If you cast your mind back to Tennant’s last episode and that final sequence – that was both haunting and terribly emotional – we see him undergoing the regeneration into the 11th Doctor, Matt Smith.

Tennant played the role of the 10th Doctor from 2005 to 2010 and, in his final scene, he said: “I don’t want to go,” as he slowly disappears from the Tardis. Well, it seems like now we’ve all got what we wanted – a Tennant return.

While we don’t know any details about what these 60th-anniversary scenes will look like, we have a feeling they’re going to be special. We most recently saw Tennant in BBC One’s Around The World In 80 Days and he’s set to hit our screens soon in ITV’s Litvinenko and BBC’s upcoming thriller Inside Man. Hopefully, those can fill the Tennant-shaped void in our TV schedules until this awaited Doctor Who episode in 2023.

Watch this space for updates.

Doctor Who 60th anniversary: Yasmin Finney, David Tennant and Catherine Tate will star in the BBC series