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A press briefing room existed inside the White House.
The room contained a podium, decorated with the seal of the President of the United States, where the President would give an address from. Two American flags were positioned at each side of the podium.
History[]
In circa 2009,[nb 1] US President Barack Obama gave a speech to the press in the room regarding his plan for the recession. AMNN broadcast Obama's speech from the room live on television. Following the creation of the "Master Race", Obama and every other human on the planet took the form of the Saxon Master, who subsequently declared the financial solution "deleted". He was applauded by the press in the room, having also taken the form of the Master. (TV: The End of Time (part one) [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2009 and New Year Special 2010 (BBC One, 2009-2010).)
Obama, in the form of the Master, remained in this room during a call with the Master at the Naismith mansion, where he used his authority as President of the United States to transfer the United Nations protocols to him.
When Rassilon restored the human race, Obama was still standing at the podium in the press briefing room. (TV: The End of Time (part two) [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2009 and New Year Special 2010 (BBC One, 2009-2010).)
Behind the scenes[]
Although the press briefing room is not named in The End of Time [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2009 and New Year Special 2010 (BBC One, 2009-2010)., merely being identified as a room within the White House, it is based on the real world James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. The recreation seen in the television story is not exact, with some notable differences, particularly that of the press section as seen from the front podium.
Footnotes[]
- ↑ Both Planet of the Dead [+]Russell T Davies and Gareth Roberts, Doctor Who Easter Special 2009 (BBC One, 2009). and The End of Time [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2009 and New Year Special 2010 (BBC One, 2009-2010). are referred to in dialogue as taking place after the end of Journey's End [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008)., which is set in either 2008, according to TV: The Fires of Pompeii [+]James Moran, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008)., The Waters of Mars [+]Russell T Davies and Phil Ford, Doctor Who Autumn Special 2009 (BBC One, 2009)., and AUDIO: SOS [+]Juno Dawson, Redacted (BBC Sounds, 2022). (and heavily implied by TV: The Star Beast [+]Russell T Davies, adapted from Doctor Who and the Star Beast (Pat Mills and John Wagner), Doctor Who 2023 specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023). and TV: The Giggle [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 2023 specials (BBC One, 2023).), or six weeks after the middle of May 2009, circa June, according to PROSE: Beautiful Chaos [+]Gary Russell, BBC New Series Adventures (BBC Books, 2008).. However, the year of The End of Time is unspecified, as is whether or not it is intended to be the Christmas immediately after Journey's End.
