SOB! It’s not long now before we have to say goodbye to the best Doctor Who who’s ever stepped inside the Tardis – David Tennant.

But, although he will be regenerating into Matt Smith at the end of two Christmas episodes, that doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last of lovely David.

No doubt he’ll pop up in plenty of other dramas, not least reprising his RSC role of Hamlet, which he performed on stage at Stratford-upon-Avon, for a three-hour BBC2 film.

And if the acting work ever dries up, he has a future as a game show host. He put in some practice presenting a special edition of Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

To ease him in, it helps that David knows a couple of the guest panellists rather well.

One is Catherine Tate, who plays his Doctor Who sidekick Donna. We’ll see plenty of them over Christmas, as they both appear in the Doctor specials and David guest stars in her sketch show special, playing the Ghost of Christmas Present in Nan’s Christmas Carol, a spoof of the Dickens classic in which the foul-mouthed pensioner plays Scrooge,

Another Buzzcocks guest is Bernard Cribbins, who plays Donna’s grandfather and also features in the Doctor Who Christmas episodes.

They’re joined by Jamie Cullen, Jo Whiley and captains Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding.

Buzzcocks: The Doctor Who Special, BBC2, Wednesday, 10pm

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