02x01 - New New Doctor

[bunniefuu]

Watch out,
there's a new Doc on the block.

Did you miss me?

He might look and 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 .

Hello... Hello!

It's summer , the Dr 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!

THEY LAUGH

She's just a face full of hair!

Cut!

We were supposed to be here
earlier in the summer

and various schedule things
meant we were late.

So it's more wintry than intended
but once the computer people
have fiddled with it,

it's going to look extraordinary...
I'm told.

I wanted a bit of spectacle,
a bit of size and colour.

New New York in episode one
has a retro 's feel

as well as being a bit sci-fi

because it's 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.

♪ I know a place

♪ Where the sun hits the sky. ♪

Apple grass. Apple grass.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm the Doctor. Still got it.

I'm the Doctor!

I'm the new boy so you do feel
there's a lot to live up to now.

It's exciting to know
he's going to step onto the set.

Too hot!

..And surprise us.
Oh, baby, I'm b*ating out a samba!

It's good fun to be on set
and we're having a laugh.

I think there's a huge scale
to the series.

I think our stories
are bigger this year.

Expectations are higher.
You have to match or better
what you've done before.

We knew we set a benchmark.
We had to at least meet it,

if not exceed it for people
to say, "OK, it's still working.

"They can do it more than once."

Action!

THEY SCREAM

Cut!

We're making a show about someone who
travels through time in a police box.

It's 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?

What you bring to it is yourself
and that happens for free,

you don't have any choice.

He's a 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 more verbal.

Strictly speaking,
it's the th New York.

He's got very big, lengthy speeches.
Lots of runs of words.

That makes it New New New
New New New New New New New
New New New New New York.

He's chaotic.

IT SCREAMS

'He's very energetic.'

Could've had someone's eye out!

There are flashes of darkness
to the character.

What's the turnover? Hm?

Thousand a day?

A thousand the next?

How many thousand
for how many years?!

HOW MANY?!

And so there's a lot of lulling
an audience into him being a lovely,
interesting, fascinating character

and 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 the disease get out.

There are million people
in that city at risk.

Now turn that off!

Not if it gets me out!

All right, fine.
I'll have to stop you lot as well.

Beyond that, it's an evolving thing.
But ultimately the script is what
you've always got to go on.

If I suddenly decided I want
to play it with a limp,

and the script had me running down
corridors, that's not going to work.

All the scripts in series two
bring their own new challenge.

Every scene in every episode
takes months of planning
and dozens of personnel

to make Dr Who reach new heights.

We're doing a sequence
in the lift shaft in the hospital
on New New Earth.

Where the Doctor and Rose
first arrive in the building,
walk into the lifts...

Ward , thanks!

..And this postmodern disinfection
sequence happens...

Hold on!

Too late, I'm going up.

There's another lift.

..Which the Doctor knows 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 Billy and David
have to get soaking wet,

covered in talc, and blown dry
several times.

Whistle in the shower, go on!

The first time, it was great
because the water was warm

but with every take,
it's getting colder and colder

as they refill the t*nk in a hurry.

Cut!

We've cut. Thank you.

I didn't hear what you were saying.

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 expected!

♪ Cos you're filthy

♪ Ooh, and I'm gorgeous

♪ Cos you're filthy. ♪

Action!

THEY SCREAM

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.

THEY SCREAM

We've fallen off!

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.

I...I...I'm drying out.

Oh...oh, sweet heavens,
moisturise me!

Moisturise me!

I...am...too...young!

I'm very aware again there will be
some younger audience still saying,

"That's not my Doctor"
and, "He's a different man".

I saw...you got ripped apart.

Moisturise me, moisturise 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 your... Ask not.

I always wanted a story
with body swapping,
and the Doctor to be funny.

Open it!
Not until you get out of her.

We need the Doctor.

I order you to leave her!

I always thought you don't have
to impersonate her,

you have to be a Rose version
of Cassandra and a Doctor version
of Cassandra,

in that their essence
is still in there.

No matter how difficult the
situation, there is no need to shout!

And a chance for Rose to be funny.

Curves...

Ho-ho, baby!

It's like living inside
a bouncy castle!

Billy and David both do it
brilliantly.

They took enough
of Cassandra's traits,

inspired by the performance
Zoe Wanamaker had already
given to Cassandra.

Oo!

The body language and voice changes.

Oh my God.

I'm a chav!

Billy's whole expression changes...

Lady k*ller...

..And she becomes this pouting,
flirtatious, terrifying creature.

Who are you?

The last human.

Cassandra?!
Wake up and smell the perfume.

Billy does it so brilliantly
for quite a long time

so I don't think you're then
expecting that the Doctor
will get possessed too.

THEY GROAN

My head.

It's an homage to Ms Wanamaker.
I think she'll be proud.

Cassandra?

Goodness me, I'm a man! Young!

I hope she will! She'll probably
m*rder me the next time she sees me!

So many parts...I hardly used.

It also ups the stakes.
The episode, in dramatic terms,
is quite important

that she can do this
and that she refuses to die.

I can't Adam and Eve it.

Wh-wh-what's with the voice?

Oh I don't know.
Just larking about. New Earth.

You, me.

With the kiss between
the Cassandra Rose and the Doctor,

any lip-to-lip contact
with the Doctor gets exaggerated

and people say, "The programme's
changed! It's the death of Dr Who!"

I just sat there thinking,
"Well if I'd been trapped in a frame
as Cassandra has,

if I suddenly got a very sexy body
with Rose Tyler,

I'd want to snog someone.
And she can't bear the Doctor,
he k*lled 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 look set to be bigger
and better than ever.

♪ It's a new dawn
It's a new day... ♪

Are we in Scotland?!

Och, aye!

No, don't do that.

They're making noises at me!
Affirmative.

What did I say?!

Get out!

The correct form of address
is Your Majesty!

If we can make this minutes good,
then you're on a winner.

HE SCREAMS

The last Doctor was possibly
the greatest Doctor

that we'd ever seen.

I'm sorry.

This guy, David, he's just...
he's great, man.

I think we may have a new winner.

♪ It's a new dawn, it's a new day

♪ It's a new life for me. ♪

b*ll*ts can't stop it!