London
(ANI):
TV
producer
Russell
T
Davies
has
revealed
that
his
team
had
to
cancel
a
'Dr
Who'
Christmas
special
after
the
show's
legend
David
Tennant
refused
to
star
alongside
British
author
J.
K.
Rowling.
He
said
that
the
idea
has
had
to
be
scrapped
in
order
to
keep
Tennant,
37,
happy.
Davies
had
to
ditch
his
idea
of
writing
the
Harry
Potter
creator
into
this
year's
Christmas
Day
episode
as
a
gift
to
young
fans,
after
Tennant
declared
he
thought
the
idea
sounded
like
a
spoof.
Had
the
show
been
allowed
to
go
on,
the
episode
would
have
featured
Rowling's
imagination,
a
world
full
of
magic
and
wizards,
which
turns
into
reality
after
she
is
attacked
by
a
giant
space
bug.
"Zap!
JK's
imagination
becomes
real!
A
world
of
Victorian
magic
replaces
the
present-day
world," the
Sun
quoted
Davies
explaining.
"The
Doctor
arrives
and
has
to
battle
through
a
world
of
witches
and
wizards,
with
wands
and
spells,
to
reach
JK
Rowling
at
the
heart
of
it
all,"
he
said.
But
when
it
was
known
that
tenth
Time
Lord
Tennant
was
not
in
favour
of
the
idea,
Davies
emailed
his
bosses
about
it.
"David
doesn't
like
the
JK
idea.
He
thinks
it
sounds
like
a
spoof
so
we've
paused
slightly,
wondering
whether
to
win
him
round
or
just
abandon
something
he"s
not
going
to
be
happy
with," he
had
written.
A
very
unhappy
Davies
had
to
do
away
with
the
idea,
revealing
to
his
colleagues
that
Tennant's
happiness
comes
first.
"We've
got
to
keep
him
happy.
He
keeps
us
happy.
Plus
he
might
be
right.
So
that
idea
has
parked
itself," he
added.