David Tennant is expected to be fit enough to start filming scenes for a Doctor Who special next month, just weeks after surgery on his back.

The show’s executive producer, Russell T Davies, said he was “hopeful” Tennant would start filming on 19 January.

“We’ll have to be very careful,” he said. “I don’t think we’ll be swinging him on a wire on his first day back.”

The actor’s back injury has forced him out of a London stage production of Hamlet until after Christmas.

Davies, who was speaking at the press launch of BBC One’s Christmas Doctor Who special, The Next Doctor, said there would be no re-writes on the next story to cut down on Tennant’s action scenes.

“No, there’s been none of that, and I think David would have told us by now because he’s read the first script.”

He said the production was insured in case Tennant was still recuperating when filming resumed.

Neither Tennant nor David Morrissey – who plays “The Next Doctor” – attended the launch.

The Christmas story sees them team up to battle a threat from the Cybermen in London on a snowy Christmas Eve in 1851.

The episode also stars Dervla Kirwan, who plays evil workhouse matron Miss Hartigan.

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