{"id":480876,"date":"2026-03-17T19:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480876\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:38:14","slug":"doctor-who-has-never-met-an-uncertain-time-it-cant-throw-david-tennant-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480876\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Doctor Who’ Has Never Met an Uncertain Time It Can’t Throw David Tennant At"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Doctor Who<\/a> fans wait to learn more about its future\u2014no longer a Disney<\/a> co-production, definitely getting a Christmas special<\/a>, no idea about future seasons, and no clue if Billie Piper is playing the next Doctor<\/a>\u2014the BBC series has announced a new addition to its Big Finish Productions audio adventures<\/a>. And it\u2019ll star the closest thing the show has to comfort food: David Tennant.<\/p>\n

During his run as the Tenth Doctor, Tennant created what may be the most popular Time Lord to ever emerge from the TARDIS. That goodwill came in handy when Doctor Who needed a special hook for its trio of 60th-anniversary specials\u2014which also marked the kickoff of the BBC\u2019s production partnership with Disney. Tennant tapped back in at the end of his Broadchurch co-star Jodie Whittaker\u2019s time as the Thirteenth Doctor, playing a new version of the character who very much resembled the Tenth Doctor.<\/p>\n

The Fourteenth Doctor hasn\u2019t technically departed the show; he and Ncuti Gatwa\u2019s Fifteenth Doctor had an unusual \u201cbi-generation\u201d at the end of the third special. And we may yet see him again in Russell T. Davies\u2019 upcoming holiday episode\u2014the only Doctor Who coming to TV while the show figures out its future in the wake of its split with Disney last year (unless Disney+ ever decides to let stateside fans watch that spinoff series<\/a>, that is).<\/p>\n

However, Big Finish is swooping in with more Tennant for the masses, back in his sneakers as the Tenth Doctor. The company has announced<\/a> 15 new hour-long, full-cast audio adventures.<\/p>\n

\u201cBig Finish makes it dangerously easy\u2014you turn up, have a lovely time, and suddenly you\u2019ve saved the universe again,\u201d Tennant said as part of the announcement.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Briggs, the company\u2019s creative director, teased \u201ca rollercoaster ride during these new adventures. They\u2019re fast, funny, scary audio dramas with surprises from the very first episode.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first 12 episodes will be released bimonthly starting in summer 2027, and there will also be a three-episode set (release date TBD) in which \u201cthe Tenth Doctor teams up with some of his other incarnations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Doctor Who fans wait to learn more about its future\u2014no longer a Disney co-production, definitely getting a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[243,170937,3149,835,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc","tag-big-finish","tag-david-tennant","tag-doctor-who","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}