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
Utopia (Doctor Who) Other actors returning to the franchise in this episode are Neil Reidman had previously played Tom Braudy in the Eighth Doctor audio drama "Memory Lane" and Robert Forknall, who plays Lord Byron in the Eighth Doctor audio drama "The Company of Friends". Chipo Chung, who played Chantho, would later go on to play the Fortuneteller in "Turn Left". Paul Marc Davis, who played the Futurekind chieftain, also returned to the "Doctor Who" universe, going on to play the role of The Trickster in "The Sarah Jane Adventures" stories "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane", "The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith" and