALL LAUGHING)" "TENNANT:" "So, how was it watching the show last night?" "Was it as surreal an experience for you as it was for me?" "Not really." "No, we're kind of used now to seeing you on the telly." "Good to see that Doctor Who now kicked off, though." "It was very special." "I think everybody..." " Everybody I met has said it was fantastic." " Even our family." " I know, yeah." " Yeah." " You reckon the kids liked it?" " Oh, very much." "Yeah." "The fact is, they absolutely stayed still and watched it, even though they had all their Christmas stuff." "So, the one thing I do have to just before I go back to Cardiff..." "Yeah?" "Perhaps, Mother, you can talk us through what this might be that you have acquired over the last few months." " This is a gift from a friend of mine." " Yeah." " Who's very good at cross-stitch." " Yeah." "Which is what this is." "It's interesting." "I don't know if this signifies that I've made it or at the end of my career." "It's one or the other." "(ALL LAUGHING)" "But you must admit, it is a good likeness." "You would know it was you." "The one thing that I've had one or two comments about is the boggle eyes." "But then..." "I think maybe I am a little boggle-eyed." "Maybe we just have to admit it." " I think we have to, yes." " Yeah." "Maybe that's the secret of my success." "And on that bombshell, we say goodbye to the McDonald family." "And I head back to Cardiff." " And a Happy New Year when it comes." " There you go, Happy New Year." "Kind of feels exciting now that it's out there, up and running." "Some people have been saying how annoying it is that they have to wait till April to see any more." "So that's good." "Yeah, what a relief." "That's it." "Christmas's come and gone." "It's finally out there." "And..." "I'm it now." "This is the shoot for the style guide for the series." "Just setting up to do a bunch of shots." "I'm not entirely sure what that means, but it basically means lots and lots of photographs." "I think." " Kate, can you explain what we're doing today?" " Yeah, absolutely." "What we're going to do today is, this is the publicity, picture publicity for the national press and the international press." "So over there, we'll be shooting you in a minute for the tabloids, the supplements, the listings, magazines for this country, and over here, this is the commercial sector, so we're shooting for the international press and for DVD covers," "and for books and merchandise and all that kind of stuff." " So all the DVD covers..." " Yes." "...that you ever see will all come from tonight's shoot?" "All from today's shoot, absolutely, and we're here for a very long time and we've only just begun." "There's Mr Finch." "There's Sarah Jane." "Here's some Cybermen." "This is Mark, our photographer for the evening." "That's fine." "Just do a straight-to-camera for Polaroid." "We are just started on episode 11, Fear Her." "We are in a housing estate in Wales, which is doubling for a housing estate in East London at the time of the 2012 Olympics." "And all is well except for the fact that it's very, very, very cold." "It's January in Cardiff rather than the summer in East London and we're freezing." "It does feel like we've been cold for weeks now." "Continually trying to not look like you're shivering." "When we started filming back in July, we had a few quite nice days out on location." "But they seem to be a thing of memory now." "Distant memory." "It's so cold, we've actually had to rewrite lines in the script to talk about the Isolus drawing the heat in around it, because everybody's talking with such clouds in their breath that it's evidently close to zero degrees at the moment." "Do this for a couple of weeks and then we're off to the 1950s for The Idiot's Lantern, which is next." "Hopefully it'll warm up a bit." "TENNANT:" "We tried to wrangle a cat." " TENNANT:" "Euros trying to keep calm." " Was that wrangle or strangle?" "It's going to scratch my face." "Peter Bennett is a sort of Dr Dolittle figure." "Standing over there is the writer who made us film with the cat." "Thanks very much, Matthew." "Cheers, mate." " PIPER:" "Look at Dr Dolittle." " Yeah." "He's a sort of Grizzly Adams." "He's actually attached to a wire." "There's Craig round the corner, yanking the cat on a bit of fish wire." "How you feeling about that, Tiddles?" "Soon as you're ready, we'll just put Billie down, we'll scare him away." "TENNANT:" "Thanks for the cat, Matthew." "You're welcome." "Should've made it an animatronic." "Yeah." "CGI cat we could just shove in." "Yeah." "What?" "No, I'm not really a cat person." "Once