David Tennant and Billie Piper would love to return to Doctor Who for a cinematic movie.

When asked whether they’d consider starring in a film version of the show, both immediately said they would, with Piper in particular saying she was always suggesting it anyway. At the LA Comic Con, Billie said:

“I loved it that people went to see the last Doctor Who episode in the cinema. I just loved that. I would love the Doctor Who experience on the big screen. They’re sort of like films anyway. But yeah, I’d do that. Wouldn’t you?”

And David replied:

“Oh, for sure, yeah. We’re available!”

Piper is referring to The Reality War, which was screened in cinemas across the UK, and which ended with Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor regenerating into a character who may or may not be the Sixteenth Doctor, played by Billie Piper, as something of a last-minute decision by showrunner, Russell T Davies.

And the future of the show is up in the air, with comparatively few enthusiastic about the next Doctor being yet another face we’ve already seen (though that’s nothing against Piper herself, who was great as Rose Tyler, companion to the Ninth and Tenth Doctors). So yes, this might be a decent time for a Doctor Who film to show that the franchise still has a future. If not that, then maybe a special to tide people over and get us out of this mess.

But there have been rumblings about a movie for decades now (we even got a couple of them with Peter Cushing in the 1960s), so there’s no real reason to think that now is any more likely than at any point in the past…