In 2010, readers of Radio Times voted Liz the 27th best companion, out of 48 options. In Ridley Scott 's 2012 film Prometheus, Noomi Rapace 's character is named Dr. Elizabeth Shaw; Dr. Nicolas Pillai, a lecturer from the University of Warwick 's Film and Television Studies department, argues that this is a reference to the Doctor Who character, as Scott used to work for the BBC as a designer. However, this is entirely speculation and neither Scott nor the scriptwriters of Prometheus have ever officially stated the name was intentionally used as such.