At last Russell T Davies has some dates for your diary he’d like to tell you about...

At last!

It’stime to GET EXCITED.

Here we gooooo! Come ON! (I’m going to use capitals this month, I LIKE them.)

Doesn’t it feel like ages since Doctor Who was on? Well, if we get this right, you’ll be spinning with Who-ness for years and years. If content is king, then we’ve got a right royal regal procession coming your way, so stand back! Fanfare! Trumpets! Ermine! Tiaras!

After months of hints and winks and sly little asides, it’s time for… well, okay, a few more hints and winks and blah-blahblah, but we’re almost there! And you’ve seen that lovely great big pre-Strictly trailer. The UNIT Tower with its built-in helipad on the 55ththFloor, I mean, get in! So much more is on the way this year, like Miriam Margolyes’s Meep, and the brand new Tardis interior, oh, and that terrifying scene with Sue, not to mention two celebrity historical figures thrown in for good measure, plus the sheer goddamn mystery of Special 2, and like a cherry on top, a genuine in-universe crossover with my ITV drama from earlier this year, Nolly, which is truly canonical and official, because I say so. I told Charlie Quinn, the Script Editor of Nolly, what I’d done, and he actually gasped, ‘It’s the RTD Universe!” Promote that man.