In an interview with Radio Instances, Peter Davison revealed that his plans to create a follow-up to his hit 2013 sketch, The 5(ish) Medical doctors Reboot, for this 12 months’s sixtieth anniversary of Physician Who have been scrapped.
“I got here up with an thought. It was deemed, by these I confirmed it to, as completely unacceptable, though I believed it was very humorous! It’s a distinct world now. And I’m all the time – I wouldn’t say – pushing the boundaries. My sense of humour is possibly slightly out of sync with the sense of humour that now exists…”
“So, in the long run, it grew to become very clear to me that there have been too many compromises I’d be requested to make within the making of it and I believed it simply greatest to go away it alone – as a result of the unique was good!”
The 5(ish) Medical doctors Reboot was created as a part of the fiftieth Anniversary celebration of Physician Who and penned by fifth Physician actor Peter Davison who starred within the 2013 skit together with fellow Physician actors Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker, and Paul McGann. It additionally featured appearances from newer stars of the present David Tennant, Matt Smith, Jenna Coleman, and John Barrowman, in addition to Physician Who govt producers Steven Moffat, and Russell T Davies.
In a 2020 interview with Den of Geek, Colin Baker acknowledged that he and three of his fellow Physician actors, Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann have been keen to take part in a sequel of the 2013 comedy spoof.
“⋯I’ve spoken to Peter, Paul and Sylvester about it, they usually’re all up for it. If it occurred, we’d do it.”
Regardless of their enthusiasm for a sequel, Physician Who followers are left to benefit from the unique comedy skit as a part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations in November 2023.
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 collection starring Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson will debut in 2024.