you've been threatened by one in a nun's wimple, kind of takes the joy out of it." "(CAT MEWS)" "Come here, puss." "What do you want to go in there for?" "It's Monday, the 16th of January." "We're on a windswept beach somewhere and we're filming Billie's last-ever scenes in Doctor Who." "It's not her last-ever scenes in Doctor Who 'cause it's only January, so she's still got about five episodes to do." "But we're filming the very end of episode 13 now, so it's all top secret today." "I've just had to sign for today's script pages because they're not being given out to anybody beyond the five cast today," "to try and keep it a bit of a secret as to what happens at the end." "But anyway, we've got the farewell scene to do between the Doctor and Rose." "Very sad scene, very simple, very beautiful bit of writing from old Russell." "So I guess it's a bit of an important day 'cause it's..." "This will see Rose pootle off into the sunset." "Obviously, it's..." "You know, it feels like quite an important moment." "It's very sad." "We were just running the lines in the make-up trailer and it's very moving stuff." "You're dead, officially." "Back home." "So many people died that day and you've gone missing." "You're on a list of the dead." "But here you are, living a life, day after day." "The one adventure I can never have." "Am I ever going to see you again?" "You can't." "What are you going to do?" "I've got the Tardis." "Same old life." "Last of the Time Lords." "On your own?" "I..." "I love you." "Quite right, too." "And I suppose... if it's my last chance to say it," "Rose Tyler..." "(ROSE SOBBING)" "Cut!" "TENNANT:" "In this very corridor last year, they had their very first day of filming on Doctor Who series one." "I think this is where the little pig man got shot." "And today, more than a year later, we're back in the same location, but this time it's Ally Pally in 1953." "Just a little bit of Doctor Who trivia for you, fact fans." "So this is Alexandra Palace, 1953." "BBC security guard and a young Verity Lambert, I believe." "TENNANT:" "I find this can be very windy." "Windy?" "Windy is fine." "It is pretty high up, we're supposed to be high up." "TENNANT:" "Yeah." " But..." " But I might fall off." " No, you won't." " Okay." "We've got bits of string to tie you on." "Okay, that's all right, then." "Now I'm not worried any more." "Action." " This is my little video diary." " Hello." "TENNANT:" "It's Saturday, the 18th of February and we're on a heliport in Cardiff, filming the upper reaches of the Ally Pally transmitter." "That's the top bit and that's the bottom bit." "And that's a man dressed as me, Gordon Seed, stunt double." "With a fake quiff." "And there's a big bloody wind machine that they blow at us." "As if it wasn't cold enough." "There's Doctor Who Confidential on the balcony." "What are they doing?" "There's a helicopter over there, look." "It's too late." "It's too late for all of us!" "No more." "No more of this." "You promised me peace." "(MAGPIE SCREAMING)" "Been burning the candle at both ends?" "You've over-reached yourself." "Rubber soles, swear by them." "MAN:" "Okay, cut." "We're in a kind of rather spooky corner of Newport docks." "It's pretty bleak and pretty Gothic." "And we've got a bunch of faceless people in a cage." "These crew are supporting artists who've been wearing these prosthetics for hours now." "They can't see much." "They can't hear or speak very much, which can't be a lot of fun." "Especially as it's cold, dank and pretty unpleasant for them." "I've got some nice, warm soup." "This is where the faceless people sit before they're taken off to go and stand in a cage all night." "But they can't really talk to each other or see each other, so they just sit in silence in this little tent, in the middle of this freezing cold dock." "I'm sure there's some EU regulation that forbids this kind of practice." "They've got music anyway." "I think, they literally play soothing music to stop them all going mad." "They literally can't see a thing." "They're having all to be led one by one back to the prosthetics wagon." "It's grim." "Guys, has this been the weirdest thing you've ever had to do?" "Is it really grim in there?" "TENNANT:" "Right, yes." "Yes." "Apart from that, it's great!" "You're having a ball." "So, block five begins today and I'm in a spacesuit." "And we're in a quarry." "It's like a proper sci-fi show." "And we begin the two-parter, The Satan Pit, today." "And all this week we're doing proper through-the-nights in this quarry." "Just me and Claire, who's playing Ida." "Billie's got a whole week