Catherine Tate on ex Doctor Who co-star David Tennant: 'We're looking for projects together'

Catherine Tate has revealed that she and her former Doctor Who co-star David Tennant are looking for more projects together.

The comedian said in a webchat with Guardian readers that she would love to team up with Broadchurch star David again, and that they were on the hunt for roles.

She said she had loved starring alongside him since their first Doctor Who episode: "Working with David is the best. We get on so well and it's just always so much fun. It's just that something clicked when we first started working together from day one on The Runaway Bride and hopefully will continue to.

"We're looking for future projects together."

The pair starred as the Doctor and his assistant Donna in Doctor Who, worked on a stage version of Much Ado About Nothing together in 2011, and David also cropped up in Catherine's sketch show The Catherine Tate Show.

However, Catherine admitted she didn't think Donna would ever be able to return to Doctor Who after her memory of their adventures in the Tardis had to be wiped because the powers the Time Lord had given her threatened to overwhelm her brain.

She said: "Unfortunately I think Donna's storyline would prevent her from coming back. Any memory of the Doctor, of her time travelling with him, and the adventures she embarked on, would kill her. So I can't see a storyline being able to bring her back."

 

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.