David Tennant and Billie Piper’s ‘Doctor Who’ Story ‘The Satan Pit’ Is Returning to Cinemas With New Footage

Doctor Who The Satan Pit Extended Cut is bringing David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor and Billie Piper’s Rose Tyler back to cinemas for a one-night event featuring restored deleted scenes and previously unseen extended footage. BBC Studios announced September 24 that the movie-length version will screen in more than 1,000 cinemas across six countries on November 23, 2026, marking Doctor Who Day.

The theatrical version combines the 2006 episodes The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit into a newly edited feature-length presentation. Deleted material previously available on DVD has been restored into the story, while additional extended footage will be shown for the first time.

Doctor Who The Satan Pit Extended Cut brings Ten and Rose back

BBC Studios confirmed the cinema event as a collaboration with CinemaLive and Fathom Entertainment. The November 23 screenings will take place across the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

The release revisits a story from Tennant’s first full season as the Doctor, with Piper starring opposite him as Rose. The two-part adventure originally aired in 2006 and sends the TARDIS to Sanctuary Base 6, an isolated station on a planet orbiting a black hole.

There, the Doctor and Rose encounter the Ood while the base’s crew investigates an ancient presence buried beneath the planet. The episodes introduced the Ood and culminated in the Doctor confronting the Beast.

The theatrical version is more than a straightforward re-release. Fathom Entertainment’s announcement says the two episodes have been re-edited into one movie-length cut, incorporating deleted scenes that previously appeared on DVD as well as never-before-seen extended footage.

The screening celebrates 20 years of the Tenth Doctor and Rose

The event arrives two decades after Tennant and Piper shared their first full season as the Doctor and Rose. Tennant had first appeared as the Tenth Doctor at the end of the show’s 2005 season before taking over the role fully alongside Piper in 2006.

The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit were broadcast as a connected two-part story during that season. The theatrical edit allows the episodes to play as a continuous narrative while incorporating material that was not included in their original television broadcasts.

The event also includes a newly recorded interview with director and producer James Strong, who directed both episodes. Strong will discuss the making of the story as part of the theatrical presentation.

The Pop Insider independently confirmed the November event, restored material and six-country rollout, describing the screening as the first big-screen presentation of the combined story.

Why November 23 matters to Doctor Who

The screening date is tied directly to the franchise’s history. Doctor Who first premiered on the BBC on November 23, 1963, and the date is now observed annually as Doctor Who Day.

This year’s event expands beyond the United Kingdom and Ireland. CinemaLive previously worked with BBC Studios on a theatrical presentation of the show’s season finale, while the new event extends the format into the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

That expansion gives the Tennant-Piper story an unusually broad theatrical footprint for a pair of television episodes originally broadcast 20 years earlier.

Independent coverage of the announcement likewise confirms the one-night format, November 23 date and restored footage.

Tickets go on sale September 25

Tickets begin going on sale at 9 a.m. local time on September 25. Fathom Entertainment is handling participating cinemas in the United States, while the international Doctor Who cinema site covers the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

The announcement does not describe the extended cut as a new Doctor Who episode, and Tennant and Piper have not filmed a new continuation for the event. Their performances come from the original 2006 production, with the new release created by re-editing and restoring material from that story.

That distinction is important because the project gives audiences new material without changing the historical context of the performances. The draw is the opportunity to see a familiar Tenth Doctor story reconstructed for a theatrical presentation with footage that was not part of its original television version.

When Doctor Who The Satan Pit Extended Cut arrives November 23, it will therefore function both as a 20th-anniversary celebration of Tennant and Piper’s era and as a substantially expanded presentation of one of their original adventures.