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

[ffutures]

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

[doctor-toc.livejournal.com]

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.

[keswindhover.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Can he possibly be as primitive and pitiful as he once was, I ask? Or will he fly like the daleks?

[learnedhand-dj.livejournal.com]

Well, presuming that what they are bringing back is the K-9 Mark III, which was a gift for Sarah Jane, I can't see how any improvements could be made, seeing how no one was around with the know-how to make them. So, no flying K-9, unless, of course, Ten ends up making "modifications" early on in the ep.

Although I'm fine with the idea of Tony Head being on Doctor Who in any role, I'd love to see him end up as Eleven. Does anyone know whether David Tennant has signed on for the third series that the BBC has supposedly already commissioned?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

He's signed up for two series, I think.

Personally I always wanted to see Tony Head as The Master.

[booster17.livejournal.com]

*snerks* Funny you should say that.....

[sirernest.livejournal.com]

DWM says, Anthony Head's character is named Mr Finch