Though seemingly limitless questions proceed to swirl about Physician Who’s future — Who’s the subsequent Physician? How will the forthcoming Christmas particular clear up the Billie Piper-shaped thriller from the season 15 finale? — followers can take consolation from one everlasting fact: There’s no uncomfortable Whoniverse scenario that can not be improved by way of copious software of former Physician David Tennant. Simply…perhaps not in the best way that many people had been doubtless anticipating.
Tennant is by far the most well-liked modern-era Physician, and with good purpose. He’s returned to the sequence twice since he initially turned in his TARDIS keys in 2010, reprising his position because the Tenth Physician for the fiftieth anniversary particular “The Day of the Physician,” and enjoying the Fourteenth incarnation of the well-known Time Lord for a trio of sixtieth anniversary episodes in 2023. And now he’s set to return to the franchise once more, this time in a model new sequence of audio adventures for Huge End.
For many who don’t know, Huge End is a longtime writer of Physician Who tales in audio format, and repeatedly options arcs with former Medical doctors, companions, and ancillary forged members. (Notable contributors embrace everybody from Paul McGann and Jodie Whittaker to Michelle Gomez and Colin Baker.) Tennant has already accomplished a number of Tenth Physician journeys with Huge End, in tales which have reunited him with former forged members like Piper, Catherine Tate, and Alex Kingston.
This newest effort will likely be comprised of 15 new audiobook adventures that includes Tennant’s Tenth Physician. The primary 12 tales have a deliberate bimonthly launch schedule beginning in the summertime of subsequent yr, and the ultimate three will likely be packaged collectively as a part of a field set centered round tales during which Tennant’s Tenth Physician interacts with different incarnations of the character. The place any of those tales will slot into the present’s present canon stays to be seen, however the prospects—notably for these Physician team-ups—are thrilling.
