As many of you will know that many of the brilliant episodes of the current Doctor Who series have been written by Steven Moffett. It has now been revealed in Wired that Neil Gaiman, Author of Neverwhere, has been asked to write for the series. What joy that would bring, it is brilliant to see a series that has been so well written inviting yet another true artist to the fold! Please Neil, say yes!
(I have forwarded on this Blogs link to Neil Gaiman’s website so that he can see the support that the fan base has for this.)
Source and image source: http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/05/new-who-boss-ex.html
And from Neil Gaiman’s journal, the day before:
“I see from the internets that Rich Johnston’s carefully worded “Well, Neil and Steven Moffat had dinner, and Neil hasn’t said no, but there’s many slip between cup and lip…” thingummy on his rumour site became “It’s an open secret that…” when it was reported on Aint It Cool News and that’s now transmuted into “OMG NEIL IS WRITING DOCTOR WHO BEST NEWS EVER” on the next round of news sites, and most of my mail today (except for the one from the young man who wants to know how to get out of doing military service, which just left me flashing on the last part of Blackadder Goes Forth) is asking why I haven’t told everyone all about it…
Look, if it ever gets to the point where I know that I’m actually, definitely, for certain, writing an episode of Doctor Who, I’ll post it here. In big red letters. Or green. You’ll know when it happens, trust me. I may even get Maddy to write the entry for me, and include photographs of cats doing amusing things in it. It’ll be a proper blog post. Promise.”
That would be Gaiman, no N. Best to change the tag, if not the title, just so interested sorts can find this.
Oh, I find if you link to his blog or comment there he is (when time allows) very conscientious about returning the compliment.
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/