The 2008 instalment saw David Tennant\u2019s<\/a> Tenth Doctor getting stuck on a shuttle on a tour of a diamond planet, along with a group of frightened tourists and an entity which copied their every word. It featured the likes of Colin Morgan and David Troughton in the guest cast, while Lesley Sharp played Sky Silvestry, the woman who was possessed by the entity.<\/p>\n However, it turns out that Russell T Davies and his team didn\u2019t know the hit they had on their hands with the episode while they were making it, as the Doctor Who showrunner has described it as \u201ca big risk\u201d.<\/p>\n Speaking at a BAFTA event called A Life in Pictures, he said of Midnight: \u201cIt was so risky, that one. I love that one. None of us had any idea if that script worked. It was quite hard to follow on the page.\u201d<\/p>\n He went on to describe the episode\u2019s \u201cterrible read-through\u201d, explaining: \u201cPoor Lesley had to sit there with all the cast around the table and she simply said all their lines with them and we sat there going, \u2018Does that work?\u2019 \u2013 but it was too late, we\u2019d booked them all and we were due in studio.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t tell you what a phenomenal edit that is. There\u2019s micro-edits in there to sync up \u2013 because no two human beings could ever be quite that synced with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n Alice Troughton, who directed the episode, was full of praise for Davies\u2019s writing<\/a> in a previous interview with RadioTimes.com<\/a>, saying: \u201cRussell\u2019s writing in that\u2026 I don\u2019t ignore anything that Russell writes, including full stops and apostrophes, because his writing is so precise and so glowing, that it offers itself up to you and you follow it.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just how having a superb writer next to you can liberate you as the director.\u201d<\/p>\n She was also praising of the episode\u2019s stars, adding that she owes \u201call of Midnight to that amazing ensemble, Lesley Sharp and David Tennant\u201d.<\/p> Doctor Who will return at Christmas on BBC iPlayer and BBC One.<\/strong>\u00a0Previous seasons are available to stream on\u00a0BBC iPlayer<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Sci-Fi<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to see what\u2019s on tonight.\u00a0<\/strong>For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0<\/strong>The Radio Times Podcast<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n “We sat there going, ‘Does that work?’ \u2013 but it was too late.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":53891,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-boss-on-risky-midnight-none-of-us-had-any-idea-if-that-script-worked.jpg",1012,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-boss-on-risky-midnight-none-of-us-had-any-idea-if-that-script-worked-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-boss-on-risky-midnight-none-of-us-had-any-idea-if-that-script-worked-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-boss-on-risky-midnight-none-of-us-had-any-idea-if-that-script-worked-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-boss-on-risky-midnight-none-of-us-had-any-idea-if-that-script-worked.jpg",800,534,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-boss-on-risky-midnight-none-of-us-had-any-idea-if-that-script-worked.jpg",1012,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-boss-on-risky-midnight-none-of-us-had-any-idea-if-that-script-worked.jpg",1012,675,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"\"We sat there going, 'Does that work?' \u2013 but it was too late.\"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/53890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Lesley](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/Midnight-b0c25cf.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"Midnight\\"\/")
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