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Dr Who fans enjoy Proms special | Dr Who fans enjoy Proms special |
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Thousands of Doctor Who fans have seen a specially-filmed scene starring David Tennant at a BBC Proms concert dedicated to the sci-fi drama. | |
The concert featured music from the series, as well as classical favourites from composers including Holst and Wagner on the theme of space and time. | The concert featured music from the series, as well as classical favourites from composers including Holst and Wagner on the theme of space and time. |
The panto-style scene, showing Tennant addressing the 6,000-strong audience, was also shown on the show's website. | |
Actress Freema Agyeman hosted Sunday's event at London's Royal Albert Hall. | |
She played Martha - the last-but-one assistant to Tennant's Doctor. | She played Martha - the last-but-one assistant to Tennant's Doctor. |
'Brilliant time' | |
The special scene was written by Russell T Davies, who masterminded Doctor Who's return to TV screens in 2005 and announced recently he would be stepping down as executive producer from 2010. | The special scene was written by Russell T Davies, who masterminded Doctor Who's return to TV screens in 2005 and announced recently he would be stepping down as executive producer from 2010. |
"We've had a brilliant time," Davies told BBC News. | |
"If you were in the Royal Albert Hall, you would have had a unique Doctor Who experience," he said of the special scene's airing. | |
"It's fantastic because people queued in the heat and came a long way - I met someone who came here from Belgium." | |
Davies paid tribute to the man who will succeed him at the helm of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat, calling him "a genius". | |
"People don't care about me, I'll just be a bit of history and the show will continue like it has done for 45 years," he added. | |
This was the first appearance of Doctor Who at the BBC Proms, although a concert dedicated to the series was held at Cardiff's Millennium Centre in 2006 to raise money for Children In Need. |