And when was the last time Piper appeared on Doctor Who? Read on for everything you need to know, which takes us back to the new era’s Seasons 1, 2, and 4 (let’s call Gatwa’s the new new era).

Ncuti Gatwa has admitted his biggest Doctor Who regret two months after his two-season run in the Tardis came to an end. The ...

BBC Piper, 42, previously played Rose Tyler, the companion to Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor and David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor, on the show from 2005 to 2006.

In fact, when the show returned in 2005 — it first premiered in 1963 and aired 26 seasons, until 1989 — Billie Piper’s Rose Tyler is the first character seen onscreen.

The Fifteenth Doctor was up against seemingly insurmountable odds as the Ranis were trying to bring back Omega so they could create a new Time Lord race. And no, that wasn’t a good thing because ...

After receiving only one 13-episode-long season as the Doctor alongside Billie Piper’s Rose Tyler, Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor regenerated in 2005’s “The Parting of the Ways.” ...

Paying the Piper I say this with nothing but love for Billie Piper and her work as Rose Tyler: her time as part of Doctor Who should have stayed in the past. Rose is a great character, but she had ...

Billie Piper is playing Rose again Again, no one has actually called her the Doctor just yet. Between that and Piper’s post, plus some timey-wimey shenanigans — that description did come up ...