Billie Piper is back with a second season of the British series Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Sundays, 10:30 pm/ET, Showtime), in which Hannah — aka Belle, her working-girl alter ego — navigates a "real" relationship and encounters new women in her field. Piper, a former pop star, veteran of Jane Austen movies (Mansfield Park) and new mom, still treats her controversial role with wide-eyed curiosity. TVGuide.com spoke to her about her research into the world of prostitution, the overseas controversy surrounding the sexy show and which scene it was that made her feel "strange" to film.
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Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Billie Piper is getting ready to dress up, strip down and get paid to fulfill men's fantasies between the sheets — on screen, at least. In Showtime's Secret Diary of Call Girl, the U.K. native and new mother has her hands full as a high-end escort in London, walking the line between her public persona as Hannah and her private profession, where clients know her as Belle.
Piper, who began her career in England as a pop star, has tackled a range of roles since segueing into acting, from Fanny Price in Mansfield Park to Rose Tyler in Doctor Who. At the start of her second season as Belle (Secret Diary premieres Sunday, Jan. 18/10:30 pm/ET), TVGuide.com caught up with her to find out where Hannah's exploits will pick up, if her character will ever find love and how Piper will bring even more to the show for Season 3. Stay tuned for Part II of our chat with her next week.
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Matt Smith and Billie Piper
Billie Piper, who has gone from playing Rose Tyler to turning tricks as Showtime's Call Girl, has a message for Doctor Who fans: Relax.
Read the Brit beauty's complete take on the recast — as well as the rumor that she herself would play Doctor — after the jump.
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Secret Diary of a Callgirl courtesy Showtime
New releases announced today, August 14:Secret Diary of a Call Girl - Season 1 will be coming out December 2 Visit TVShowsOnDVD.com for the complete stories on these and other news items.
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“Death is coming... everlasting death for the most faithful companion.”-Dalek CaanAfter the “bad wolf” revelation in the previous episode, the Doctor/Donna immediately return to Earth only to find that everything is it should be. The pair re-enters the TARDIS and while inside, there is a massive jolt from the exterior of the ship. Upon opening the door, they only see space -the Earth has been stolen right from under them.Far across the universe: Martha Jones with UNIT in New York; Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones at Torchwood, Cardiff; Sarah Jane Smith, her son, Luke and Mr Smith their computer in London; Wilfred Mott and Sylvia Noble in London; and later, Rose Tyler teleporting to the street where the TARDIS landed in London, are all discombobulated (cept for Rose) over the weird earthquake (literally?). Each one in their respective locations gazes up to see the night sky filled with many strange planets and moons (26 according to the news repo...
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“Donna Noble, you are the most important woman in the whole of creation.”-Rose TylerWhilst shopping in an alien Asian marketplace, Donna is lured away from the Doctor via an offer of a free fortune telling session. Through a series of questions about her past, we find out that Donna made a choice that eventually led her to meet the Doctor -while in her car with her mother she had the opportunity to turn right at an intersection towards a new job offering and not turns a future with the Doctor if she turned left.. Using some sort of mind control or suggestion as well as a creature that seems to climb onto Donna's back, the woman convinces Donna to 'turn right' and thusly changing the past and future.Jump to Christmas 2006: Donna is in a pub with her mates celebrating the season as well as her higher paying job, when the web starship from the episode, “The Runaway Bride,” (the episode where she first meets the Doctor) flies overhead and starts shooting up London wi...
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Billie Piper, Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Billie Piper is a nice girl who follows her instincts, for better or for worse. That's how the British actress, who'll be familiar only to Doctor Who fans and close followers of the U.K. tabloid press, came to play a high-class hooker in Showtime's controversial new series, Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Mondays at 10:30 pm/ET).
"It's not a shock-factor thing for me," says Piper. "I just thought about playing the part and what it meant emotionally, as opposed to, 'I'm going to get my t--- out.' You can't tell a story of that nature without showing the truth. I wanted it to be really honest."
It may well be Piper's honesty, coupled with the fact that she's grown up in public, that has led her to become a U.K. tabloid target. She's moved out of London to a country cottage in West Sussex because of persistent paparazzi hound
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Mary-Louise Parker by Cliff Lipson/Showtime, Billie Piper courtesy Showtime Networks
It's Billie Piper, charging by the hour. Doctor Who's former Companion is coming to Showtime June 16, playing a legal secretary by day/high-priced hooker by night in Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Pegged as a cross between Sex and the City and Californication, the half-hour comedy will follow Weeds, which launches its fourth season that night. At a Wednesday press conference, Showtime also announced that in April it would start filming Hollywood "It" writer Diablo Cody's (Juno) The United States of Tara. The half-hour pilot, which was produced by Stephen Spielberg and stars Toni Collette as a mom with multiple personality disorder, "should be on sooner rather than later," says Showtime entertainment chief Robert Greenblatt. Despite Cody's burgeoning film career, Tara will "be her No. 1 priority," Greenblatt promises. Lastly, for those who can't get enough of David Duchovny cavorting with nubile young beauties, Californication will return after the Olympics. — Ileane Rudolph
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Showtime has picked up 20 half-hour episodes of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, a British/ITV comedy based on the real-life writings of a legal secretary by day/high-class hooker by night. "It has a great sensibility to it," Showtime entertainment president Bob Greenblatt tells Variety. "It's more emotional than you think it's going to be. It's sexy and funny, but there's other stuff going on."I think what he is saying is that it's the hooker comedy with a heart of gold.Call Girl, starring Doctor Who's Billie Piper, makes its Showtime debut this summer with eight episodes.
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Question: My wife and I are old sci-fi geeks, and it was a true pleasure to discover the Doctor Who episodes running on Sci Fi. Not only does the series look great — embarrassingly so, compared to the original cult show — but it is also wonderfully casted. I know that the first season is over, and that the amazing humor of Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor is now but a fond memory, but will the show keep Billie Piper as Rose Tyler in the second season? And is this a Sci Fi original, as my wife thinks, or an import from the BBC in England? And finally, when does the new season start? For all the comments that have been made in your column about science-fiction shows on television, I have to say that this is the best there is right now, except for Battlestar Galactica.
Answer: I guess a spoiler alert is called for here, but the news from abroad is that Billie Piper, who continues in the second season alongside new Doctor David Tennant, will not return in the third season. As for Sci F ...
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