To the list of utterly stellar single-story guest performances in new era Doctor Who – that already includes the likes of Derek Jacobi, Julian Bleach, Carey Mulligan and David Morrissey – we must surely add Tony Curran. In an episode where all the advance publicity concerned the identity of the writer – possibly the most independently famous name so far to write for the series – attention in the aftermath surely falls squarely on the guest character whose name, for only the second time in the show’s history, is the leading word of the story’s title.

And even those who already have figures of nine out of the eleven Doctors can’t help but get massively, massively excited.

Er, not here, unfortunately – if I’d wanted to review it for this site, I’d have had to pay for it. So instead, the often-cited-by-BBC-for-anything-related-to-Who-nowadays site Den of Geek got me a free copy, and I reviewed it there. If, you know, you’re bothered. But it’s quite a good little book, anyway.

Well fuck me: The BBC have announced that an RTD-helmed fourth series of  Torchwood is going forward, and will be co-produced by BBC Wales and American network Starz Entertainment. Barrowman and Myles will reprise their roles, and the series will contain ten episodes set in various locations worldwide including Wales and, haha, the US.

Beyond that there’s not a lot else we know about the new series. Still, if the show can hold on to the level of brilliance it reached for Children of Earth then everybody wins.

After Simon Nye’s storming success with Amy’s Choice, Moff’s other new writer taken from the sitcom stable – Richard Curtis, no less – gets a crack tonight with Vincent and the Doctor, which all previews point to being excellent.  Why don’t you tell us what you reckon and we’ll take it from there, shall we?

I have a confession to make: the name “Chris Chibnall” does not make my blood run, erm, cold.

Maybe it’s my reservations about judging any writer’s work when RTD was known for rewriting nearly every single script anyway. Maybe it’s because I’ve blanked out the entirety of 42. Or maybe it’s because Chibnall was responsible for one of my favourite episodes of Life on Mars. Whatever the reason, I wasn’t going into this pair of episodes with an immense sense of dread.

Audio maestros Big Finish have had their Doctor Who license renewed for another year, giving them the rights to produce more classic Who audioplays up until 2012. There is, of course, no point in them asking for an extension beyond that point because as we all know the world is going on end on December 21st, 2012. So that ought to save them some money.

Actually that was a joke.

Nick Briggs also mentions in the announcement that BF are still in talks with Tom Baker, which is promising.

Go go go. Go go go go go go go go go. Get it now, now now now.

Fuck knows why it’s gone online now when it’s not supposed to be out until Saturday, but let’s not complain. Give it a CRACK, and come and tell us what you think, and we’ll have a review or some sort up ourselves at some point over the next week.

(Unless you’ve got a Mac, in which case you’ve got to wait until the 15th. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.)