New Earth (Doctor Who) New Earth (Doctor Who) "New Earth" is the first episode of the second series of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It was first broadcast on BBC One on 15 April 2006. The episode is set five billion years in the future on the planet New Earth, a planet humanity settled on following the destruction of the Earth in the 2005 episode "The End of the World". In the episode, the alien time traveller the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant), his travelling companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), and their old enemy Lady Cassandra (Zoë Wanamaker) uncover many artificially-grown humans
Doctor Who in Australia from 1 July ABC2 again repeated the revived series Monday-Friday at ~7:35pm. Starting with the three 2009 "Doctor Who's Greatest Moments" specials made by the "Doctor Who Confidential" team, they then went back to Series 1 and "Rose" and continued all the way through to "The Name of the Doctor" on Friday 22 November. On the morning of Sunday 24 November ABC1 was one of multiple broadcasters in 94 countries to take a live simulcast of the "Doctor Who" 50th Anniversary Special "The Day of the Doctor" from the BBC. The live simulcast went out across Australia at local times