h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3140786.stm

It's odd. This news should have filled me with an almost transcendant joy but... Perhaps I've been disappointed too many times and I'm now convinced that it's never going to happen.

However, it really does now look like it will happen. Jimster (who's known about this for ages, the scamp) was positively bouncing when I saw him earlier. And the fact that it's Russell T Davies writing it makes me very optimistic - I've been wanting him to write Doctor Who ever since I saw 'Dark Season' so I'm confident he'll do a fine job.

Who knows - if they spend the same kind of money on it that they spend on (say) Walking with Dinosaurs then it might even look good.

I guess the campaign to cast your favourite actor as the Doctor starts here.

It's doubly strange that this news should break today, but unfortunately, I'm sworn to secrecy about the other news I heard this morning, which is not entirely unrelated to Doctor Who...

cautious "YAY"

Other news? I'm intrigued, and I'm probably best remaining that way on pain of having my broadband line taken away.

Given the previous failure to reinstate Doctor Who, we'll just have to settle for believing it when we see it then - unless the BBC can manage the time-travelling feat of getting an episode back here for us to view in advance of it actually being made.

Just a thought.
“I'm sworn to secrecy about the other news I heard this morning, which is not entirely unrelated to Doctor Who...”

This sounds like a good guessing game for a thread.

That's probably not a good idea given that other bits of the BBC are currently in trouble for encouraging or engaging in guessing games. This one might seem mostly harmless but there's the remote possibility that it might get Jim into trouble. Then again, he probably shouldn't have started it with such a blatant hint if he was seriously concerned about secrecy.