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Billie Piper to return to Dr Who

I’m really not sure how I feel about this.

Actress Billie Piper is to return to Doctor Who, the BBC has confirmed.

She will star in three episodes of the sci-fi drama, reprising her role as the Doctor’s companion, Rose Tyler.

Rose’s return will mean the Doctor has three assistants in next year’s series – Donna, played by Catherine Tate, and Freema Agyeman as Martha.

I don’t dislike the character of Rose as much as many people seem to. I just think it goes against the idea of Doctor Who to have companions leaving and returning so quickly. She’s only been gone for a year. Doctor Who is about the Doctor. Companions come and go. They’re less important. The audience shouldn’t get too attached to them.

But we’ll see how it goes. Maybe it’ll work out ok.

“A Spin-Off Too Far”

Plans for a Doctor Who spin-off starring Billie Piper as Rose Tyler have been cancelled according to a story on the BBC.

Plans for a Doctor Who spin-off show starring Billie Piper were scrapped at the last minute, series producer Russell T Davies has revealed.

“It was actually commissioned by the controller of BBC One and budgeted,” the writer told Doctor Who Magazine.

Davies later decided the programme, Rose Tyler: Earth Defence, was “a spin-off too far” and called it off.

Piper, 23, left Doctor Who earlier this year. She will be replaced by Freema Agyeman, 27, in the next series.

“We hadn’t formally approached Billie,” said Davies, “although we’d mentioned it to her.”

This sounds like a bad idea on so many levels. Not least of which is the fact that they hadn’t approached Billie Piper. And if she wanted to go on playing Rose Tyler, surely she would have stayed on Doctor Who.