The official Twitter page for BBC’sDoctor Whohas announced that filming and production is officially underway for the fourteenth season of the long-running science-fiction show. Season 14 will seeNcuti Gatwaofficially take over as the Fifteenth Doctor, following on fromDavid Tennantwho has returned to the role for 2023 as the Fourteenth Doctor for a series of specials to celebrate the show’s 60th anniversary. Gatwa will be joined byMillie Gibsonas his new companion, Ruby Sunday, for his adventures through time and space.
Tennant revealed he had returned to the role’by accident’as a result of taking part in lockdown watch-alongs with formerDoctor WhoshowrunnerRussell T. Davies.“It all slightly happened a little bit by accident,” he told the BBC. “The lockdown watch-alongs is where this all started. At a certain time and day everyone would press play on a certain episode and some of the people who had been involved in those episodes were tweeting along. I don’t tweet but my wife helped me."
Davies revealed in his monthly column for theDoctor Whomagazine that he was continuing to work on scripts for the new series.
I sit here with ten scripts in front of me (four Specials and six episodes of the New Series, so far, with Episode Seven blinking away on the screen, first line: INT. COFFEE BAR, USA – DAY, 1947, and to continue an old tradition, I can tell you that Special One contains these three words: westerly, pelican, dreams).
RELATED:‘Doctor Who’: David Tennant Reveals How Russell T. Davies Brought Him BackDoctor Whowill return in November 2023 withthree 60th anniversary specialsstarring Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor, accompanied once more byCatherine Tate,who returns to the role of his companion and assistant, Donna Noble. Gatwa will take control of the TARDIS as the fifteenth Doctor with his first episode airing over the festive period in 2023.
Tennant also praised Gatwa’s casting, labeling him as ‘brilliant’. “He’s a lovely, lovely man, and he’s full of beans, and he’s really talented,” he said. “I mean, he’s like scary-talented. So I’m thrilled for every Doctor Who fan for what’s to come, and I include myself in that number.”
The three specials starring Tennant as the Doctor are expected to air in 2023, the 60th anniversary year forDoctor Who. All new episodes ofDoctor Whowill air on BBC One in the UK and Disney+ for international viewers.
you may see the teaser trailer featuring previous incumbentJodie Whittaker, Tennant and Gatwa down below.
