"Scene 228, take 1, A camera, mark." "And action!" "How did this get by the Doctor?" "It's the series finale and the Doctor is late for a rather important wedding." "Okay, Doctor." "Did I surprise you this time?" "Uh, yeah." "Completely astonished." "And we follow Matt and Karen as they travel across the pond to take a bite out of the Big Apple." "We're in NYC." "NYC, baby." "New York City." "Doctor Who in America!" "America is a seriously competitive TV market." "The team will need to promote the show heavily if the new Doctor is to make a touchdown in the US of A." "So we're going to get in a cab for doing some work now, I think." "And we're actually going to a screening where people have been camping out." "Can you believe that?" "That's exciting, isn't it?" "Down in the East Village they're getting ready to see the new Doctor in action." "We announced it a couple of weeks ago, and it's amazing how many people have been calling, how many people have been coming in asking about it." "People would call and say," ""Hey, I want to come down from three states away." ""What time do I have to line up?" ""Can I line up the night before?"" "We got here at 9:00 this morning and 20 people were already waiting outside." "The line stretched from Second Avenue all way down to Third Avenue." "It was pretty impressive." "I haven't seen an event like this before." "So, it's exciting stuff." "We've been really surprised, actually," "I knew obviously that there was a fan base here, but there was literally, I think about 1,000 people outside the cinema." "And some of them had been there for like 12 hours just to get a chance to go and see the first episode tonight." "So, I was really surprised, but it's fantastic that it's so well received here." "For me, I just want to see if Matt Smith can live up to David Tennant." "I'm excited about seeing Matt Smith and Karen Gillan." "Ah!" "New York." "I would love to live here for a bit." "But we're coming back to Cardiff to film the next episode." "Or the next series of Doctor Who." "And that's just the coolest." "Yeah, and we found out what the Christmas special was about today," " which was really exciting." " Mmm." "Yeah, but New York is amazing." "And it's just exciting to bring this show here, because it's brilliant and we've got a brilliant first episode." "And we want people to get into it, like they should." "Look, man." "Look at those grates and stuff, the fire..." "I just look back to that day on the beach," " our very first day of filming." " I know, wow." "And look where we are now." "And all of this stuff that's happened in between..." "And it..." "It seemed impossible, really, didn't it?" "Yeah, it felt like it would never actually, sort of, come to this, if you know what I mean." "# Has it come this" "# Oh, oh, oh, oh #" "# Original pirate material, you're listening to the Streets #" "You know the Streets." "Ladies and gentlemen, I need you back behind the line, please." "That's my first head, yeah, yeah." "We gotta go." "We gotta go." "We'll see you inside." "Demand has been so great that dozens of people have turned up with just standby tickets, and their fingers crossed." "Yes!" "No!" "What?" "The three people in front of us were the last ones to get official tickets." "We are the first ones with standby tickets." "So we're gonna have our dreams crushed." "And we're all the way from Connecticut." "Yeah, we came all the way from Connecticut." "To see David Tennant's regeneration." "Almost." "I'll cry harder if I don't get in here than I did when David Tennant left." "We'll think of The End of Time and then we'll cry." "Hi, Carla." "How do you do?" "Pleasure to meet you." "Wow, my mum's going to be so thrilled I'm on GMTV." "Literally, that's..." " That'll say you made it." " That's really brilliant for my mum." "He was brilliant, actually, a real character, and so much energy about him, and you can see just how enthusiastic he is about playing this role and what a dream role this is for him to have landed." "So I think he's definitely one to watch out for." "The screening about to start, the cinema fills up." "But not quite." " Yes!" " Thank God!" "I wanted to kiss that man!" "He scared the hell out of me." "He scared the living hell out of me 'cause he was like..." "Then he was like, "You're in. " And we were like..." "You guys ready for some Doctor Who?" "When I say "Doctor", you say "Who"." " Doctor." "Who!" "I always imagined that really important people like Matt and Karen and their hangers-on like me got whisked away to exciting places, out of the sight of the..." "I imagined there was caviar and serving girls." "There was just a tiny stretch of corridor with four deck chairs and no air-conditioning or windows." "But then again, we were out to the most exciting screening." "To hear it with an excited, expressive bunch of Americans whooping and cheering their way through it, you know, that was good." "I could do that again." "I can do his job." "There you are!" "There you are!" "The Doctor Who crew are out on location." "And action!" "It's a big day for everyone involved." "And for Amy Pond, perhaps her biggest yet." "Today we are filming Amy's wedding scene, and we're in a place called Miskin Manor, just north of Cardiff." "Do you know, when I first put on the wedding dress, I found it very bizarre, because, you know, it's kind of..." "It's quite a major thing in a woman's life." "So that was quite weird, putting it on." "And then I walked in here, and there's loads of SAs and there's this whole wedding scene." "And it just..." "It looks really cool." "Yeah, it's interesting." "It's really weird, because it's meant to be mine and Amy's wedding." "I don't really know anyone there." "So it's like, kind