Doctor Who

Sarah Lancashire, best known for roles in Coronation Street, Clocking Off and Rose & Maloney, is set to guest star in series four of the BAFTA award-winning Doctor Who, due to be seen on BBC One next year.

Sarah will guest star as Miss Foster, an enigmatic and powerful businesswoman, in episode one which reintroduces Catherine Tate as Donna Noble.

Sarah Lancashire says: "I'm absolutely thrilled to be in Doctor Who. It's a brilliant episode and I'm looking forward to taking the Time Lord on."

Award-winning actress Catherine Tate is reprising her role as Donna, the runaway bride who featured in last year's Doctor Who Christmas special.

The start of the new series will see Donna tracking down The Doctor during an alien emergency in modern-day London.

The couple are destined to experience a series of wonderful adventures throughout the new series including meeting one of Doctor Who's most popular aliens, The Ood, in a brand new episode, Planet Of The Ood.

The Doctor and his new companion Donna are set to travel back in time to the Roman Empire for the fourth series of Doctor Who, the BAFTA award-winning drama which will transmit on BBC One in spring 2008.

In one of the most ambitious episodes to date, the Doctor, played by David Tennant, and Donna (Catherine Tate) arrive in Pompeii in AD 79, on the eve of the historic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

The Time Lord and his companion are posed with an immediate dilemma – should they warn the residents of Pompeii of the forthcoming catastrophe or leave them to fend for themselves?

The Thick Of It actor Peter Capaldi guest stars as Caecillius and is joined by Quadrophenia and Rose And Maloney actor Phil Davis who stars as Lucius. Further guest stars include Howard's Way and Born And Bred actress Tracey Childs who plays Metella.

The filming of the episode took place at Cinecitta studios in Rome, which the Doctor Who team expertly transformed into Pompeii for a week of filming in September of this year.

Doctor Who series four filming is underway with Catherine Tate joining the BAFTA award-winning BBC One drama series as The Doctor's brand new companion, Donna Noble.

Award-winning actress Tate is reprising her role as Donna, the runaway bride who featured in last year's Doctor Who Christmas special.

The start of the new series will see Donna tracking down the Time Lord during an alien emergency in modern-day London.

The couple are destined to experience a series of wonderful adventures throughout the new series including meeting one of Doctor Who's most popular aliens, The Ood, in a brand new episode, Planet Of The Ood.

Donna and The Doctor – David Tennant – will also be travelling through time for an encounter with the legendary murder mystery novelist, Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie will be played by Jekyll star Fenella Woolgar and The Good Life actress Felicity Kendal will star as Lady Clemency Eddison.

Blackadder and Notting Hill actor Tim McInnerny will also guest star later in the series.

The BBC has announced that Australian singer and actress Kylie Minogue will be starring in a major lead role in this year's Christmas special of Doctor Who.

Kylie will join David Tennant for "Voyage of the Damned" which is being touted by executive producer Russell T Davies as the most ambitious Christmas episode yet.

Doctor Who is going to sport a sexy Aga Blonksa giving a stoney performance in an upcoming episode. The bombshell actress is to re-enact such sensual roles as are seen played out in cathedrals and castles throughout europe, as she plays the role of a stone angel that the lucky Doctor encounters in a haunted house.

But will this stone vixen actually be good news for the Doctor?

Actress Aga Blonksa spent three hours having a special stone angel suit put on her by Millenium FX special effects studio. This could be the first time in TV history that a stoney performance merits a good review by the critics!

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Doctor Who reveals what's behind closed (Tardis) doors on The Graham Norton Show

The Graham Norton Show, 10.00pm, Thursday 29 March 2007, BBC Two

Graham Norton talks to David "Doctor Who" Tennant about his behind-the-scenes exploits with fellow time traveller John Barrowman as the iconic BBC series is set to return for a new series this weekend.

"We get very competitive about farting in the tardis..." David jokes on BBC Two's Graham Norton Show.

"...farting before performing is a kind of exorcism. John feels the same way ... it's our Glasgow heritage."

But he says new co-star Freema Agyeman, who joins the Doctor as assistant Martha Jones, was less than impressed: "Freema really didn't like it, which spurred us on."

"Seriously though, it's the best job in the world, I'm having a ball. It's a big responsibility, people are very enthusiastic about it, and that can be a bit of an undertaking."

And as for the rumoured Doctor nuptials, David says: "It's very difficult to answer – he doesn't not get married."

The producer of Doctor Who, Phil Collinson, has let us in on the vibe for the up-coming new series of the popular tv show. And the vibe is ultimately monster-crazy, with new, scary and different monsters to be seen including the rhinoceros-esque Judoon, the blood-sucking Plasmavores and of course it wouldn't be Doctor Who without the Daleks.

The first episode will air on Saturday 31st March, BBC One.

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From the sounds of it, it's just a matter of time before an engagement between Billie Piper (actress on Dr Who) and Laurence Fox is announced...

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Freema Agyeman who plays Martha Jones, stripped to her underwear for an underwater scene in Doctor Who, but the footage will not be appearing on the episode, due to it being deemed "inappropriate".

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Billie Piper, the vixen who co-starred in Doctor Who, was reportedly in tears while she watched the Christmas Special episode of the show. This was the first episode filmed after Piper left the show last summer.

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Rumors are flying that James Statham has been offered the role of Doctor who to replace David Tennant.

He doesn't look right for the role to me... what do you think??

I was reading in The sun that David Tennant is supposedly quitting Doctor Who next year but BBC are saying it's not true and he's filming the third series but nothing is certain for a fourth season yet... I'm still sad that Billie Piper is leaving though, she's awesome