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[daibhidc]

Following on from my complaint about the lack of Doctor Who April Fool spoofs this year, the new DWM makes an interesting point.

A good spoof has to be superficially plausible (to some extent), but get more unikely the more you think about it, so that when you learn it's a spoof you say "Ah, yes, obviously!" And in a world where the Daleks fought the Cybermen in a story featuring Barbara Windsor playing Peggy, that last part is shot to hell. Anything is a perfectly plausible story.

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New theatre for the Doctor
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The day before yesterday, it was revealed that the next Dr Who season will see the show taken in a new, and unexpected direction. The renowned film director Ken Loach has been brought in to write and direct, and it is expected that there will be less aliens, robots and other strange beings in the new series.

"The Doctor's been running around saving the world for ages," mr Loach said in a statement. "It's time he settled down. We'll tell a new story, one that fans have been wanting to see for decades, but which has been overlooked in all the excitement of Daleks and what-have-you."

The premise, in short, is that the Doctor retires, and attempts to live like a normal man. He marries Rose (played, again, by Billie Piper) and moves in with her in a shabby council flat in Sheffield. We'll see how he struggles to assimilate, get a job, and when that fails, get benefits. Domestic tension builds as he turns to drink, and a re-appearance of Donna leads the retired time-lord to infidelity, to which Rose responds by throwing him out, before seeking solace in the arms of Captain Jack, who then leaves her for Martha, but not until he's made her pregnant with twins. In desperation, Rose invites the Doctor back into her life, despite his newly acquired drug addiction, and when her drinking starts a premature birth, the Doctor's trembling hands aren't stable and strong enough to save her, leaving him as a widower and sole parent.

In the season finale, we'll see him fight with the social services for the guardianship of the twins, and when he loses the fight, he joins his wife by hanging himself in a long, colourful scarf.

"I think this will really shock the viewers," Ken Loach said. "It's real, it's gritty, and it's a story that is relevant to people of Britain today."

Russel T. Davies refused to comment. His assistant informed us he was in a meeting with John Barrowman, and "has his hands full".

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LOL! Okay, almost anything...