I'd like to see him back, don't care what other people think.(You're right! You're wrong! You don't understand the show! You're dumb! blah blah blah ).
Doubt he would come back fulltime though because he's married with 1 child and another due this year I believe, so I reckon the schedule would be too much for him.

I doubt very much if David Tennant would want to do it TBH, but if he did, people would watch for sure. However, I don't think that Matt Smith is the problem - he's very believable as the Doctor, the show just doesn't have the same energy since the whole production/writing team was changed. I'd have loved to have seen Matt as the Doctor when RTD was still at the helm.

I don't think the new companion will help either. She's not
very likeable. Amy Pond wasn't particularly likeable but she had something about her and was vulnerable. The new one seems far too much of a know all.

It's not the David Tennant show, it's Doctor Who for god's sake. There are other ways for the show to improve it's ratings if things start to go downhill, it doesn't need to resort to cartwheeling over the shark by having Eleven regenerate back into his previous incarnation.

I quite agree. And I wasn't advocating Tennant's return, even if, on balance, I did prefer him to Matt Smith. But that's purely subjective. I was merely highlighting that the suits and bean counters in TV will always play safe, if possible.

Like you, I don't think Matt Smith is the problem - if, indeed, there is a problem - but I have to disagree about Amy. I loathed her and much prefer Clara.

Dr. Who nuked the fridge when Hartnell morphed into Troughton - but did it very successfully. I'm not sure it would be that much of a stretch for the audience if Eleven became Ten. Whether one would want it is another question altogether.

No, it wouldn't be that much of a stretch. This is sci-fi / fantasy, where characters die and come back frequently.

But it would go against what Doctor Who stands for and would show a lack of originality and creativity.

I agree with you here, Amy was a wholly dislikeable character played by a poor actress. And as much as I liked Rory, the Amy/Rory partnership was pretty awful. Rory on his own would have been fine; Clara on her own is fine.

Anyone watching 'The Politician's Husband' with David Tennant?

I noticed that when he set up the fake twitter account to leak information he used the name "John Smith" he also seems to spend rather a lot of sleepless nights staring at quite a large crack in his ceiling.

I fully expect the reveal in the final episode to be that he's a fob watched Doctor sent back through a crack in time whose died his blonde like the Master.

Didnt he adopt Georgia's child from a previous relationship, so technically they will have 3 children eventually?

If he wanted to he could have stayed in the role but he wanted to take his ball and go when RTD left.

Have a look at this. A zoomable map of Britain with the most common surnames overlaid.

Pretty fascinating, actually, and shows how prevalent 'Smith' is as a name.

Who fans:

Argue that the 10th Doctor shouldn't be dwelt upon as Doctor Who is a show that looks forwards, not backwards.

Then spend months bitching and whining about the lack of classic Doctors in the 50th Anniversary....

Trollololololololololol

Not all of us.

I'm playing devil's advocate here but it's not quite the same. What the OP is calling for is Tennant to return full-time, what some classic series fans are calling for is the classic Doctors to make a one-off return for a special occasion in the show's history, the one occasion there should be no end of indulgence into the past.

Had the OP suggested any of the classic Doctors come back full-time, she probably would have got a similar reaction. The only possible exception I can imagine is Paul McGann, since he only appeared as The Doctor once.

Do you have the term "jump the shark" in Britain? OP, I suppose I admire your passion, but there's Doctor Who reinventing itself and then there's Doctor Who abandoning itself. This would be a wild contrivance that would betray most fans (perhaps all but one), and risk Who as an institution. This is precisely why I prefer the Classic series having died to Cartmel having had chance to implement his master plan.

This is my favorite example of writers from the classic series screwing with continuity as badly as any new Who writers ever have. For me it's like the Doctor being half-human in the TV Movie: I choose to ignore it ever happened. (If I were forced to acknowledge it, I'd choose to believe it's a rare ability among Time Lords: like a Human being double-jointed.)

Erm no, im no Troll!!! I have found it interesting to see what People would think about a possible Tennant return. Not the same Doctor Portrayed in the RTD era!!!!! Not going backwards, perhaps a side step???? If the Daleks, Cybermen and Weeping Angels can come back again and again, why cant a past Doctor??? doesnt mean the shows going backwards everytime they return, they just use ther imagination, and create a different story, scenario each time, and that shows creativity.

By the way, I LOVE Matt Smith as The Doctor. Equally as I do David Tennant, so there is no David Tennant fan club agenda here!!!!!!

You would probably get loads and loads of 10 fans complaining that 10 is different and shouting to bring back the old 10.

Also, even though the primary component is writing, I believe that a large part of the way that the character of the Doctor comes out is the actors giving their hearts into the character (and they get consulted on the stuff like what the Doctor should wear, which is one of the big parts of the characterization of the Doctor) and as much as DT is an excellent actor IMO, I am not sure if he were able to perform the character that much differently, because he had already found his Doctor in his first run.

Thats a fair point.

I first saw David Tenant in Bright Young Things as Ginger. He was great, and it's great movie. My friends and I still quote the drunken major and Colonel Blunt all the time. "Nonsense! I'm Colonel Blunt!" Classic!

I first saw him in the one about The Asylum, cant think of the name now. But his portrayl of Campbell was Brilliant, and he won an Award for it. Thats what I mean, his Range is fantastic. Did not see Broadchurch, as Murder Mysteries dont appeal to me, but hear he was good in that also.

In terms of the public image of Doctor Who, going back to the previous Doctor would be portrayed in the press as the BBC desperately trying to 'rescue' the show because the Smith era 'failed'. It would also make David look like a 'failure' who went back to his most successful role.

It would be bad for David's career and bad for the show.

He's a great actor, Emma Marie. As the Doctor I think he was best in those moments when he was both stern and empathetic--when he understood as no one else could that another character was doomed to some terrible fate or another (knowing a thing or two about terrible fates, and perceiving the quandary before anyone else could), and that there would be no other way (the "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry" moments). I think he also portrayed better than any other Doctor pure unbridled joy at the sort of thing you'd expect the Doctor to be carried away with.

But the Tenth Doctor died. I'm not one to disparage his farewell tour as some do. I think 10 was probably the most feeling Doctor to date, and why not depict how hard the transition of leaving a version of yourself would be? But as Ten himself would have said, everyone dies, and everything ends.

I agree about this, especially the joy part. On the other hand when he was portraying the Docor' s own pain, most of the time I felt like the pain he was portraying human and I just didn't feel like he was portraying 900+ years of pain as I do with Matt Smith though. Maybe when he was cradling the Master in his hands in Last of the Time Lords was an exception.

As for his departure, personally I didn't have an issue with portaying how hard it would be for him to leave a version of himself, but I wished for some character development, in which he would accept that "this song is ending, but the story never ends" in the end. But we didn't get that, even after he threw the temper tantrum with Wilf and then seemed to accept his fate we still got "I don't want to go" in the end? I just wish they would have him regenerate after his sene with Rose, which was sort of a poignant scene in itself (even though I dislike rose's character very much).

But the OP doesn't want to bring 10 back, but to have DT back to play a different Doctor. I already explained why I don't think it would work.