off." "Can you believe that?" "And this is the beginning of the final block, really." "In five weeks' time, series two will all be over." "It could be a kind of challenging week, but we shall see." "I'll let you know." "TENNANT:" "This is our little space capsule." " CLAIRE:" "So, Sarah." " Hmm-hmm?" " TENNANT:" "There's Claire." "...fandabidozi." "Do you think she looks like Bruce Willis in this?" "Interesting." "MAN:" "Stand by." "And action." "ROSE:" "What's it like down there?" "It's hard to tell." "Some sort of cave." "Cavern." "It's massive." "Well, this should help." "Gravity globe." "That's..." "That's..." "Oh, my God." "That's beautiful." "Rose... you can tell Toby... we've found his civilisation." "Yeah." "I have terrible helmet hair." "You feel a bit lost 'cause you literally can't hear anyone unless they're shouting." "We can't hear each other during acting." "You hear this vague mumble and you just wait till the mumble stops then you say your line." "It's very odd." "Well, we've come this far." "There's no turning back." "DOCTOR:" "Oh, did you have to?" "No turning back?" "That's almost as bad as "Nothing can possibly go wrong"" "or "This is gonna be the best Christmas Walford's ever had."" "Have you finished?" "Yeah." "Finished." "It's the last day." "It's the 31 st of March, 2006." "It's lunch time." "It's just 2:00 now." "So in five hours' time we will have finished filming on series two, Doctor Who." "It's weird." "Billie's got two scenes left." "I think Billie herself is a bit numb to it really at the moment." "I suspect it'll all hit afterwards." "But everyone's very excited about the wrap party tonight." "I think after nine months, everyone is ready to go a bit bananas." "It is a bit like the end of term, which indeed is exactly what it is." "I can't really believe that... that's it." "I think I'm going to miss it." "You get almost institutionalised doing these kind of hours for this many months." "It'll be a bit like being released back out into the community." "I might be like one of those... patients from the mental home who can't cope in the outside world." "Couple of nights ago, we had a screening for the cast and crew of episodes 1 and 2, and it was lovely." "It was great to see everybody so enthusiastic and excited about the work that we've all done." "And to see the work looking so good." "So, that's it." "The final day, it has..." "It has arrived." "And... it's just about over." "Bye." " WOMAN:" "What did you do to the Tardis?" " Put a hole in it." "Non's broken the Tardis." " Luckily it's our last day." " Thank God." "TENNANT:" "That's Non's handiwork." "And Non's supposed to be in charge of continuity." "So, Claire, it's the final day of series two, and here you are in the Tardis." " In the Tardis." " Yeah." "I'm in the Tardis." "And I think you'll find there aren't many guest actors who get to be where I am right now." "Sure, I'm unconscious." "That's irrelevant." "Sure, I don't say anything to you." " You're very much here." "Very much a presence." " Very much here." " Yeah." " I'm happy to be here." " Yeah." "Have you had a nice time?" " I've loved it." " Yeah." "Are you going to miss us?" " Yes, I am, actually." "Everybody said that I'd have a really nice time, that the crew was lovely and that you were lovely." " You don't believe a word of it, really." " I didn't." "But it's all true." "It's been fab." " Are you coming to the wrap party tonight?" " I certainly am." "And this is going to be me, 3:00, tomorrow morning." "This is me after "action" in the scene." " This is me at 3:00 this morning." " Good." " Well, at least you're getting to practise." " Yeah." " Well, we've loved having you." " Thank you." "Thank you for coming to play." "My pleasure, treasure." "(BOTH LAUGHING)" "This is Billie Piper lining up for her final close-up on Doctor Who." "She looks quite calm about it, quite..." "She looks all right about it to me." "Can I get some still water, please?" "Action." "Doctor, what did you find down there?" "That creature, what was it?" "I don't know." "Never did decipher that writing." "But that's good." "The day I know everything, I might as well stop." "What do you think it was, really?" "I think we beat it." "That's good enough for me." "It said I was going to die in battle." "Then it lied." "Right!" "Onwards, upwards." "Ida, see you again maybe." "Hope so." "And thanks, boys!" "Hold on, though, Doctor." "You never really said." "You two, who are you?" "Oh, the stuff of legend." "Thanks very much, everybody." "That is a wrap." "(CHEERING)" "Thank you ever so much, and let's go and get pissed." "I'm