5 Reasons The Doctor Should Travel Back In Time And Leave Amy Pond in Neolithic Mesopotamia

Look. Doctor Who, despite its impressive lore, despite its extraordinary status in the hearts of grown-up telly addicts, is a kids’ show. Its plotlines are never clever enough to be called intricate, its monsters never scary enough to make an adult check under the bed before lights-out, and that’s absolutely fine. You have to be able to watch Doctor Who with the eyes of a child (preferably with the child still attached); it’s best enjoyed with a complete lack of cynicism and a big bowl of popcorn. But just as we can’t help getting swept away by the shenanigans of the Doctor and his sidekicks, we cannot but indulge in a little adult nitpicking. A lot of us have grown-up with Doctor Who. A lot of us take it delightfully seriously. Every Saturday night, on Twitter, the debate swells and splashes as the big kids take to t’internet to bond … There’s more

New trailer for Doctor Who!

This is rather special: Rather than a montage of clips, the new Who trailer is a self-contained fantasy sequence that synopsises the coming adventures of the 11th Doctor, Matt Smith. It also suggests a break with the overwrought Russell T. Davies cul-de-sac that Tennant’s last few outings became (stupid clicking gun, stupid jumping out of spaceship for no reason, stupid hungry Master, and so on). Matt Smith is going to be great, there’s definitely a Troughton air about him. I’m anticipating Karen Gillan as Amy Pond will be a wry foil without the Catherine Tate facial gymnastics. Thrilled to bits with this.