Dream King to write Who episode

[Mantichorus]

Award winning fantasy author Neil Gaiman (The Sandman comic series, the English language screenplay for Princess Mononoke, and the novels on which the major motion pictures Stardust and Coraline are based) has set aside an age of fan speculation during the SFX awards this weekend.

Speaking at the awards ceremony held by the British sci-fi magazine, where he collected Best Comic for Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?, Gaiman said the following:

Over the years SFX, and its readers and their votes in the polls, have always been very kind to me. I thought I’d return the favour with what used to be called, in journalistic circles when I was a boy, a scoop.

As anyone who’s read my blog knows, I’m a big fan of a certain long-running British SF TV series. One that I started watching -- from behind the sofa -- when I was three. And while I know it’s cruel to make you wait for things, in about 14 months from now, which is to say, NOT in the upcoming season but early in the one after that, it’s quite possible that I might have written an episode. And if I had, it would originally have been called “The House of Nothing”. But it definitely isn’t called that any more.