It's exactly five years today (Friday 26th September 2003) that the BBC Doctor Who website added a tiny black box to its frontpage, with the news that Doctor Who was coming back!!!! That's five years in which Doctor Who as we knew it has gone through an almost unbelievable change, and is now one of the top shows in the country.
So do you remember where you were when you first heard the news that a new series was coming? What did you think? Did you expect anything like what we got?
For myself, I remember coming home that Friday, logging onto the BBC site as usual, and not reading the announcement properly at all. I saw the announcement that it was coming back, and kinda thought it was a web thing, or a repeat season, or yet another interminable movie rumour... it was a few minutes before it sunk in, at which point I emailed bruv with the tagline "HE'S BACK, AND IT'S ABOUT TIME!"