Is David Tennant coming back to dr Who as a companion?

The BBC has confirmed that David Tennant and Catherine Tate will return to Doctor Who for the show’s 60th-anniversary celebrations. The pair reconnected after 12 years to film sequences that will premiere next year.

Tennant initially entered the Tardis as the 10th Time Lord in 2005, with his final episode showing on New Year’s Day in 2010. Tate played his companion Donna Noble in the film.

When the Doctor needed to erase Donna’s memory to preserve her life, the Doctor and Donna parted ways. He warned her family that if she remembered the past, she would die because the talents she held threatened to overwhelm her brain.

Tennant and Tate’s 2008 Doctor Who season is the most successful since the show’s resurrection in 2005, with an average audience of more than eight million viewers per episode.

The 13-episode run received widespread critical acclaim and was nominated for best drama at the Bafta TV Awards that year.