Spoiler Alert - Season 4 Press Release! Spoiler Alert!

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Only read this if you want to know information about the new series direct from RTD.

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The official Doctor Who website has revealed further information about the fourth series of Doctor Who, which has recently entered production. They have announced that in addition to the previously-confirmed return of the Ood, one episode of the fourth series will feature the Doctor and new companion Donna Noble, played by Catherine Tate, encountering well-known thriller writer Agatha Christie.

Christie will be played by Fenella Woolgar, who recently appeared in Doctor Who writer Steven Moffat's BBC One drama serial Jekyll, as Min, one half of the show's lesbian private detective pairing. Also announced is the casting of Felicity Kendall, very well known in the UK for her leading role in the 1970s sitcom The Good Life. Kendall will be playing Lady Clemency Eddison. It has also been announced that Tim McInnerny (Blackadder, Notting Hill) will guest-star in an episode later in the series.

Matthew Prichard, Agatha Christie's grandson, is quoted as saying: "As far as I know my grandmother, never saw Doctor Who, but I am sure she would have been intrigued, excited and above all flattered by all this attention in 2007." Showrunner Russell T Davies adds that: "Visiting Agatha Christie has been on my wish-list for ages now, and for the Doctor, it's a real meeting of minds. Viewers can expect many more ambitious storylines and a whole host of guest stars in 2008."

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According to the press information about Donna: "When she returns in the new series, viewers will see her track down the Time Lord (David Tennant) during an alien emergency in modern-day London."

[Dave]

Hmmm... Star Trek: TNG had Newton, Einstein and Hawking... Now Doctor Who gives us Dickens, Shakespear.... Christie. Somehow, I don't think she is in the same league as those. Who will it be next Season? Jackie Collins? Catherine Cookson? JK Rowling? Maybe L Ron Hubbard?

[Shrek Baby]

I would love to see HG Wells but that might be a bit twee!

[Ice fyre]

Sorry to be a saddo here but they've already done HG wells (Sylvester McCoy I think). I just saw on U tube the Catherene Tate doctor who sketch, think I need my head looked at but I'm coming round to the idea a bit.

[Harpo]

How about Enid Blyton or Beatrix Potter?

[Shrek Baby]

Beatrix Potter

The Doctor could be pursued by giant rabbits!

[Harleyquin]

being pursued by killer wabbits eh... I have only ONE question....

"What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

[Briareus Delta]

Do you mean an African or European swallow?

[Tillane]

Well...I don't know.

*waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh*

[The Ace]

Maybe they could do Catherine Cookson. And have her murdered in a really grotesque way, PLEASE!!!

[PTeppic]

I'm wondering if the Agatha Christie plot will relate to her mysterious disappearance for ten days in December 1926?


Oh, and.... OMG: not another large-scale, public, "aliens attacking London" plot! Boring!

(And I bet the re-use of the Ood is just to re-use the masks to cut costs...)

[Briareus Delta]

[quote=PTeppic;899472] Oh, and.... OMG: not another large-scale, public, "aliens attacking London" plot! Boring! quote]

Agreed. Oh dear. The series really needs something different to perk it up, instead of constantly rehashing the same old ideas.

[PTeppic]

I don't mind the repetition of large scale attack: it's more the fact it's supposed to be largely "current" and "real" England, yet we've had how many alien attacks???

[Ice fyre]

Wouldnt mind so much but they keep hitting the reset switch!

Lets have cosequences, lets have an alien ambasador, LET SOMETHING HAPPEN!!!!!

Lets do first contact, offical first contact not a coverd up invasion how it affects people, knowing that they are not alone.

AAAAAAAAAnnnndddd Breathe young man!