Paul McGann has revealed that he is so eager for an Eighth Doctor spin-off that he actually signed the petition.

“I signed it! But keep it under your fez”, he said at the Comicpalooza panel. Too late.

He elaborated: “Of course I would do it! Should anything like that ever happen again I can only assume it would happen like it did last year – there’d be a call saying ‘could you start on Monday?'”

He adds: “The thing is, I’m warmed up now. I could do it now. When we got to shoot The Night of the Doctor I was so glad for the audience. I got to keep my hand in, so to speak, because I felt like I knew what I was doing.

“The second I put the kit on I felt like the Doctor.”