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Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper star as Doctor Who and in BBC's reboot of "Doctor Who" in March more 2005. (BBC) Comics Kingdom: Read your favorite By Katrina Tulloch | [email protected] Print comics online Follow on Email on March 24, 2015 at 3:40 PM, updated March 24, 2015 at 3:53 PM

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Oh, how far we've come. DOCTOR WHO CLASS ENTERTAINMENT PHOTOS 2015 Last night, Anthony Rotolo's Doctor Who in The TARDIS and 1963 television the Digital Age class finally broke away from covering classic Doctor Who to modern and Who, starting with BBC's official Cybermen reboot of the beloved show on March 26, 2005. Doctor Who class 'tapped into the global juggernaut of fandom' Yes, that was a decade ago this week, and yes, Rotolo planned our class to coincide perfectly and the with that anniversary. Zac Brown Band fans , Lalla Ward and Last week, we left off at the end of the the unbearable Fans of the Zac Brown Band have fun Wilderness Years. Fandom even manifested in before his concert at the Lakeview professional ways, including a 1999 comedy Free 'Doctor Who' class at Palace Amphitheater ... See photos» special "The Curse of Fatal Death." Theater draws 200 students

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Dog food recall: 4 companies pull products after deaths, illnesses Conversations became more serious at BBC Worldwide in 2003: What do we do with "Who?" Finally, a new era of "Who" (NuWho) was underway. Report: Woman kicked off plane to Syracuse After the significant failures by producers in the late 1980s (lookin' at you, John suspended from NY Nathan-Turner), the reboot needed a hero to bring the Doctor back. state job

1. Woman kicked off plane to Syracuse for The BBC hired Russell T Davies, the producer of Britain's " as Folk," as show 'screaming' about seat runner for the "Doctor Who" reboot in 2005. near baby (video)

Davies flirts with using an American model for the new show, drawing inspiration How CNY traffic stop from hits like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "24" and "Lost." He wanted to recreate for speeding ended their powerful singular episodes, rather than continue with traditional British with driver facing up to life in prison serials.

"Remember, the Internet exists now so 'Buffy' and 'Lost' had huge internet Carnival brawl: Over 20 communities dedicated to picking apart every little detail," Rotolo said. people kicked off cruise ship for violent fight (video) Davies embraced modern media and took advantage of buzz on the internet. He played the news cycle, leaking bits of information here and there.

Davies also decided the debut would not show the 's regeneration into the Ninth. Instead, writers wove missing pieces into the story line, revealing there was a Great , and the Doctor was the last remaining . ACTIVE DISCUSSIONS

NuWho premiered March 26, 2005 on BBC One and 10 million people tuned in. 1 Syracuse basketball bounces back with huge win at Miami 2. Christopher Eccleston (86 comments)

The role of the went to 2 Syracuse lacrosse shredded by Christopher Eccleston, a British actor in No. 3 Albany, 15-3 Britain, known for serious roles. (24 comments)

Eccleston didn't grow up as a "Who" fan 3 McMaster: Evidence of Russian but he agreed to do the show because meddling in election 'now Russell T Davies was involved. He was really incontrovertible' (93 comments) seen as an interesting choice, over Christopher Eccleston as actors like Hugh Grant (who turned the Ninth Doctor. down the role and later regretted it). BBC 4 Did the Trump campaign collude with Russia? (22 comments) In interviews, Eccleston said he believed the central message in "Doctor Who" was to love and accept life in all forms. He reacted with wonder to all forms of life 5 Teen stabbed on Syracuse's rather than horror. He also renewed a sense of mystery and darkness in the West Side Doctor's character. (5 comments)

Eccleston debuted with a very different costume from classic "Who." His simple See more comments » leather jacket was edgy, rugged and far more muted than his colorful counterparts.

Eccleston was also the first Doctor not to perform with Received Pronunciation, the standard accent of English in the United Kingdom. He kept his native accent from the Manchester area in the North West of England.

"Before, people from different regions didn't see people on TV who represented them," Rotolo said. Rose Tyler, the Doctor's new , even points out his accent to which he responded, "Lots of planets have a North."

3. Billie Piper

Billie Piper's casting as the Ninth Doctor's companion, Rose Tyler, was controversial among fans because Piper was known for a very different kind of career.

If you were from U.K., you'd know Piper as Billie, a former pop star who emerged after the Spice Girls era.

We watched Piper's 1998 music video "" in class, a weird, British mashup of Britney Spears and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, set to a Robin Sparkles-level of awful music. Billie - Because We Want To

"As you can see, Whovians were nervous," Rotolo said. "If she bombed, the show would bomb."

But many fans (though not all) embraced Rose. She was nothing like the more two-dimensional companions of classic "Who." She's compassionate, multifaceted and stubborn. She has family and friends. She questions everything and takes off on her own, even if when the Doctor tells her to stay put. She's as much of a star on the show as the Doctor is.

The first episode, titled "Rose," opens with a typical day in her life, rather than the Doctor's journey to meet her. Piper and Eccleston developed quick chemistry. They joked, flirted, fought and challenged each other.

NuWho finds its voice with "" and "." Steven Moffat's two-part story delivers Rose and the Doctor to in 1941, where they return to an old "Who" backdrop: The Blitzkrieg.

The story won the 2006 for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, and cemented NuWho as a hit.

Doctor Who in the Digital Age covers both classic and recent episodes of "Doctor Who," with discussions and analysis of the history, evolution and cultural impact of the long-running British science fiction series.

Two hundred people (about half SU students, half non-students) enrolled in the live, free class at Syracuse University, but thousands of online students from all around the world follow along and participate in the class discussions via Twitter and Google+.

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marat Mar 24, 2015 The "reboot" is far superior to the old version in many ways. Oddly, Eccleston now seems estranged from the show he did so much for, doesn't show up in any later specials.

Billie Piper later had some fantastic chemistry and a permanent (alternate) future with Who, .

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Katrina Tulloch | [email protected] Mar 24, 2015 @marat I agree. We haven't covered Eccleston's troubled departure yet in class, but it's a shame things ended on a rocky note. He was excellent, and the Doctor who hooked me in the first place. Tennant, though, was my favorite.

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