Catherine Tate wants to return to ‘Doctor Who’ as her character Donna Noble.
The 49-year-old actress was Tenth Doctor David Tennant’s TARDIS companion in Series 4 after first appearing as the character in the 2006 Christmas Special and she then made a brief reappearance in Tennant’s final regeneration episodes in 2009.
Catherine would be keen to make a comeback to the BBC One sci-fi series to star opposite Thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker if she got a call from new showrunner Chris Chibnall.
Appearing on ‘The Jason Manford Show’ on Absolute Radio, she said: "It wouldn’t be up to me because you can’t just turn up on the set uninvited. They don’t like it. But that would be nice. I haven’t tried. Probably all the security would still remember me."
Although she wants to make a return to ‘Doctor Who’, Catherine hasn’t actually seen Jodie, 36, in her debut series.
She added: "I haven’t yet, only because I won’t understand them and it makes me feel inferior. But I know she’s brilliant because she’s fantastic."
However, Catherine has never been a committed Whovian and had never seen the programme before she accepted her part in it.
She said: "I’d not watched any of it. In fact, funnily enough the only episode I’d actually caught was when it had gone back to the 80s. So it was like a period piece, but I didn’t know that. I had turned it on and thought it’s exactly the same, the production values haven’t changed, it’s exactly the same as when I used to watch it. This is shocking!"
Catherine admits landing the part of Donna Noble was a "real game changer" in her career and life as it opened up a lot of new opportunities to her away from her comedy roots.
The former ‘Big Train’ star said: "It was a real game changer actually in my life, ‘Doctor Who’, because I got to meet these wonderful people and other things came of it. I absolutely loved it. It doesn’t make me a sci-fi aficionado, I still don’t know what goes on, and I wasn’t quite aware of what was going on to me."
You can listen to ‘The Jason Manford Show’ on Absolute Radio (absoluteradio.co.uk) every Sunday from 8am.
Catherine Tate wants to return to Doctor Who
