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Subject: Re: Why Billie Piper Was Cast... [article]
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On 2025-06-07 10:32:15 +0000, Blueshirt said:
> Your Name wrote:
>> On 2025-06-06 12:18:13 +0000, Blueshirt said:
>>> Daniel70 wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Surely that would then be "The New Ninth Doctor"!!
>>> 
>>> I thought we had established that numbers were boring and
>>> we were going with BillieDoctor?
>> 
>> There's no proof that Billie Piper is actually playing the
>> Doctor. Those still bothering to watch the show will now have
>> to wait about two years to find out (assuming the BBC doesn't
>> just cancel the show, despite their claims not to be).
> 
> If people have to wait two years for the next installment of
> "Doctor Who", whatever viewers the show has now might have
> completely disappeared.
> 
> They say absence makes the heart grow fonder but the younger
> generation have shorter attention spans these days ... I'm not
> sure they will sit and wait two years... they will just move on.

New rumours are suggesting that before the next season there is a 
Doctor Who Special coming to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 
relaunch. The rumour says the special will involve Billie Piper and 
David Tennant, and possibly other incarnations of the Doctor too.