Dermot and the Doctor (TV story)

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National Television Awards special (TV story)

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National Television Awards special
Doctor:	Eleventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Dermot O'Leary
Main setting:	The Doctor's TARDIS
Key crew
Writer:	Steven Moffat
Director:	Richard Senior
Producer:	Andy Bates
Release details
Premiere broadcast:	26 January 2011
Format:	1x 4 minute episode (broadcast alongside the National Television Awards)

The National Television Awards special was broadcast on ITV for NTA 2011.

Plot

Dermot O'Leary wakes up late for the National Television Awards. The Doctor tries to take him there, but keeps ending up in the wrong place, meeting many famous people in places such as Walford, Weatherfield and the BBC Television Centre in 2111.

Cast

• The Doctor - Matt Smith
• Dermot O'Leary - Himself
• Anthony McPartlin & Declan Donnelly - Themselves
• Dot Branning - June Brown
• Bruce Forsyth - Himself
• Graham Norton - Himself
• Amanda Holden PM - Herself
• David Hasselhoff - Himself
• Michael McIntyre - Himself
• Becky McDonald - Katherine Kelly

Crew

• Writer - Steven Moffat
• Director - Richard Senior
• Producer - Andy Bates
• Editor - Richard Senior

References

The Doctor tells Dermot that miners sometimes used to take canaries down into the mines to check that the air was breathable. Missy later tells Clara Oswald that "every miner needs a canary" when trapped in the sewers of Skaro. (TV: The Witch's Familiar)

Story notes

• American TV actor David Hasselhoff, who appears in his capacity as a judge on Britain's Got Talent, is best known for his roles in the cult series Knight Rider and Baywatch; at the height of the popularity of Baywatch in the early 1990s, Hasselhoff was one of numerous actors reported in the media as being considered for the role of the Doctor in a proposed, but never-produced film.
• Graham Norton has two "infamous" connections to Doctor Who: audio from one of his programmes accidentally intruded into the original BBC One broadcast of TV: Rose in 2005, and in 2010 an animated banner promoting one of his shows disrupted the cliffhanger for TV: The Time of Angels, for which Norton later apologised on his program by having his animated self get exterminated by a Dalek.
• Though generally considered invalid, this is the first time original Doctor Who footage was first broadcast on ITV - the BBC's rival television network in the UK.

Filming locations

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