of, gate-crashing someone else's wedding and sitting on the top table, so that's a bit strange." "But, yeah, it's a lot of fun in there." "No real alcohol is being drunk, though, 'cause we're very professional." "Okay, then." "Wedding time." "Okay, here we go, then." "212, take one, A camera, mark." "B camera, GT." "Well, you can pour some of the fizzy water." "Don't be shy." "Here we go, then." "And action." "Ladies and gentlemen." "Ladies and gentlemen." "The father of the bride, Augustus Pond!" "There may be loads of people at the wedding, but it's still short of one guest." "Sorry, everyone." "The one thing that doesn't exist when the universe comes back is the Doctor, because he was at the heart of the explosion." "The Doctor saves himself by being the devious old man that he always is." "He plants a memory in Amy's mind." "You'll dream about that box." "He'll never leave you." "Big and little at the same time." "Brand-new and ancient and the bluest blue ever." "And he knows in his devious, clever way, that one sentence she's going to hear on that important day is..." "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." "And of course, that is the Tardis." "It's old, it's borrowed, it's new and it's blue." "He needs that memory to come back spontaneously." "And with a little unasked-for help from River Song, he gets it." " What is it?" " It's a book." "It's blank." " It's a present." " But why?" "Well, you know the old saying." "The old wedding... thing." "Huh?" "Amy." "It's the story of how Amy is changed by the Doctor..." "Ready now." "She's the little girl who believes that men can fall from sky, eat fish custard and fix everything." "Now then, it hardly seems unusual..." "And she's the girl who grows up to believe you should never believe in that kind of thing 'cause the..." "Cause they're liars and they don't turn up when they say they will." "And the rest of the story is the Doctor trying to make her the girl he first met again." "The girl who's capable of believing in a madman from the sky who likes fish fingers and custard." "And that's what he does." "By the end, she's capable of standing up at that wedding and actually believing all of that was real." ""Raggedy man, I remember you. "" "That's what it's all about." "I remember!" "I brought the others back." "I can bring you home, too." "Raggedy man, I remember you, and you are late for my wedding!" "As she's calling the Tardis, all this wind starts." "I wanted to start that moment in a very small way." "And so that you just... you just notice these slight things changing, and that's the moment that you realise something strange is happening." "And then the chandelier starts to move and the balloons start to go and then..." "The guests are getting blown about, their hats are flying off." "It just builds up and builds up and then the Tardis appears." "Amy?" "What is it?" "Something old, something new, something borrowed," "something blue." "He puts her back, in a way, to the heart and the spirit and the soul of the girl he first met..." "Okay, Doctor, did I surprise you this time?" "Uh, yeah." "Completely astonished." "...that he so damaged by just being a little tad late." "Right then, everyone." "I'll move my box." "You're going to need the space." "I only came for the dancing." "Okay, and playback." "I know quite often people get married in registry offices in television, and I often think, "It's probably a budget decision. "" "Um, but come on, I haven't met that many women who'd settle for that." "Frankly, they want a big wedding." "They want it proper and right and good, and who wouldn't want all their friends having a good dance around them on this great big important day?" "Uh, I like weddings." "So I wanted Amy to have a great wedding." "One of the most fun scenes we've had filming is the dancing sequence." "Matt had to do this dance, because it was written, obviously, that he's a terrible dancer and he dances like a drunk giraffe." "But Matt kind of, um..." "Kind of made up this whole routine." "And it's really funny." "It's kind of like this." "That is just how he dances." "I don't think they put it in the script that he would dance like that, it's just..." "Just the way he dances." "What a mover." "He's incredibly athletic and graceful in his own way." "Rubber-necked... and move!" "I wanted to see what happened if I wrote it in that he was dancing, and according to Amy..." "That's terrible." "You are embarrassing." "But having an absolutely brilliant time doing it." "And I think Matt took it seriously and invented his dance, which I'm sure, by the time this programme is actually being broadcast, will be the rage of Britain, in much the way that fish custard" "has taken over from any other breakfast snack." "And cut there." "Great." "Well done." "Great job." "It's not just the end of an episode, it's the end of a series." "Where next for the Doctor and his newlywed companions?" "Did you dance?" "Well, you always dance at weddings, don't you?" "You tell me." "Spoilers." "Something that we've been hearing about throughout this series is going to continue and become more significant." "We're going to learn more in the next series, which is The Silence." "The Pandorica will open and silence will fall." "Watching episode one, Prisoner Zero, tells the Doctor about the silence." "What is that?" "Who is that?" "Who are the silence and what's coming?" "Something drew the Tardis to this particular date and blew it up." "Why?" "And why now the silence?" "The whole point of the silence is next series." "Also, who is River Song?" "You're going to find out very soon now." "And I'm sorry." "But that's when everything changes." "Who is she, really?" "That's what we're going to find out next year."