stop the presses!

[rivendellrose]

I am deeply amused by the British web media's tendency to break Doctor Who related news earlier than the almighty Beeb wants them to. You just know someone over at the BBC office is going "hey, I know I'm not supposed to be looking at the Guardian on work time, but... they just broke our story a few hours early."

I like to think that this kind of thing gives Russell Davies heartburn. That's payback for all the times he's given me saccharine overdose. ;)

People with no fear of spoilers can wander on over to doctorwho to see the remains of this pertains to... or you can just wait a few hours until the Beeb gets around to making one of its patented "oops, someone leaked the info, so we'd better do a press release!" posts on the official site. ♥



I'll miss Tennant, but I expected this. It makes perfect sense, from a career standpoint, and I don't begrudge him the opportunity to do other things. Unlike how I feel with Eccleston, since he never does anything good with the opportunity. I do wish he'd waited another year so that we wouldn't lose a producer and a Doctor at once, but I'm looking forward to meeting whoever they get next, and finding a new Doctor to love.

Oh, and I could really smack Davies for his whole "DAVID COULD STAY FOREVER!!" thing a few weeks ago. Way to keep things politely under wraps, asshat.

And now, apparently, David has announced it on live TV. Go David. And that explains why the Guardian thought a few minutes ago was a good time to post the article... they must've just jumped the gun a bit.

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Edit: And now we appear to be playing a rousing game of "how many people can repost the news in the most annoying possible way?" over on doctorwho. Fantastic. I'll be over here, watching and waiting for us to turn up on Fandom_Wank. Again.