As we approach the launch of series three of Doctor Who, there’s still good news to share about the previous season…
The Hugos — the pre-eminent awards in the Science Fiction universe — have just announced their nominations, and Doctor Who has once again scooped 3 of the 5 nominations in the category of dramatic presentation (short form).
The episodes that have been nominated are:
School Reunion by Toby Whithouse, which saw former companion Sarah Jane Smith reunited with the Doctor, causing Rose to question whether her time travelling would one day come to an end;
The Girl in the Fireplace by Steven Moffatt, with the Doctor chasing a cadre of clockwork robots through various time zones in pre-revolutionary France in order to save Madame de Pompadour from having her brain cut out and inserted into the central computer of a stricken spaceship;
Army of Ghosts & Doomsday by Russell T Davies, with alternate universe Cybermen taking over the Earth, hordes of Daleks in the skies above Canary Wharf, and leaving Rose and her family stranded in a parallel world with no chance of ever returning.
With only one episode each of Battlestar Galactica and Stargate-SG1 in competition, I’m not only predicting that Doctor Who will win once again…but it will be a second victory for Steven Moffatt, who took home the prize last year for his fabulous double bill of The Empty Child & The Doctor Dances.
The Doctor Who machine just keeps on rolling…unstoppable! 
