Amid the news of Stagate SG1′s non-renewal for Season 11 is a story that has almost gotten buried with all the press going to the gate show.
The BBC is reporting that it has squelched plans for a Doctor Who spinoff that would feature Billie Piper as Rose Tyler.
“It was actually commissioned by the controller of BBC One and budgeted,” series creator Russell T Davies told Doctor Who magazine. Davies, however, has decided that the show, Rose Tyler: Earth Defence, was “a spinoff too far” and has slashed it from his mind.
That other spinoff series, “Torchwood,” which stars John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness, has had its own share of production problems and delays but still has the green light for this autumn on BBC Three.
I would have been surprised if Billie Piper really wanted to continue as Rose in a spin off show. From what I could tell, she wanted to move on after Doctor Who and do a different role.
Thank heaven for that. Mind you now I have to worry about what she is going to spoil next. Maybe the gurning little mockney will do us all a favour and fade into obscurity.
Torchwood on the other hand could be very interesting!
When I saw this article, I thought it was a joke.
But, it's not April Fools.
Personally I think they should bring back Christopher Eccleston....He was much better than David Tennant. And I agree, Rose is annoying.
What? I *loved* Rose. By halfway through the first season she'd already become one of my favorite companions. Mind you, not being British, if her Cockney occasionally went a little south I wouldn't notice. (Whereas when Nicola Bryant's American accent slipped, I found it terrifyingly obvious -- that's "glass," dear, not "glahss.")
i liked rose, and wish the producers would get billie piper to return to her role of rose tyler, the doctor's assistant!
i ain't too keen on the replacement martha!!!