Official Twitter page for the BBC Doctor Who announced that filming and production on the fourteenth season of the long-running sci-fi show has officially begun. we’ll see season 14 Nkuti Gatwa officially become the Fifteenth Doctor after David Tennant who returned to the role of the Fourteenth Doctor in 2023 in a series of specials celebrating the show’s 60th anniversary. Will join Gatwa Millie Gibson as his new companion, Ruby Sunday, for his adventures through time and space.

Tennant said he returned to the role “accidentally” as a result of being on guard duty with his ex. Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies. “It all happened a little by chance,” he told the BBC. “Seeing the lockdown is where it all started. At a certain time and day, everyone would press the play button for a certain episode, and some of the people who were involved in those episodes tweeted. I don’t tweet, but my wife helped me.”

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Davis spoke in his monthly column for Doctor Who magazine that he continues to work on scripts for a new series.

I’m sitting here with ten scripts in front of me (so far four specials and six episodes of the New Series, the seventh episode is flickering on the screen, the first line: INSIDE COFFEE BAR, USA - DAY, 1947, and continuing the old tradition, I can tell you that Special One contains these three words: western, pelican, dreams).

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Doctor Who will return in November 2023 with three 60th anniversary specials featuring Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor accompanied once more Katherine 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 during the 2023 holiday season.

Tennant also praised Gatwa’s casting, calling it “brilliant”. “He’s a lovely, lovely person and he’s full of beans and he’s really talented,” he said. “I mean, he is terribly talented. So I’m in awe of every Doctor Who fan for what’s to come, and I include myself in that number.”

Three specials featuring Tennant as the Doctor are expected to air in 2023, the year of the film industry’s 60th anniversary. Doctor Who. All new series Doctor Who will air on BBC One in the UK and on Disney+ for international viewers.

You can see a teaser trailer featuring the previous incumbent. Jodie WhittakerTennant and Gatwa below.