A great evening out at the Mayfair Hotel on Wednesday night, at the launch of Series 3 of Doctor Who. I met some great people, just a few of whom you can catch at the tail end of our Doctor Who podcast. During the Q&A session with David Tennant and Freema Agyeman, hosted by Russell T Davies, there were a few interesting and funny moments, as I’ve catalogued below. One or two mused on things that either went on in the episodes we saw, or the preview trailer for the rest of the series — so if you’re of a spoilerphobic disposition, you may want to look away…
RTD: Hello, I’m Nadine Baggott! (to DT, explaining who she is) She minces on about moisturiser.
RTD: We’re not going to answer any questions about Series 4… if you do [ask], I’ll come down there and slap you!
Question: Does the Doctor get married in Series 3?
DT (pondering the question): Yeeess…
RTD: All suspense, gone…
DT: He doesn’t not… That’s actually quite a difficult question to give you a truthful answer to.
RTD: Where’s Jessica Stevenson? (scans audience) She didn’t turn up!
Sam (Jo Whiley’s son): Did Yvonne Hartman [played by Tracy Ann Oberman] get sucked into the void?
DT: Let’s ask her!
TAO: I got turned into a Cyberperson. Although, frankly, Russell, listen…
RTD: For the rest of your life!
DT: Would you like to see her again? Well, she’s on the Weakest Link on Friday!
RTD: She’s too posh now, she’s got a column in the Guardian and everything! How to lose weight after having a baby. I follow it religiously.
RTD, to Daily Star reporter: The man who invented ‘Britney Spears is going to be in Doctor Who as a sex mad clone’. Were you bored that day, Peter? What was going on? You just made it up, didn’t you!
Star reporter: On a very serious note — David and Freema, when you had to kiss, did either of you slip the tongue in?
Jonathan Ross: You know, watching on the big screen with the sound, I thought, this has got to be a movie. It’d be great to have a Doctor Who film. Have you got any plans?
RTD: There are, er, we really haven’t got hours in the day to— I haven’t even got time for breakfast, let alone anything else. One day! One day, and it will be brilliant. But you know, we say that and then they come along and they say…
DT: “It’s got to have Britney Spears in it!”
RTD: And it would become a piece of trash…
DT: Not that we wouldn’t love to have Britney Spears in Doctor Who. I just want to slip that in.
RTD: As a good, bald alien… (to Ross) Give us the money, then. You’ve got it!
JR: I’m funding the Primeval movie.
RTD: ITV’s answer to Doctor Who!… We’re the BBC’s answer to Primeval!
South Wales Echo: What’s the best thing about filming in South Wales?
(pause)
(laughter)
Young boy: When are you going to go to the 1980s?
RTD: I never left!
Boy: Are you ever going to go back in time and meet Jesus?
RTD: Every year I hand that script in, every year… and he’s gay!
does the doctor really get married (tell the truth)