More about The Runaway Bride

BBC1's Breakfast also covered yesterday's press screening of The Runaway Bride this morning. As with Wales Today last night, the recorded item featured interviews with David Tennant, Catherine Tate and Sarah Parish talking about making the Christmas special.

On the Doctor's surprise at the Bride's appearance in the TARDIS, Tennant said: "I think he's used to his companion being rather grateful for being shown around the universe and shown the sights, but Donna couldn't be less interested. It's an interesting new dynamic for the show."

Catherine Tate commented on several ideas she'd put forward for her characterisation which had been turned down, though she jokinging said that the "comedy teeth" were given to Sarah Parish instead! She also re-iterated that she would have loved to have been an assistant but wasn't asked!

Sarah Parish commented on her role as the villainess: "I think it's the biggest real monster that Doctor Who has ever done. They've done big CGI monsters but this was actually made ... It was a good four hours costume call in the morning for the prosthetics, then an hour and a half to get it off."

Tennant: "It's only the second Christmas that Doctor Who's ever done, but people already seem to be expecting it as part of their Christmas Day lineup, so that's quite nice and I hope that everyone will tune in!"

The item was accompanied by a number of clips from the episode, plus some still photographs of the principal villainess,The Empress of the Racnoss played by Parish in full glory. Some of these photos have now been featured on theBBC News website and the official Doctor Who website. The BBC Breakfast segment is also available to watch online from the BBC News website (real player) - this includes the clips if you want to avoid seeing them!