Sounding very very similar to Time Lord Victorious, David Tennant described his return to Physician Who because the Fourteenth Physician in three sixtieth anniversary specials as a “victory lap”.

“The specifics of coming again to Physician Who took a little bit of wrangling,” he advised Radio Occasions. “However we have been at all times receptive to the notion. Initially, it was an informal dialog going, ‘Wouldn’t or not it’s enjoyable to do a one-off?’ Then Russell [T Davies] was again working the present and all of a sudden it could possibly be one thing greater. However there’s actually no stress. It’s a victory lap, in a means – you get to get pleasure from one thing that had meant a lot to you, one final shot earlier than you get too outdated to do it once more.”

Of his successor, Fifteenth Physician actor Ncuti Gatwa, Tennant was expectant.

“It makes me really feel like I’m simply holding the coat until he arrives as a result of he’s very thrilling.”

Physician Who will return in November 2023 with three sixtieth anniversary specials starring David Tennant because the Fourteenth Physician and Catherine Tate as companion Donna Noble. Within the following festive interval, Ncuti Gatwa will star in his first full Physician Who episode because the Fifteenth Physician. A brand new Physician Who sequence starring Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson will debut in 2024.