Doctor Who news - K9, Sarah Jane, and... Giles????

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Copied in its entirity from the_magician since I know my flist has a lot of differences from his:

K9 to return for new Doctor Who!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4179702.stm

Robot dog K9 will be reunited with Doctor Who in the new series after 24 years apart, say the show's producers. K9, who helped Tom Baker's Time Lord between 1977 and 1981, will join new Doctor David Tennant for one episode.

The show, to be screened on BBC One next spring, sees the team investigate sinister events at a modern-day school.

It will co-star Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor Anthony Head and Elisabeth Sladen, who is returning as 1970s Doctor's assistant Sarah Jane Smith.

K9 and Sarah Jane will join the Doctor and his current sidekicks, Rose and Mickey, in a fight against the evil Krillitanes.

Comments

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There's a big, geeky part of me that's going "YAY!" I used to adore K-9. But there's another bit of me that's going, "uh-oh." The first series worked really well without doing too much in the way of referring to the original series. K-9 should appeal to the kiddies, which is the new show's stated primary audience, but I'm concerned that they may be wandering down the self-referential path that eventually drowned the original series in fanwankery.