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David Tennant 'quits' major BBC role after character 'killed off'
Broadchurch and Good Omens star David Tennant, who will soon be seen in Jilly Cooper's Riders, won't return to a major TV role as his character has been ‘killed off’
As fans of iconic science fiction series Doctor Who celebrate the return of the time-travelling Time Lord, with new episodes starring Ncuti Gatwa airing on the BBC from Saturday 11 May, there is also some sad news as current showrunner and script writer Russell T Davies has confirmed that David Tennant ’s previous incarnation of the Doctor will not be returning – and has, in fact, been killed off. While the three special anniversary episodes ended with the Doctor splitting in two, with David’s character going into retirement and Ncuti’s new Doctor taking over the TARDIS controls, many fans were hoping that David would return at a later date – but now Russell has confirmed that won’t be the case. He recently spoke about working with the actor as the new series launched: “I consider myself to be the luckiest man on earth that in the year that I came along to take over Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa was coming to the end of his time on Sex Education.
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