Good news! Next week sees a Dalek back on tv, in the new Dr Who series [news.bbc.co.uk]. Dalek’s are always fun. No longer confounded by simple stairways – not since Sylvester McCoy’s incarnation – the only problem to them now is a door that’s just not quite wide enough for the Dalek to move through.

It looks like David Tennant is to be the next Doctor Who [news.bbc.co.uk], taking over after the end of the current run. I reckon that the series is going quite well. I’ve not seen viewing figures, but I’ve not seen too many people grumbling about it, either.

It really is a case of Doctor, who, now as the current Doctor Who has announced his intention not to do the next series after the airing of only a single episode. Eccleston apparently doesn’t want to be typecast into the role. Speculation already abounds as to who will replace him in the next season [...]