Former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies revealed earlier this week that a long-lost “piece of history” will be released online ahead of the 15th anniversary simulcast of Rose – Davies’ original 2005 ‘pilot’ for the rebooted version of NuWho.

The never seen before long-shelved bit of promotional material, offering a ‘prequel’ to Rose the first of the revived series that sees Christopher Eccleston as the ninth incarnation of the Doctor, his only series in the role, accompanied by Billie Piper, as his first and main companion Rose Tyler, whom he plucks from obscurity on planet Earth, and to whom he grows increasingly attached.

Davies joined twitter especially today for this evenings live rewatch of Rose on twitter:

HELLO FAITHFUL VIEWER. This is me, on Twitter. Ready to livestream and livetweet tonight. let's have fun. Dark days, but Doctor Who is here! #TripOfALifetime #DoctorWho — Russell T Davies (@russelldavies63) March 26, 2020

Sharing the exciting announcement on social media earlier this week, Davies wrote:

Speaking on the prequel Davies Spoke on the BBC Website:

This was never meant to exist. Way back, maybe early 2013, Tom Spilsbury, the editor of Doctor Who Magazine, asked me if I wanted to contribute to DWM’s great 50th special. Maybe addressing that huge gap in Doctor Who lore, how did the Eighth Doctor regenerate into the Ninth? I said well, yeah, no, but, isn’t that best left to the imagination? If I write a script, it would be too real, too fixed, too canonical. But Tom’s never one to give up. He said okay, what if you wrote, say, the final pages of a Target novel? About the last days of the Time War. The Doctor’s final moments. And we could present it like a surviving fragment of the Novel That Never Was, so it exists in that half-real space of the spin-offs, possible but not factual, just slightly canon, if you so choose. Okay, Tom. You temptress. I’m in.

To read the prequel head over to the BBC Doctor Who website here.

Although Doctor Who series 12 came to an end at the beginning of the month, with show’s bosses confirming that the Daleks will be back and threatening the Time Lord and friends when the series returns over Christmas.

The hit BBC series will air the one-off festive episode, titled Revolution Of The Daleks.

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