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Anyone who regularly reads Pop Buzz UK will know I’m a massive fan of the current incarnation of Doctor Who. Not only do I try and write about the big news on the show, I read, comment, and link to Watching Doctor Who whenever possible.

So today’s news/announcement is virtual music to my ears, and ensures I will have some reason to turn the television on for the next few years at least.

Russell T Davies, the head honcho and chief writer behind the new Doctor Who, has reportedly promised fans that the series will be around for years to come.

He said:

“I reckon the long-term future of Doctor Who is safer now than any other drama on telly.”

“A secret history of phone calls, dinners and face-to-face conversations had led me to feel sure of its place on British TV.”

“For Doctor Who, there are many New Years to come. And that’s a promise.”

That’s quite a promise, and great news for the legions of Doctor Who fans who have been worried by the constant and unyielding rumours over the last few months that the sci-fi show may be canned for the second time in its history.

For starters, it’s been thought that the current Doctor, David Tennant, who is many people’s favourite doctor ever, may be about to quit at any moment, and that that may lead to the series coming to a premature end.

It seems now that even if Tennant does decide to leave after the next series, that it just means a new doctor good enough to fill his very sizeable shoes will have to be found.

We already know Tennant is staying for the whole of series 4, but even if he goes, it wouldn’t be the end of the world. After all, the franchise is bigger than any individual actor involved in it.

Russell T Davies also stated a while back that with the way the show is set up, it could carry on for another 20-30 years, even if he and his team of writers and directors weren’t personally involved.

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