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The Christmas Invasion
"The Christmas Invasion" is a 60-minute special episode of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast on BBC One on 25 December 2005. This episode features the first full-episode appearance of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and is also the first specially produced ''Doctor Who'' Christmas special in the programme's history. In the episode, principally set in London, the alien race the Sycorax invade Earth, demanding that either humanity surrenders or one third of them will die. Plot The newly regenerated Tenth Doctor takes Rose back to her old estate, and collapses in front of Mickey and Jackie. They take the Doctor to Jackie's flat where they put him to bed. The Doctor tells them that his regeneration has gone wrong and theorises that the energy of his regeneration is luring an unseen foe to him. He passes out again. Early on Christmas morning, the Mars space probe ''Guinevere One'' is intercepted by a giant spaceship heading ...
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David Tennant
David John Tennant (''né'' McDonald; born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. He rose to fame for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor (2005–2010 and 2013) in the BBC science-fiction TV show '' Doctor Who'', reprising the role from 2022 to 2023 as the fourteenth incarnation. Other notable roles include Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy-drama serial ''Casanova'' (2005), Barty Crouch Jr. in the fantasy film '' Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' (2005), Peter Vincent in the horror remake ''Fright Night'' (2011), DI Alec Hardy in the ITV crime drama series ''Broadchurch'' (2013–2017), Kilgrave in the Netflix superhero series '' Jessica Jones'' (2015–2019), Crowley in the Amazon Prime fantasy series ''Good Omens'' (2019–present), and Phileas Fogg in ''Around the World in 80 Days'' (2021). Tennant has worked on stage, including a portrayal of the title character in a 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of ''Hamlet'', later filmed for televisio ...
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Paul Anderson (actor)
Paul Anderson (born 19 November 1978) is an English film and television actor who came to prominence for portraying Arthur Shelby Jr. in ''Peaky Blinders'', Mr Anderson in the 2015 film '' The Revenant'', and Sebastian Moran in '' Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows''. Career Anderson decided to pursue acting in the mid 2000s, after working for many years as a ticket scalper and aspiring musician, and enrolled at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He began his acting career by appearing in plays written by his friend Gregory Burke, and made his screen debut with Burke's critically acclaimed 2014 film '' '71''. He had his first leading role in the 2009 British movie, ''The Firm''. Anderson's break came when, in 2013, he was cast as a main character in the BBC Two show ''Peaky Blinders'' as Arthur Shelby, a gangster in post First World War Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It i ...
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Attack Of The Graske
"Attack of the Graske" is an Interactivity, interactive mini-episode of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' that was first broadcast on the BBC Red Button service on 25 December 2005. It was then made available as an online game on the official ''Doctor Who'' website. Plot The Tenth Doctor welcomes the viewer into the TARDIS. He tells them that he has been watching the viewer for some time, as they have been watching him, and that he has been impressed enough to want to take the viewer to help him on his next adventure. His current companion, Rose Tyler, Rose, has been dropped off at Wembley in 1979 for an ABBA concert. He then imbues the viewer's television remote control with the power of his sonic screwdriver, allowing the viewer to take part in the proceedings. To start, the Doctor shows his new assistant a family of six celebrating Christmas in a living room, by means of the TARDIS scanner – a family, it seems, like any other, except that one of ...
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New Earth (Doctor Who)
"New Earth" is the first episode of the second series of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 15 April 2006. The episode is set five billion years in the future on New Earth, a planet humanity settled on following the destruction of the Earth in the 2005 episode " The End of the World". In the episode, the alien time traveller the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant), his travelling companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), and their old enemy Lady Cassandra (Zoë Wanamaker) uncover many artificially-grown humans having been infected with every disease in a luxury hospital by the Sisters of Plenitude as a way of finding cures for the diseases. The Face of Boe makes his second appearance before his last appearance in "Gridlock", the third and final sequel episode to the "New Earth Trilogy". Plot The Tenth Doctor takes Rose to the year 5,000,000,023 to a world humanity settled on after the destruction of the Earth called "New ...
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The Parting Of The Ways
"The Parting of the Ways" is the thirteenth episode and the season finale of the revived first series of the British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who''. The episode was first broadcast on BBC One on 18 June 2005. It was the second episode of the two-part story. The first part, "Bad Wolf", was broadcast on 11 June. In the episode, the Dalek race invades the human satellite Satellite Five in the year 200,100, intending to make more Daleks by harvesting dead humans. The alien time traveller the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) plans to use the satellite's transmitter to try to destroy every Dalek, while at the same time sending his travelling companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) home to keep her safe. The episode featured Christopher Eccleston making his final appearance as the Ninth Doctor and marks the first appearance of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor. Plot The Ninth Doctor uses the extrapolator on the TARDIS to generate a protective shield around it ...
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Children In Need
''BBC Children in Need'' (also promoted as ' in Wales) is the BBC's UK charity. Since 1980, it has raised over £1 billion for disadvantaged children and young people in the UK. When adjusting for inflation in 2020, it totals £1,493,556,399 from 1980 to 2019. One of the highlights is an annual telethon, held in November and televised on BBC One and BBC Two. "Pudsey Bear" has been BBC Children in Need's mascot since 1985, whilst Sir Terry Wogan was its long-standing host for 35 years. A prominent annual event in British television, Children in Need is one of three high-profile British telethons. It is the only charity belonging to the BBC, the other telethons being Red Nose Day and Sport Relief, both supporting Comic Relief. Following the closure of the BBC Television Centre, the telethon broadcasts took place at the BBC Elstree Centre from 2013 to 2020. For many years, the telethon was up to 7 hours long, although due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the telethon for 2020 wa ...
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