Vent of Hearing

Dirk Shada's Detective Agency

So, it appears they are going to remake Shada. I've got mixed feelings about this.

One one hand, cool. The infamous Douglas Adams unfinished Doctor Who episode, finally broadcast. BBCi is also a good experiment in future broadcasting ideas, and getting Paul McGann involved is a clear coup.

One the other, as Neil Gaiman points out, it is only an audio with added graphics, not a video release and production. It is not new Doctor Who. It may be seen as another nostalgia fest rather than the birth of a future new series.

I have to see Doctor Who as the past now. The book series is great, but clearly a different beast entirely. "It's Doctor Who, but not as we know it" Doctor Who is now the subject of fun on programs such as "It's only TV, but I like it"; Phil Jupitas laughing at another cheaply made 70s program.

Basically, I'm saying the BBC should be making good science fiction, not Doctor Who. If the good science fiction happens to be Doctor Who, then we've had our cake and are munching away on it. Making Doctor Who for the sake of it, is only going to fail.