"(DOCTOR WHO THEME)" "WOMAN:" "Take one." "Mine." "Open the door!" "We've been filming for a couple of weeks already on the new series of Doctor Who." "We're on the Christmas special at the moment." "We start the series proper next week." "So we're filming the big finale scenes today in the Racnoss' flood chamber." "Sarah Parish has arrived and has just spent three and a bit hours in prosthetic make-up, but is looking sensational." "Don Gilet and Catherine Tate are also here, and we're about to start filming any second." "So it's kind of like we've never been away, really, like we're just back into the routine again." "Without Billie, of course, which is very sad." "I do miss her, and..." "Yeah, she was my pal, really, day-to-day, so it's weird without her." "Freema starts this week, of course, playing Martha." "So we'll see how she gets on." "I think she's going to be glorious." "And that's it, really." "We're back at it." "The web star descends!" "TENNANT:" "Hi." "Look, it's TV's own Catherine Tate." " There you go." " Yeah!" " How are you doing?" " Very well, thank you." " So you're nearly finished with us now." " I'm nearly finished, yes." "How's it been?" "It's been awful." " Yeah, yeah." "From start to finish?" " From start to finish." "As you know, I've often been found in my trailer." "Weeping." "Weeping, shouting, "Where did it all go wrong?"" "True." " Where did it all go wrong?" " I think..." " It was all looking so good there." " Yeah, I know." "I think it was the first day filming in London." " Mmm-hmm." " Or was it the dinner where we met?" " It was probably..." "Yeah." " Probably that." "Certainly, there were bad signs then." " Yeah." " Yeah." "But you've put a brave face on it." "We've all appreciated that." "So professional, if nothing else." " Yeah, well, semi..." " Semi-professional, I suppose." "And the wedding dress?" "Every little girl's dream, or..." " Every little girl's dream." " Yeah?" " Of course it is." " Annoying, no?" "It's stemmed any idea that I'd ever get married or wear one." " This is just..." " There you go." " And the shoes!" " And the shoes." " Not your actual costume shoes there." " Not my actual costume shoes, no." "You've moaned quite a lot about the shoes." " To be fair, I did." "Yeah." " Yeah." "The question every morning was, "Will you see my shoes?"" "It's just a holiday now." "Yeah, yeah, sorry." " It's not your fault." " Oh, that's a change." "There will be, probably, some debate in fan circles, if I may use that slightly scary term, as to whether Donna is a bona fide companion or not." " Yeah, I suppose there will." " What would your view on that be?" "Not that it matters." "My view would be she most certainly is, especially if that's a better place at the Ohio conventions." "That gets you a better suite." "If that gives me greater status within the Doctor Who hierarchy..." " Yeah." "...she's most definitely a companion." "On the other hand, if it's perhaps more kooky for her maybe not to be," " I'll go for that one." " Yeah." " Basically, let me put it like this." " Yeah?" "What I'm telling people is I'm the new assistant." " Sure." "Sure, yeah." " Okay?" "So that's definitely what she is." "No, I'm a rebound assistant for you." " I'm a rebound relationship." " You are a bit." "You're somebody I met in a smelly club full of..." "And I, thankfully, have the presence of mind to not pursue the dreadful outcome that could've happened if I stayed." "But I'd say..." "Obviously, I'm gunning for the big conventions." "So I'm gunning that she is an assistant." "Sure." "So you might not make it to Poole." "I'm gunning for a spin-off series 30 years down the line." "Nice." "Well, it's happened." "It's happening as we speak." " You could be number two." " There we go." " Very good." " Me and the wedding dress." "Yeah." "Well, you've got more than one wedding dress, right?" "I've got about six, in various states of..." " Six seems a lot." " Six." "It does seem a lot." "Are we wasting our budget on you, slightly?" "We've got another 13 episodes to do after this." "Yeah, it's true, but that's why you've got the account with Primark for the rest" " and for Martha's clothes." " Yeah." "Yeah, Martha's looking lovely in stuff that, whatever..." "For the rest of the season." "Well, she is actually going to be in quite a lot of net, I think." " We'll just use it over." " Some recycled..." "She's getting married in most of the episodes." "She's getting married in most of the episodes, yeah." "Well, Catherine, it's been lovely to have you." "Thank you." "It's been my pleasure to be here." "Thank you for visiting us briefly and making the Christmas special quite so special." " Quite so special." " Do you see what I did there?" " I saw what you did." " Thank you very much." "Hey, look." "It's TV's Sarah Parish, dressed as Empress of the Racnoss." "That's right, I am Empress of the Racnoss." " Half-human, half-spider." " Yeah." "How are the teeth feeling?" "Well, they're quite tricky, actually." "It's a little Dick Emery." "What, like the vicar?" " Just slightly reminiscent." " "I say!"" "They are actually very..." "Ow!" "Very uncomfortable." "I'll tell you what." "If you talk too quickly, they stab, 'cause they're so jutty forward." "They stab the inside of your mouth here." " Can you see?" " Can I get an extreme close-up of that?" " (GROANS) I've got a lot of..." " Oh, I can see little holes, yeah." " Ooh, that looks nasty." " It is nasty, and also, this isn't easy." "No." "Let's just watch that for a second 'cause that's interesting in itself." "I have to take my eyes out every couple of hours, otherwise they stick to my actual eyes." "I can't get them out." "Yeah." "Have you ever worn a contact lens before?" " Never." " How are you liking it?" "I don't mind it, actually." "These are quite interesting 'cause it looks like they're all black, but in actual fact there's a little, tiny hole in the middle." "At arms!" "It's a lovely look all-round." "Lovely teeth, as well." " I know." " Your mother will be so proud." "Thelma's going to love it." " Look, it's Catherine's stunt-double." " Oh, right." " Hello." " Hello." "I recognise you." "We haven't done anything together, have we?" " I can't actually tell." " Oh, of course, yeah." "(ALL LAUGHING)" "You remember me, don't you?" "I was in Cutting It." "I think you must have, Sarah... (ALL TALKING AT ONCE)" "This is great." "...flatter?" " Rather than all this..." " Mmm." "Lovely." " There we are." " Can you see that now?" " Lovely." " Does the other one come out?" " What do you think?" "No." "There's actually two lenses." "The first one is see-through and it blocks the black one." " Ooh!" " But that never comes out." "She has to have a right root-around for that one." " Nice." " Don't get into that one." "Here we go." " There it is." " That looks revolting." " Actually, it's a little off." " And there I am." "PARISH:" "I had to go to Millennium, where they do all the monsters for Doctor Who." "And they had to do an entire cast of my body and all over my head." "All at once or in separate phases?" "No, they did my head first and then they did my body." "Right." "Wow!" "That's quite intimate." " I mean, for a three-day job..." " Yeah." "...a lot of attention has gone onto me and I quite like that." "Yeah, sure." "How long does the make-up take to do?" " Three hours." " Are you bored of that?" "Well, no, not yet." "Because I'm only here for three days, it's actually still quite a novelty, and the people from Millennium are such a laugh that they make it fun." " Sure, sure." " They make it fun." "I think if I was doing this for a month, yeah, I probably would've lost my sense of humour within the last hour." "TENNANT:" "And nobody would blame you." "Let's be honest." "But you seem to be coping with the pain better today." "Aren't I?" "Did you see me yesterday?" "TENNANT:" "By the end of yesterday, I couldn't look at you." " It was too grisly." " I was in a lot of pain yesterday." " Thanks, Sarah." " It's a pleasure." "I'll just get on with my hot water and lemon." "Yeah." "Nice." "Dick Emery."