The two actors are currently shooting scenes airing in 2023.

TheBBChas announced that formerDoctor WhostarsDavid Tennantand Catherine Tate will return to the show next year.

“They’re back!”

David Tennant and Catherine Tate will return to Doctor Who next year. BBC

David Tennant and Catherine Tate will return to ‘Doctor Who’ next year.BBC

Russell T. Davies said, in a statement about Tennant and Tate’s return.

Maybe this is a missing story.

Or a parallel world.

Or a dream, or a trick, or a flashback.

It feels like you’re giving yourself stitches like, ‘Why have you done it?‘But…

It was a wonderfully-celebratory-slash-grief-ridden day that I could spend with the family that I’d made.

I suppose the best thing about it is that the episodes are still on.