David Tennant’s last show as Doctor Who is going to be emotional, writer Russell T Davies has warned.

The 38-year-old actor is handing over the Tardis to newcomer Matt Smith this December after five years in the role.

Russell told BBC Breakfast on Thursday: “At Christmas… I warn you now get your Kleenex out and your tissues.”

He continued: “We finished the episode yesterday and we were crying our eyes out. It’s very lovely, powerful stuff, it’s David Tennant at his absolute finest.”

Commenting on how so many viewers have “fallen in love” with the character over the years, Russell said: “I think the doctors themselves have something to do with it.

“We just stand back and get the cameras rolling.”

Russell is leaving the show at the same time as Tennant, but said his next project would not be another revival.

He said: “I’ve relaunched and rewritten my favourite show in the world, nothing else could ever compare, so I wouldn’t do anything else, I wouldn’t relaunch anything else but I think people should.

“Doctor Who’s proved how alive these things can become for a new generation so stories should never die.”

Russell will be replaced as the programme’s lead writer and executive producer by Steven Moffat.

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Excl: He’s not saying, but… yes.

Rumours have been flying around for the past couple of weeks that David Tennant – whose tenure as Dr. Who is, of course, coming to an end – was set to join Simon Pegg in John Landis’ upcoming movie about the infamous grave-robbers, Burke & Hare.

So, naturally, when Tennant bounded onto the red carpet at last night’s London Film Festival screening of his new movie, Glorious 39, we asked him about his potential involvement.

“Where do these things come from?” he said, shouting to be heard over the cacophony of cheers and screams from the residents of Whoville. But the sly smile and the glint in his eye indicated that the rumours are true. So, are they?

“I don’t like to jinx things by talking about them before they’re done, you know what I mean? But,” he said, knowingly, “John Landis is a legend.”

So, take it how you will, but we’re saying that that’s as close as we’re going to come to a confirmation until there actually is a confirmation. So, Who fans, rejoice, for your boy is hitting the big screen.

Burke & Hare were two Ulster-born Scots who provided cadavers for Edinburgh physician, Dr. Robert Knox, via less-than-legal means in 1827 and 1828. Their story has been told on screen before, notably in the 1960 Peter Cushing movie, The Flesh And The Fiends, and in disguised form as Timothy Dalton vehicle, The Doctor And The Devils, in 1985.

Pegg – who is apparently down to play William Burke – and Tennant, who’s marked for William Hare, should make a great team, and if Landis can recapture his best black comedy form, this should make for a little belter of a movie. The only question that remains is: who will play Knox?

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There you have it, David’s word on the matter.

Landis’ movie Burke and Hare will star comedy actor Simon Pegg as Burke and Doctor Who’s David Tennant has just been confirmed in the role of William Hare when shooting begins at Ealing Studios in London next year.

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