Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors actor, David Tennant has suggested that the future of Doctor Who is actually quite bright.

With the show going out to tender at some point this year, Tennant was asked to offer fans a bit of hope. And he did that by replying:

“Well, only that there’s nothing to indicate that it’s gone away. It’s just going to have a breath and come back in a different form and that’s probably quite exciting, I’d have thought. It might mean a bit of waiting, but luckily Big Finish exists! There will be plenty of Doctor Who stories.”

And Doctor Who is very likely to come back, so he’s right. Even if it doesn’t return any time soon (and the BBC has assured fans that it does have a future on TV), we’re sure some enterprising sorts will help revive it at some point.

Tennant looks back to 1989 as setting a precedent of sorts, in that it did of course come back in both 1996 and 2005, so he went on:

“The fire may have been dimmed slightly, but it certainly never went out. It was always burning fiercely somewhere. I think this will provide a new energy, a new direction. Until you have evidence to the contrary, you should regard it as a positive.”

Most parties involved in Doctor Who do reckon it’ll be back in the near future — except writer and actor, Mark Gatiss who implied that a break might do it some good.

It probably would be beneficial for the franchise too: stepping back for a bit allows for new creative decisions that should ensure Doctor Who will still be here in another 60 years.