Series 5 confirmed? And a “gap year?”

After months of speculation, it appears that David Tennant will be reappearing in the TARDIS for not just a fourth season but also a fifth…with a bit of a twist.

Tennant has been slated to play Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which means that in 2009 there’ll be a gap year consisting of three specials, rather than a full slate of episodes. In 2010, the fifth season begins with another full ser of episodes. On the one hand, I’m disappointed that there won’t be much in the way of new Who for a year….but it beats the cavalcade of nothing we had for the previous decade.