very excited 'cause look..." "The Daleks are on set." "Of course, on all the call sheets they're just down as "enemy"" "so nobody knows what's really going on." "It's very exciting." "There's one there as well." "It's good when the voice echoes around in here." "It sounds like the Dalek movies." "The echoing voice." "I thought so anyway." "I'm loving it." "I can't believe it." " TENNANT:" "The producer's broken the Dalek." " It was my fault." "I was trying to molest Phil Collinson and use it as a..." "He was trying to shove the sucker into me." "WOMAN:" "Some gaffer tape." "Some black tack." "Yes, everybody's out with their cameras now." " I'm so embarrassed." " You're bang to rights." " Am I red?" " WOMAN:" "And this one..." " TENNANT:" "Show us your medallion." " It's not as big as his." "Here's my medallion." "Like Jimmy Savile." " It's very bling." " Yeah." "I'm going to wear it tomorrow night." "TENNANT:" "That's Sophia surrounded by Daleks." " What does this do?" "It's like a whisk." " That's the gun." " What's that?" " Why would it have a whisk?" "Is it travelling the galaxy baking cakes?" " What's this then?" "What does that do?" " That does everything else." "That's like their hand." "Goes into computer terminals and it..." "It can also suck your brain out and stuff like that." "So who wins between..." "The battle of the Daleks and the Cybermen." " The Daleks are tougher." " But you didn't answer the question." "There's only four Daleks and there's five million Cybermen." " Well, of course, the answer to who wins is me." " Of course." " But..." " I beat them all, basically." "Cyberthreat irrelevant." "Concentrate on the Genesis Ark." "No wonder you scream." "The Doctor will open the Ark!" "(CHUCKLING)" "The Doctor will not." "You have no way of resisting." "Well, you got me there." "Although... there is always this." "A sonic probe?" "That's screwdriver." "We've done the Doctor meeting the Daleks, winding them up a bit." "And now we're doing the bit where the room starts exploding." "So we get to blow some stuff up." "Some of my favourite moments." "And action." "Alert, alert, alert." "Alert." "Alert." "Casing impaired, casing impaired." " Mickey, come on." " Adapt to weaponry." "Jake, protect the stairwell." "The rest of you, come on." "Cybermen have been exterminated." "Daleks are supreme." "The Genesis Ark is primed." "Genesis Ark mobile." "It's Monday, the 19th of September." "The end of last week was about as crazy as I've ever known anything to be really." "We're galloping toward the end of block one now." "James Hawes is supposed to finish on this coming..." "Thursday." "And that should be episodes 1 and 3 and the Christmas special done." "It's been mental trying to get it all in and trying to get everyone who had..." "Various actors who were supposed to finish last week, trying to get their scenes done whilst they're being done with cat-nun-nurse faces and Duke of Manhattan prosthetics and..." "The logistics of it all alongside the kind of relentless... straitjacket of the schedule." "Each day's call sheet just sort of meaning less than nothing as we just... ferreted around for what we could do and what we had to do to get people cleared." "Madness." "Absolute madness." "But I've just heard that Billie has taken poorly." "She's going to be off for the next two days." "So, the schedule which was already hanging together with bits of cellotape has now completely fallen to pieces and I'm waiting to hear what happens next." "I guess I could get called to Cardiff sort of now, although..." "Well, it's now 11:10." "I don't know." "I don't suppose I could be there before 4:00." "And then what do we do tomorrow?" "'Cause Billie is still not going to be back." "So, I'm just waiting to hear now." "I suspect that means our day off on Friday, which was supposed to be our kind of turn-around day before block two," "I suspect that's now disappeared." "As we'll have to catch up." "I think there is stuff they could do with just me tomorrow." "Not a lot, but bits and pieces." "Maybe that would be quite good." "We could just hoover up lots of bits." "We could even maybe do sort of bits of my scenes for..." "I don't know." "It's all crazy." "It's the most mental job on Earth." "And it just keeps getting madder." "Okay, I've just spoken to Phil." "Tomorrow is cancelled." "We're all stood down." "We start again on Wednesday, if Billie's better." "If she's not better, I guess we start again on Thursday." "So the madness continues." "Crazy." "Poor Billie, though." "She's obviously proper poorly." "MAN:" "We just wanted to sing Happy