The Next Doctor News and more!

David Tennant will not be returning to play Hamlet before Christmas because of a back injury. He's going to have an operation for a slipped disc on Thursday, said his enforced absence was hugely disappointing. His understudy Edward Bennett, who received standing ovations on Monday and Tuesday, will continue to stand in. But where does that leave next years Doctor Who TV movies? Will Tennant be well and able enough to star in them? After all there is always a lot of action and running. Could this result in an early regeneration? Less action? Or Perhaps Tennant borrowing Davros's Chair?
Russell T Davies says... "This new Doctor is absolutely NOT a conman. I had to wrestle for a long time with bringing these two characters together. Specifically - why don't they recognise each other? The Doctor has clearly said in the past that he can sense other Time Lords, so that even the Master had to be hidden in human form. But then Time Crash came to my rescue - thank you, Steven Moffat! Because in that, the Fifth Doctor very clearly doesn't recognise the Tenth Doctor, even when he's standing in the TARDIS. Which then suggested to me that Time Lords are now very good at spotting each other.... except for future versions of themselves! Theres obviously some sort of Blinovitch Effect at work, or something. And that simple idea of Steven's opened up this whole plot for me and allowed me to write it. Of course, there's then the mystery of why David Morrisseys Doctor doesn't recognise the Tenth, but thats the point - as you'll see, the whole story focuses on that. What terrible things have happened, to make him forget?" RTD also confirms that next years second special will be shot outside the UK! Also, in a trailer on YouTube it shows David Morrisey reading a diary? Hmmm... perhaps the Doctor's diary like the one in the library.