David Tennant has hit out at the Conservative government over their plans to force broadcasters to make produce “distinctively British” TV shows.
In a new interview, Tennant, who played the Doctor from 2005 to 2010, questioned the UK government’s need for broadcasters to produce programmes rooted in Britishness and whether it had a more sinister meaning.
Tennant can next be seen in a new TV adaptation of Around the World in Eighty Days, which will begin on the BBC from Boxing Day.
Perhaps that’s a question they should ask themselves, rather than trying to blame it on the television industry.”