"Watch out, there's a new Doc on the block." "Did you miss me'?" "He might look different, he might sound different..." "Fantastic." "...but when it comes to time travel, he's the same old Doctor." " You're so different." " New new doctor." "It's a Doctor's life for David Tennant and he's the perfect 10." " Hello." " Hello." "It's summer 2005, and the Doctor Who team are battling with the elements to film the opening scene of the brand-new series." "We're arriving on New Earth, which is the Gower Peninsula near Swansea, and it's blowing a gale." "Action." " What's the city called'?" " New New York." "Come on." "Just a face full of hair!" "Cut." "We were supposed to be here slightly earlier in the summer and various shooting schedule things meant that we're a bit late." "So it's a little bit more wintry than intended but once the computer people have fiddled about with it, it's going to look extraordinary, I'm told." "I wanted a bit of spectacle, a bit of size and color." "New New York in episode 1 has a retro 1930s feel to it, as well as being a bit sci-fi 'cause it is the first time we're going to an alien planet." "It's the first time David Tennant's Doctor has taken Rose Tyler anywhere." "So, I'm sure he's going out to impress her." " Apple grass." " Apple grass." "Yeah, yeah." "I'm the Doctor." "Still got it." "I'm the Doctor." "I'm the new boy, you know, so you do feel like there's an awful lot to live up to now." "It's really exciting to know that he's going to step onto the set." "Two hearts." "And surprise us." "Oh, baby, I'm beating out a samba." "It's good fun to be on set with them all." "We're having a laugh." "I think there's a huge scale to this series." "I think our stories are bigger this year." "Expectations are higher because you have to match or better what you've done before." "We knew we'd set a benchmark, we had to at least meet it, if not exceed it for people to say, "Okay, yeah, it's still working." ""They can do it more than once."" "Action." "Cut." "We are making a show about somebody who travels through time in a police box." "It's a bit like a fairground ride." "It's great fun." "So it would be a shame not to enjoy that." "So just how different will this new Doctor be to his past incarnation?" "Obviously, what you bring to it is yourself and that happens for free, you don't have any choice about that." "He's a very different man because he's being played by a different man." "And David brings a completely different energy to it." " So where are we going'?" " Further than we've ever gone before." "I think he's probably a more verbal Doctor." "Strictly speaking, it's the fifteenth New York since the original." "He's got very big lengthy speeches, lots of runs of words." "So that makes it" "New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York." "He's quite chaotic... and he's very energetic." "Could have someone's eye out with that." "There are flashes of darkness to the character." "What's the turnover, hmm?" "Thousand a day'?" "Thousand the next'?" "Thousand the next'?" "How many thousand'?" "For how many years'?" "How many'?" "And so there's a lot of kind of lulling an audience into him being a lovely kind of interesting, fascinating character." "And then you absolutely see what the moral line is." "I'm the Doctor." "If you don't like it, if you want to take it to a higher authority, there isn't one." "It stops with me." "He has to be a good guy, he has to be heroic." "He has to be... morally impregnable." "We can't let a single particle of disease get out." "There is 10 million people in that city, they'd all be at risk." "Now turn that off!" "Not if it gets me out." "All right, fine." "So I have to stop you lot as well." "And beyond that, it's a kind of evolving thing." "But ultimately the script is always what you've got to go on." "If I suddenly decided I want to play it with a limp and the script had me running up and down corridors, then that's not going to work." "AH the scripts in series two bring their own new challenge." "But as always, every scene in every episode takes months of planning, and dozens of personnel to make Doctor Who reach new heights." "We're doing a sequence in the lift shaft in the hospital on New New Earth." "There's the moment where the Doctor and Rose first arrive in the building, walk into the lifts..." "Ward 26, thanks." "...and this post-modern disinfection sequence happens." "Hold on!" "Hold on!" " Oh, too late." "I'm going up." " All right, there's another lift." "Which, of course, the Doctor knows