Birthday, Billie." "ALL: # Happy birthday to you" "# Happy birthday to you" "# Happy birthday, dear Billie" "# Happy birthday to you #" "Hooray!" " Did you approve your image on that cake?" " Yeah, I did, actually." " Yeah, good." " I was happy for it this way." "TENNANT:" "I know..." " Oh, wow." " Hooray." "All right, where does one start with this?" "What do you reckon?" "TENNANT:" "Through the face." "Right through the face." "(ALL LAUGHING)" "(ALL CHEERING)" "Oh, that felt good." "(ALL LAUGHING)" "Hi, this is..." "This is mini-me, which I've just been shown for the first time." "This is coat version." "There will also be non-coat version." "And this is my K9." "That is very..." " Can you get a big close-up on that?" " WOMAN:" "Big close-up coming up." " With moveable head." " With moveable head." "TENNANT:" "And a little sonic screwdriver." "And his hand comes off." "That probably won't happen in the final design." "Unless that's for the Christmas episode where he gets his hand sliced off." "This is a prototype." "It's the only one in existence at the moment." "In the other ones, the heads won't come off and we won't kill small children." "WOMAN:" "David, what does it feel like to be presented with a very small version of you?" "Utterly surreal is what it feels like." "But I'm kind of digging it." "It's quite cool." "MINCHIN:" "Did you expect this sort of thing to happen?" "Not really, no." "'Cause Doctor Who never had things like this in the old days." "I remember really wanting them." "I really wanted a little Tom Baker." "So it's very exciting." "Fantastic." "Move over Harry Potter." "(ALL LAUGHING)" "TENNANT:" "This is regeneration Doc and this is new Doc." "That's quite a weird, scary thing." "That's a very odd moment, when one becomes an action figure." "It's the 7th of November and we are about to blow up the Tardis." "We're actually going to be in the shot so Lynsey is going to film that, and there's an air of expectation." "The Tardis is going to be blown to smithereens." "Well, I don't know how big the explosion is going to be, but we are about to find out." "Okay, stand by, then." "And action." "I was..." "I was calibrating." "I was just..." "I know exactly what I'm doing." "Jesus." "We're about to do the wall of fire." " Fire." " Billie's a bit worried about her hair." "And my dress." "Naked child running around." "Going up like a cheap nightie." "But it's quite exciting." "And is this through choice or is this through saving money, David?" "It's purely saving money." "The shoot's getting on now." "They've got enough shots of us." "Lf, you know, if we do go up, they can cobble together something." "For the last few episodes, it'll be fine." "MAN:" "That's brilliant." "These are Cybermen without their heads yet." " He's like the Tin Man in Wizard of Oz." " Yeah." "Action." "There's no way out." "Cut." "Cut that." " It's kind of hot." " Yeah." "I might not need this thermal any more." "We're in Ward 26, this rather amazing set... with all these various patients." "And the Face of Boe behind me." "And it's quite amazing." "It's been built in Newport." "The Tardis is about 100 metres away." "But it's an amazing set that they've just rustled up in a week." "Fantastic." "This is Sarah's second role of the week." "This box... stops Michael from exploding of heat." "It turns me into a baked Alaska." "I'm ice cream inside and meringue out." "This is Lotta, who's in charge of it all." " Are you happy now?" " I'm very happy now." "Good." "TENNANT:" "How wet are your knickers at the end of the day?" "It depends on how many times I miss." "MAN:" "Who are you talking to?" "Dustin Hoffman, when he did Little Big Man, always had to have somebody hold it because he was all made-up and couldn't." " I'm not quite that lucky." " You don't have a toilet wallah?" " No." " What's he padded with?" "Polystyrene balls and silicon balls." "Why does it have to be that?" " They move." " Yeah, yeah. 