Missing Rose

For those of you not following the DOCTOR WHO television series, the latest “companion” to the doctor is a brash redheaded comedienne, an actress with the name Catherine Tate. (She plays “Donna”). However, the most famous recent “companion” to the Doctor was an actress and former pop star named Billy Piper, who in the Doctor Who series went by the name of “Rose”. The character of Rose left the Doctor over a season ago. Most fans of the current series want Rose to return, you see. This is important if you want to click on the video below.

What follows is a slice taken from the comic relief show done in Britain, a skit in a classroom between the actor David Tennant, also known as the Tenth Doctor, and Catherine Tate. The conversation takes place not in the Doctor Who context, but in the context of a (British) English classroom, so Americans may have a bit of trouble following the dialect…