David Tennant could be up for a return journey within the Tardis, so long as its on the massive display screen.
Whereas showing collectively at LA Comedian Con, which befell September 26-28, Tennant and Billie Piper, who performed companion Rose Tyler to Tennant’s Physician Who, have been requested in the event that they’d be up for returning to their iconic characters for a Physician Who film? Each gave enthusiastic responses within the constructive.
“I all the time was pitching for that,” Piper mentioned. “The place’s the movie?” Tennant added, “We’re obtainable!“
Piper really premiered on Physician Who earlier than Tennant, as Rose Tyler was additionally the companion for Christopher Eccleston’s Physician Who when the sequence returned in 2005. On the finish of that first season, Eccleston was changed with Tennant, making him the tenth Physician, with Piper persevering with within the function of Rose for Tennant’s first full season.
The 2 have reprised their characters a number of occasions through the years after their stints as the principle Physician and companion have been over. That features The Day of the Physician, Physician Who’s fiftieth anniversary particular episode. That episode was proven in choose film theaters, so Tennant and Piper have performed their characters on the massive display screen earlier than.
“I liked it that folks went to see the final Physician Who episode within the cinema,” Piper mentioned. “I simply liked that. I’d love the Physician Who expertise on the massive display screen. They’re form of like movies anyway.”
There even have been three Physician Who films thus far. The primary two films, Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks’ Invasions Earth 2150 A.D., have been launched in 1965 and 1966, respectively, and featured Peter Cushing’s Physician Who. The third was 1996’s Physician Who, which was the lone solo journey for Paul McGann’s Physician Who.
Tennant’s final look as Physician Who got here in 2023, when he appeared in three episodes of Ncuti Gatwa’s debut season because the Physician. Piper was most just lately seen in a 2025 episode of Physician Who.
So far as Tennant and Piper’s aforementioned availability, amongst Tennant’s upcoming tasks are Good Omens season 3, which is anticipated to premiere in 2026, and Rivals season 2. Piper, in the meantime, at present stars within the Netflix hit Wednesday, which has been renewed for season 3.
The way forward for Physician Who, alternatively, is a bit up within the air. Gatwa exited the function after the latest season concluded, so the seek for the sixteenth Physician has begun; Piper’s title has even been rumored, although others have made the case why Piper cannot be the sixteenth physician.
Whether or not or not this subsequent chapter of Physician Who may very well be changed into a film is to be decided, however the BBC’s content material chief just lately mentioned that Physician Who will proceed.
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Might 11, 2024
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BBC One
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Alex Pillai, Peter Hoar, Ben Chessell, Julie Anne Robinson, Jamie Donoughue, Amanda Brotchie, Dylan Holmes Williams
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