'Physician Who' followers delighted because the Physician regenerates as David Tennant

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“Physician Who” followers have been drenched in nostalgia after David Tennant reprised his position because the Time Lord within the dramatic conclusion to the present’s BBC centenary particular.

Sunday’s 90-minute episode of the long-running sci-fi present, titled “The Energy of the Physician,” ended with Jodie Whittaker’s character unexpectedly regenerating into Tennant in her ultimate look because the thirteenth Physician.

“I do know these enamel,” Tennant mentioned – a reference to the tenth Physician’s first phrases – “New enamel… that’s bizarre” – again in 2005.

The sudden plot twist got here after months of hypothesis on how Whittaker’s exit can be dealt with forward of Ncuti Gatwa changing her as lead, and delighted viewers flocked to social media to precise their pleasure.

“Omg, David Tennant again because the physician, greatest regeneration ever,” one individual wrote on Twitter.

One other mentioned: “9 yr outdated me who sobbed for every week as soon as David Tennant regenerated is throwing a f**king celebration proper now.”

A 3rd wrote: “Seeing David Tennant again on display screen because the physician has barely healed my inside little one.”

Tennant instructed BBC News: “What a stunning, pretty factor to get to revisit one thing that was such an exquisite, glad, important time in my life.”

After the present aired, the BBC launched a teaser for subsequent yr’s Sixtieth-anniversary episodes, which characteristic the Scottish actor, who performed the Physician between 2005 and 2010, because the 14th incarnation. The clip additionally confirmed that Catherine Tate shall be reprising her position as his former companion, Donna Noble, for 3 particular episodes set to air in November subsequent yr.

Ncuti Gatwa will then take management of the TARDIS because the fifteenth Physician, along with his first episode because of air over the festive interval in 2023, the BBC mentioned.

“If you happen to thought the looks of David Tennant was a shock, we’ve acquired a lot extra surprises on the best way!” mentioned showrunner Russell T. Davies in an announcement. “The trail to Ncuti’s Fifteenth Physician is laden with thriller, horror, robots, puppets, hazard and enjoyable! And the way is it related to the return of the great Donna Noble? How, what, why? We’re providing you with a yr to take a position, after which all hell lets free!”

Whittaker, who made historical past in 2017 when she succeeded Peter Capaldi to change into the primary girl to play the Physician, introduced her exit in July final yr.

Commenting on her choice to step down, Whittaker mentioned her time on the present was “the perfect job I've ever had.”