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Another Doctor Who movie, but with Billie Piper?
More a talking point really since the news comes from the Daily Lies (sorry Daily Star), but the Lies has it that there’s now a Doctor Who movie being planned that will feature Billie Piper. Since the Star web site is arse, here’s the story, loving copied and pasted from somewhere else:
WHO THE MOVIE
Sexy Billie in back for Doctor blockbusterSmash telly hit Dr Who is set to become a megabucks movie…and bring back sexy sidekick Billie Piper. Insiders say the flick will reunite assistant Rose Tyler with hunky time traveller David Tennant.
Producers came up with the idea after the BBC admitted the £10 million budget doesn’t stretch to lavish sets for alien planets or even distant destinations on earth.
But after flogging the series to America they’d be able to raise hundreds of millions to make an all action film.
And the first star they want on board is Billie, 24, as feisty Rose – heart-breakingly seperated from 35 year old David in the last series and trapped in a parallel universe.
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Slightly old news this, but classic Coppola movie, The Conversation, is being turned into a TV series. I’ll have to pause and regroup before deciding what to do with that information. It’s a great film, but how do you do that kind of thing weekly? Not without changing the whole premise, at which point, why is it called The Conversation and not just ‘Eavesdropping’ or ‘Bugging’?