all about and Rose doesn't." " Watch out for the disinfectant." " For the what'?" "The disinfectant." " The what'?" " The dis..." "Oh, you'll find out." "It means that both Billie and David have to get soaking wet, covered in talc and blown dry several times." "You're whistling in the shower..." "The first time we did it, it was great, the water was all warm and lovely." "But with every successive take it's getting colder and colder as they refill the tank in a hurry." "MANI Cut!" " Cut." " Thank you." " I couldn't hear what you were saying, James." " it's all right, love, it was fine." "It's quite a silly thing to do, really, to stand in your clothes and get soaking." "It was a lot wetter than I was expecting." "Action!" "The mind of Russell T Davies is a very strange and curious place." "And it conjures up these extraordinary scenarios which we get the great joy of acting out." " We're falling off!" " Cut." "It's a hoot." "Amidst all the fun on New Earth, there's the return of one old face..." "Peek-a-boo!" "...to keep the Doctor and Rose on their toes." "I thought it would be a good idea to have a recurring villain who everyone had enjoyed last year." "Ah!" "I'm drying out." "Oh, sweet heavens." "Moisturize me, moisturize me!" "I am too young!" "I was very aware that again, there will be some younger audience still sitting there saying," ""That's not my Doctor," and, "He's a different man."" "I saw it." "You got ripped apart" "Moisturize me, moisturize me." "So there's just a bit of continuity, just to smooth it over." "That piece of skin was taken from the front of my body, this piece is the back." "Right, so you're talking out of your..." " Ask not!" "I also wanted to do a story with the body swapping, it's a chance for the Doctor to be funny." " Open it!" " Not till you get out of her." " We need the Doctor!" " I order you to leave her!" "I always said you don't have to impersonate her, you have to be a Rose version of Cassandra, and a Doctor version of Cassandra." "Their essence is still in there." "No matter how difficult the situation, there is no need to shout." "And also a chance for the Rose to be funny." "Curves, oh, baby." "It's like living inside a bouncy castle." "Billie and David both did it brilliantly." "I mean, they took enough of Cassandra's traits, inspired by the performance that Zoe Wanamaker had already given to Cassandra." "Ooh!" "Her body language changes, the voice changes." "Oh, my God!" "I'm a chav!" "The whole expression of Billie's face changes." "Ladykiller." "And she becomes this pouting, flirtatious, terrifying female creature." "Who are you'?" "The last human." "Cassandra'?" "Wake up and smell the perfume." "Billie does it so brilliantly for quite a long time and then..." "So I don't think you're then expecting that the Doctor will get possessed, too." "Blimey, my head." "It's an homage to Ms. Wanamaker and I think she'll be proud." "Cassandra'?" "Goodness me, I'm a man." "Yum..." "I hope she will." "She'll probably murder me the next time she sees me." "So many parts and hardly used." "It also ups the stakes of the episode." "It's quite, in dramatic terms, it's quite important that she can do this and that she refuses to die." "I can't Adam and Eve it." "What's with the voice'?" "Oh, I don't know, just larking about." "New Earth." "New me." "With the kiss between the Cassandra-Rose and the Doctor, any sort of lip-to-lip contact with the Doctor gets enormously exaggerated and people say," ""Oh, the program's changed." "It's the death of Doctor Who. "" "I just sat there thinking, "Well, if I'd been trapped in a frame," ""as Cassandra has for a couple of thousand years," ""if I suddenly got a body, and a very sexy body," ""with Rose Tyler's body, I'd want to snog someone."" "And she can't bear the Doctor." "He killed her." "But nonetheless, he's there, he's handsome, she has a bit of it." "Lovely." "So the Doctor's back with a new face, a new suit and a whole new set of adventures with Rose, that looks set to be bigger and better than ever." " Are we in Scotland'?" " Och, aye." "No, don't do that." " Master." " He recognizes me!" "Affirmative." "Where's Rose'?" "Where is she'?" "The correct form of address is Your Majesty." "Never mind what came before, never mind what's coming after, make this 45 minutes good and then you're on a winner." "The last Doctor was possibly the greatest Doctor that we'd ever seen." "Hello, Sarah Jane." "This guy David, is just..." "He's great, man." "I think we may have a new winner." "Bullets can't stop it."