Season 4 Episode 1 Spoilers
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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.
Donna and The Doctor will also be travelling through time for an encounter with the legendary murder mystery novelist, Agatha Christie, and taking a trip to Pompeii.
Guest stars in the new series include Felicity Kendal, Fenella Woolgar, Tim McInnerny, Peter Capaldi, Phil Davis and Tracey Childs.
Freema Agyeman who has played Martha Jones, The Doctor's companion throughout the critically-acclaimed third series, will return to the show to join The Doctor and Donna mid-series.
David Tennant will play The Doctor and Catherine Tate will play his new companion, Donna.
The fourth series of Doctor Who is now in production and will hit BBC One in Spring 2008.
The producer is Phil Collinson; Executive producers are Head of Drama, BBC Wales, Julie Gardner, and Russell T Davies.
Doctor Who is filmed in Cardiff.
and the master went beyond this remember by firstly stealing another life and then also the promise of an extra set of regenerations in the Five Doctors so it possible to go beyond the 12 and perhaps now the Time Lords are no more then so are the rules?
1 Jul 08 at 9:53 am
Sorry, but your mum is wrong...
12 regens making 13 Doctors... (They showed the 13th in a story called trial of a Time Lord, when the 13th went bad...)
5 Jun 08 at 10:09 am
It's all very well saying 'who will play the Doctor after David Tennant', but how do we get around the fact that he's the tenth Doctor and Time Lords only regenerate 10 times? A while ago, someone did tell me it was twelve times because they read it on Wikipedia, but Wikipedia can be edited by anyone and I have this knowledge from my mum who can recite all ten Doctors in order!
My theory is that when he used the watch or whatever it was to rewrite his biology to hide from The Family of Blood, it really did change his biology so he is the 10th Doctor and the first. But if not, how else do you get around this? After David Tennant, the Doctor is due to die.
21 Apr 08 at 3:00 pm
just has been released: http://www.btarena.org/tv/doctor-who-season-4-episode-1
5 Apr 08 at 9:08 pm
Robert carleye has been comfirmed to be the doctor by the bbc ;]
3 Apr 08 at 8:59 pm
Ok some people are going to hate me for saying this but James Nesbitt, he just doesn't seem to match the Doctor's personality. Plus, he gets asked to do lots of other jobs so if he becomes the Doctor we could have another Christopher Eccleston on our hands, he'll only stay on for 1 year or maybe even less, what we need is someone fresh and new, someone who hardly anyone has ever heard of, and most likely to have been a Doctor Who fan as a child because that means they're subconcious has taken in the Doctor's personality so we don't end up with Collin Baker again (no offence to Collin Baker fans) Collin Baker was unique in his own way but he was also confusing and not many people liked him. What we need is someone like Sylvester McCoy or Tom Baker, both captured the Doctor's personality magnificently and because they were fresh and new on television they didn't get asked to do many jobs so they stayed on for a satisfactory amount of time, anyone agree with me?
10 Mar 08 at 7:26 pm
Please can you give us an exact date?
greetings slitence
18 Feb 08 at 7:33 pm
i think james nesbit would be awseome also rumored to play the time lord though is the actoror who plays snape in harry potter, john simm and daniel radcliffe but he would just be shit! by the way wat do we think of billie piper coming back yippy
5 Dec 07 at 2:35 pm
james nesbit - i don't think anyone for definate will be playing doctor who after david tennant. he is confirmed for series 4 and the three specials in 2009. the fifth series in 2010 - he doesn't know if he wants to do it yet.
i want him to stay forever!!!!
27 Nov 07 at 6:40 pm
I think I may like this new series
16 Oct 07 at 9:12 pm
James Nesbit is supposed to be the new doctor (after david tennant)
Is that true??
16 Oct 07 at 7:41 pm
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