You just don’t know how frakkin’ stoked I am for the return of Doctor Who.

So.Frakkin.STOKED!

And it doesn’t make the heart palpitations stop now that I can watch videos like this:

and this:

It Begins, indeed. BBC America is promoting the shit out of the premiere and rightly so. David’s Tennant finale episodes, while not the best written, was the most emotional moment of television for me. The last twenty minutes in tears while the viewers and all of the Whoniverse said goodbye to that incarnation of the eponymous Doctor was both depressing and enlightening. Depressing because David Tennant was one hell of a Doctor. Enlightening because we got a glimpse of Matt Smith as the Doctor and because the last time we got a new Doctor, we got David Tennant. Don’t get me wrong, Christopher Eccleston will always have a soft spot in my heart, but if Matt Smith lives up to the writing of Steven Moffat, we will have a newly crowned champion Doctor.

April 17, 2010 is not that far away. As we think about the previous seasons of Doctor Who, I remember Steven Moffat penned episodes in particular. The one that comes to mind in particular is the two parter The Library/The Forest of the Dead. Maybe not the best of the Moffat written episodes (it’s a toss up between Blink and The Family of Blood for me) but my favourite for the Doctor Who continuum.

PS, this is the best season of Doctor Who, with the best companion ever. She got SHAFTED.

ANYway. The new series, with Matt Smith taking Tennant’s spot, shows us Alex Kingston (aka Professor River Song) in the trailer. You hear her voice and she is one of the speakers in this BBC America clip about the Dalek.

Now, I just said that Donna Noble, the series 4 companion of the Doctor, did not get a great end. It was okay. She married some bloke who will be good to her, but she doesn’t remember a damn thing and that makes me mad. Don’t get me wrong. I respect the work of Russell T. Davies and his direction for the last 4 seasons, but it broke my heart to see Donna end the way she did. However, my disappointment aside, the good writing from the season and the superb acting on the part of Catherine Tate makes her the best companion in my book.

That means Karen Gillan, playing the new Doctor’s new companion, has some big shoes to fill. But then again, haven’t they all. Everyone who fell in love with Rose and cried their eyes out when she was saved from the void but lost the Doctor (seemingly) forever were not eager to accept Martha. And after Martha, especially with the Catherine Tate Christmas special fresh in our minds, we wondered if Davies was out of his mind. But as season 4 went on, when we realized that the tension that was created by the other companions didn’t exist for Donna, we were able to explore who the Doctor really was. What will Amy Pond add to that discovery, I wonder?

I am heartened, however, by one line in the first trailer in this post. “They’re afraid of me.” That is the Doctor I know and have grown to love. If Steven Moffat holds up his end of the writing deal, and Matt Smith is as able as Moffat claims, then we are in for some damn good television. Well, in my opinion, anyway.

Sounds a bit ominous, doesn’t it?

Season One of Torchwood was our “out of season” connection to Doctor Who. Despite the fact that there were some badly written episodes, there were also some gripping ones. Owen falling in love with a woman out of time, and Suzie Costello coming back from the dead. Her exposition on life after death was riveting. Season 2 was better, leading to the game changing ending which we were still reeling from when the end of the 4th season of Doctor Who came along. So there is eager anticipation as the “Season 3” miniseries, Children of Earth begins here on BBC America starting July 20, 2009.

The Children of Earth miniseries was probably the best written of all seasons of Torchwood. I’m not going to give anything away, but this is the kind of drama, anticipation, heartache and triumph that should be in any well written drama. Now we wait for the remaining of the 2009 Specials for Doctor Who and the Sarah Jane Adventures, where we get to lay eyes on our beloved David Tennant once more with Sarah Jane Smith as his companion before he goes out forever (or not) and Matt Smith takes over the role as Doctor for the 2010 fifth season. If you like scifi (and who doesn’t?) then you have to tune in to the Torchwood miniseries. Even if you haven’t seen the previous ones, you’ll only be a little lost, but you’ll be a lot entertained.

News in the Whoniverse is that BBC America will carry the last episodes of David Tennant as the Doctor, proving that the soon to be SyFy network dropped the frakkin’ ball and that BBC America loves us.

Thanks to BBC America, I won’t have to pay for DVDs to traverse the Atlantic. Thanks to BBC America, I know I will see David Tennant go out in style. Thanks to BBC America, I will stay up to date on all things Who (that includes Torchwood, but will it also include the Sarah Jane Adventures, which I hear David Tennant’s Doctor will play a big part in this season?). We’ll even see Freema Agyeman’s Martha again, though not just as one of many companions rumoured to appear in the final Tennant episode of Doctor Who before Matt Smith takes over, but also in Survivor, which follows the final 10% of survivors after a virus wipes out the rest of the population.

Yay!

Also, in other Doctor Who news, Matt Smith, the soon to be new Doctor, has his companion. Lovely Scottish actress Karen Gillan has been cast in the role and even if you didn’t already know this, I love redheads, so I’m looking forward to this new season even as I wish a pox on the heads of those who are taking Tennant away from me.

Although that’s how I felt when I lost Eccleston, so I’m getting prepared to like Matt Smith’s Doctor. I already know I like his companion.

Hit the comments section to tell me how you feel about the rapidly changing Whoniverse.

Find out more about Doctor Who’s move to BBC America here and start your information search for Karen Gillan here.