Updating the Companion Archetypes in the Modern Era Rose is an updated version of the Teenage Girl Companion. Davies retooled Doctor Who so that characters and emotions were as important as the ...

The Doctor's companion serves as a kind of surrogate for the audience; they are awestruck – or confused – by the same things ...

Rose has been from South London to the end of the world... and beyond. We thought she was stuck in another universe. But how is she no longer trapped? Why is she searching for the Doctor?

Billie Piper’s titular Rose Tyler, put her story at the forefront, setting a template the next 20 years of TARDIS travelers. Its framing of the Doctor, so mysterious and utterly alien ...

which featured Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor flying through time and space with Billie Piper's Rose Tyler. Among the celebrations, many fans of the franchise continued to look forward to a ...

The success of Doctor Who’s return was as much down to Rose Tyler as it was to the nation’s fond memories of former Doctors and Daleks. The casting of Billie Piper seemed strange at the time ...