Two of the staff who helped to operate the Game Station - the space station in orbit above Earth formerly known as Satellite Five. They were employees of the Bad Wolf Corporation, responsible for ensuring that the station continually broadcast hundreds of game shows to the inhabitants of the planet below.
Programmer Davitch Pavale noticed irregular activity in one of the Big Brother games, and alerted his female colleague who had noted similar activity in a Weakest Link she was monitoring. This involved a pair of new contestants who were not taking the deadly games seriously. The Doctor and Rose had been abducted and transported into the games - the Doctor into the Big Brother house and Rose into a Weakest Link contest. The situation worsened when the Doctor broke out of his game, taking another contestant, Lynda, with him. When they alerted the Controller, through whom all output from the Game Station was broadcast, she instructed them to take no hostile action.
The Doctor, Lynda and Captain Jack Harkness - who had ended up on What Not To Wear - were captured by security guards but soon escaped and began making their way towards the control room.
Despite the fact that they appeared to be armed, the Controller once again refused to take action against them.
This was because she was under the control of the Daleks, who had been responsible for bringing the Doctor and his companions here.
The Doctor warned them of an imminent Dalek attack, and the Programmers joined Jack in helping to defend the Station. Both were killed when their weapons proved ineffective against the invaders.
Davitch had carried a torch for his colleague, only letting her know of this before they perished.
Played by: Jo Stone-Fewings (Davitch Pavale), Nisha Nyar. Appearances: Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways (2005).
- It would probably be cause for controversy these days but the Female Programmer doesn't merit a name.
- Nisha Nyar has featured on many Big Finish audios.
- She previously played (uncredited) a Kang in Paradise Towers.
- Jo Stone-Fewings is primarily a theatre actor, having appeared in over a dozen Shakespeare productions, many with the RSC.
- He had previously worked on a Russell T Davies drama - Mine All Mine - in 2003.
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