'Cause they move." "Polystyrene balls don't weigh anything and silicon balls are having the natural..." " squishiness." " And what gives us that lovely chin effect?" "Eating too much." "So, it's the new year." "It's January and we're back at it." "We're still doing block three, still being directed by Graeme Harper, and doing episodes 5 and 6, 12 and 13." "All the Cyberman stuff." "And all is well." "The show is obviously now out there, after the Christmas special, which got a great reception and has gone down very well." "So it's all slightly different now, you know." "Going shopping has suddenly become a bit more tricky, wandering around the street and so on." "But everyone's been very nice." "And today we are in an RAF base, somewhere near Cardiff, in a big hangar which is doubling for..." "Torchwood, the hangar at Torchwood." "So, yeah..." "Like we've never been away, back at it." " Tracy-Ann Oberman, welcome to Doctor Who." " I'm very honoured to be here." " Are you?" " One of my favourite programmes." "And I'm a very big fan of David Tennant." " Yeah." " Very excited today." "We're at an RAF base and all the soldiers, the RAF airmen, they're all watching." "Yeah, there's real soldiers watching." " Real soldiers watching, yeah." " Yeah." "It's a bit cold here, it's freezing, and what they've managed to do on Doctor Who is make it colder inside the set than it is outside." " Have you got your thermals on?" " I've got my hand-warmers." "That's it?" "That's all you've got to go on?" "I couldn't fit a thermal 'cause my top's so low cut." " I couldn't fit a thermal vest on." " Well, if you will play a brazen hussy." "But no, it's been fantastic." "Today we're doing all the big..." "My speaking." "You have lots of talking today." "We've got to go now." "Susie's calling us." "Final touch-up." " This is Anwen." " This is Anwen." "Working her magic." "Fifteen hours in make-up, Tracy-Ann takes." " Sixteen." " And that's an easy day." " Yeah." "She's been here all weekend." " I have actually." "So this is Torchwood." "Thing with the blue light." "Not entirely sure which planet this thing's supposed to have come from." "From the planet of the strange-looking-statue-of-cat people." "What is that?" "I don't know, I think there's a spin-off series in this." "This is a Doctor Who Confidential team skulking in the corner." "Recording our every move." "MAN:" "B camera." "Action." "SOLDIER:" "Hold it, lads." "Steady!" "(GUNS COCKING)" "YVONNE:" "Oh!" "Oh, how marvellous!" "Oh, very good." "Superb." "Happy day." "Um, thanks." "Nice to meet you." " I'm the Doctor." " Oh, I should say." "Hooray!" " You've heard of me, then?" " Well, of course we have." "And I have to say, if it wasn't for you, none of us would be here..." "The Doctor and the Tardis!" "Tracy-Ann's final moments on Doctor Who." " This is it." " And action." "You will not pass." "You will not pass." "I did my duty." "For Queen and Country." "You will not pass." "You will not pass." "I did my duty, Queen and Country." "I did my duty." "I did my duty." "Oh God, I did my duty." " Thank you, that's a goodbye on Tracy-Ann." " Thank you." "My soulmate." " Bye-bye." " Come and give it to me." "Wednesday, the 29th of March." "We've got three days filming left on series two and last night we had the press launch." "We showed New Earth to the ladies and gentlemen of Her Majesty's press down at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff." "A bit bleary-eyed this morning as a result of that." "It was quite a long night." "And, you know, lots of nervous energy." "Showing your homework to everybody." "But there was a good vibe." "I think people seemed very enthused by it." "It was exciting, actually." "It was good." "And it's nice to feel that we're suddenly getting it out there, after all these months it's about to be on the telly." "And, hopefully, all this hard work will have paid off." "Aside from all that, I can't quite believe that we're nearly done." "Nine months really has flown by." "I have really enjoyed myself." "And I will miss it, actually." "For three months." "Until it all starts again of course." "And I'll miss Bill." "Doing all that press with her last night... just, you know, kind of holding each other's hand through all the madness." "I'll miss having her around." "I really will." "This is very much now the final furlong." "This is Habitation 3." "This is the Ood." "So this is the command centre of Sanctuary Base 6." "And action." "(ALARM BLARING)" "Oh, my God, you meant it." " People!" "Look at that, real people." " That's us." "Hurray!" "Yeah, definitely real." "My name's Rose, Rose Tyler, and this is the Doctor." "Come on, we're in the middle of an alert." "Danny, strap up, the quake's coming in." "Impact in 30 seconds." "Sorry, you two, whoever you are, just hold on." "Tight." " Hold on to what?" " Anything, I don't care, just hold on." "And impact!" "Oh, well." "That wasn't so bad..." "This is Jefferson..." "Jefferson just..." "He was like..." " TENNANT:" "Did you just openly laugh?" " I did." "I just heard a bark from you." "I was trying so hard." "I'll leave you to it, then." " I know, I know." " Jefferson gains a little quiff by the end of the..." "And what was that with you getting very..." " Hey." " PIPER:" "Check you out." "Why aye."