Annie Frederick (publicist)

Annie Frederick was a publicist for the BBC during the 2005 revival of Doctor Who.

When an earlier version of TV: Rose was infamously leaked, Annie Frederick acted as a spokesperson for the BBC, telling in an email that the leaked episode was not a publicity stunt, but a major breach of copyright.

She was credited with being a publicist for the first version of the Doctor Who website.

Frederick was thanked in the 2005 documentary Designing Doctor Who.

A character called Annie Frederick was a prominent character on the U.N.I.T. website, who seemed to bear similarities to the real world Frederick; both, for example, were involved with publicity. Annie Frederick of the DWU was probably created in homage to the real Frederick, or was a self-insert by Frederick herself. Another BBC publicist, Michelle Osborn, seemingly had her own DWU counterpart, M Osborne.