BBC To Revive Doctor Who Next Year

Jordan writes: "Orange Today is reporting that the BBC has hired a scriptwriter from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to work on a new Doctor Who series, in celebration of the show's 40th anniversary. And Buffy's Anthony Head, who plays Giles, may be up for the role of the doctor." Update: 07/03 12:27 GMT by T : LoadStar writes: "The Beeb has an official denial that a new Who series is in the works with members of the Buffy production team, as reported yesterday on Slashdot. They report 'Whilst the Cult team quite like the idea of Tony Head as the Doctor in a show guided by members of America's finest fantasy production team, the BBC aren't currently making any such plans.'"

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Digging up classics and murdering them VIII

[bovril]

Somewhere in a Studio Boardroom...

Exec1: Hey, here's an idea... Let's get George Lucas and ILM to remake Plan 9 From Outer Space. We can get M. Night Shyamalan to rework the script and a get a few big name stars in there.

Exec2: No no no, we need to make another movie based on a comic book.

Exec3: Why don't we come up with something original. Y'know, like a new story, new characters...

[blank stares all round]

Exec3: ...or not. Let's get back to that Dr Who concept.

The inevitable question...

[Cutriss]

Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of Daleks?

In a dark room, from a pile of pizza boxes and makeshift rackmounts, hundreds of nodes start croaking through their motherboard speakers: Exterminate!