Chris Chibnall, the heir apparent to the Whovian tomato-target throne, has done quite a bit of work in TV. However, the quality has been, er... let's call it curate's egg. He was a major scriptwriter for the first two series of Torchwood, which were okay once they got going, but he's also worked on Camelot, a Starz-only show about King Arthur which somehow contrived to be worse than the BBC's Merlin, and an episode of Spooks: Code 9, which for fans of Section D is a show that did not happen ever you can't prove it what are those tapes you're holding in that hand near my flamethrower ha ha ha they'd better not be.

His work on Doctor Who has been similarly up and down. I absolutely loved "Dinosaurs On A Spaceship" because it felt like a Classic Who episode, unafraid of looking silly and with some really good jokes in it. However, he also made the "The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood" two-parter, which was really quite bad. All I'm saying is that Moffat at least had a few unalloyed hits under his belt before taking over the show.

Still, I wish Chibnall all the best for the future, and hopefully he won't do anything completely stupid. I mean, he'll probably do something stupid, this is Doctor Who we're talking about, it's part of the fun of the series, but hopefully the show under him won't be afraid to be entertaining and will be afraid of being portentous and doomy.

And hey, it might mean we get Caro Skinner back, so that'll be... something. =]

2017 had better well be worth the wait because that long of a dry spell is going to make fans very put-out if they don't deliver.