The Runaway Bride - Dr Who Christmas Special

[Jojo]

Award-winning comedy actress Catherine Tate and Sarah Parish star alongside David Tennant in a special Christmas edition of the time-travelling adventure.

Bride-to-be Donna mysteriously vanishes as she prepares to marry her boyfriend Lance in a glittering ceremony on Christmas Eve. She suddenly appears, to her complete astonishment, in the Tardis with the Doctor.

As the Tardis races to get to the church on time, the Doctor and Donna are closely watched by the sinister figure of The Empress of Racnoss from her throne in her spaceship. It soon becomes clear that Donna is the key to an ancient alien plan to destroy the Earth.

David Tennant plays the Doctor, Catherine Tate plays Donna and Sarah Parish plays The Empress of Racnoss.

[squillyfer]

Cant wait for this, I love dr who and catherine tate should be really good in it too

[Sam-Elle]

I love catherine tate and doctor who...so i cant wait for it.

[Bad Wolf]

ohhh the excitment - love dr who, love david tennant

cant imagine sarah parish being mean though - they were brilliant in blackpool together

[Chloe-Elise]

Theres a trailer for this on YouTube from the Doctor Who concert, am I allowed to post it here? It looks brilliant :D

[Layne]

Theres a trailer for this on YouTube from the Doctor Who concert, am I allowed to post it here? It looks brilliant :D

Yes post it please. I can't wait Sarah Parish and Catherine Tate and David Tenant its going to be great!!!

[Sam-Elle]

Yes post it please. I can't wait Sarah Parish and Catherine Tate and David Tenant its going to be great!!!

i agree with you layne, i want to see it too...

[Chloe-Elise]

Here it is, I can't wait to see it :D


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[Abi]

Spider woman Sarah Parish- Runaway Bride baddie

Monster maker Neill Gorton has revealed the pain behind his most challenging creation yet - the Racnoss Empress from The Runaway Bride, played by Sarah Parish.

"We've fitted all manner of prosthetics to hoardes of tough stuntmen over the years," said Neill, "but Sarah is, without doubt, the hardiest person we've ever had the pleasure to work with!"

Parish had to endure punishing 14-hour days to become the sinister half-spider, half-human Empress of the Racnoss. This included a full two hours in the prosthetics department each morning of the three-day shoot, where she was fitted with a prosthetic head, contact lenses and dentures.

Wearing a body suit, she then took her place within the complex set, having to contort her body into a kneeling position and arch her back for the entire 11 hours of shooting, before spending a further hour at the end of the day having everything removed.

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[Abi]

TV Coverage of the Runaway Bride

This evening's Wales Today (BBC Wales) had a brief article on The Runaway Bride, reporting that the Doctor "gets thrown back into a bizarre set of circumstances ... it's so strange, even the cast weren't sure how the final cut would look".

David Tennant commented: "It's one of those shows where so much happens in post-production. All sorts of things happen to the TARDIS that have never happened before. The three of us [Tennant, Sarah Parish and Catherine Tate] did a scene together when we were in a completely different room on a completely different day."

Sarah Parish added: To see the final [result] it's unbelievable - it's so exciting!"

Meanwhile, Catherine Tate appeared on the New Paul O'Grady Show on Channel 4, and inevitably the first topic of discussion was the forthcoming episode. Tate reported that she really enjoyed her time making the show, and suggested she really would have wanted to have become a proper companion rather than just the one-off appearance she had for the special. She also mentioned she'd attended the screening that had taken place today (which is presumably where the Wales Today item originated).

O'Grady also commented that he wants a small part in the series!

[Abbie]

oooo this sounds very interesting, Im very excited now.

[DaVeyWaVey]

I can't wait for the Christmas episode now! It should be great! It said in the paper that Catherine Tate turned down the role of becoming the Doctor's new assistant after filming the Christmas episode. Apparently towards the end, the Doctor and Catherine Tate's character spark up a good friendship. David Tennant admitted he was dissapointed that Catherine Tate turned down the role.

[Layne]

I don't think that is entirely true, Catherine Tate was on Paul O Grady the otehr day, and he asked her about becoming the Doctor's New Assistant and she said no, she was just in it for the episode, but she was speaking very highly of it, and saying how its an amazing opputunity to be the doctors assistant so i don't think if she got offered it she would of turned it down :searchme:

[EE Rocks]

I'm looking foward too it. Who do you think will win the head to head, Doctor who or Emmerdale? Should be interesting.

[Layne]

I'm looking foward too it. Who do you think will win the head to head, Doctor who or Emmerdale? Should be interesting.

ooh Doctor Who i am sure! I have set sky+ and my dvd recorder so hopefully it should tape! And i can't wait to see Sarah Parish in it - i love her!

[Abi]

I don't think that is entirely true, Catherine Tate was on Paul O Grady the otehr day, and he asked her about becoming the Doctor's New Assistant and she said no, she was just in it for the episode, but she was speaking very highly of it, and saying how its an amazing opputunity to be the doctors assistant so i don't think if she got offered it she would of turned it down :searchme:

Yeah, i read that on Outpost Gallifrey. The Sun said that she was really disappointed to have not been asked to be the permanent companion, but i dunno... i think that they're just taking a sarcastic comment to the extreme, if that makes sense. They were making out that she felt like she had "failed" as she hadn't been asked to stay... I just find that a bit unbeleiveable

[JoeBoy1987]

i am looking forward to this. its the sort of programm that is perfect for xmas day. it doesn't require too much thinking.

[Johnny Allen]

cant wait but does anyone think Sarah's Parish's monster looks abit I dont know cheesy.

[Jojo]

I enjoyed the episode, but have to say - Catherine Tate did my head in!!! I'm sorry, but if she had shouted one more time, I would have felt compelled to climb in my tv and knock her block off !!! :rotfl:

Good apart from that though. Good to see mention of Rose too, and to see that the Dr did miss her.

I had a feeling that Lance would be involved somewhere though - no one would have been that stupid at first glance of seeing an arachnid that size, to go up behind it with a pick axe would they!?