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Scream Of The ShalkaScream of the Shalka was a flash-animated serial based on the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. It was produced to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of the series and was originally posted in six weekly parts from 13 November to 18 December, 2003 on BBCi's Doctor Who website. The serial was written by veteran television writer Paul Cornell, with Richard E. Grant providing the voice for the Ninth Doctor and Derek Jacobi as the voice of an android made in the image of The Doctor's old enemy, the Master. This performance followed years of rumours that Grant (among many others) would play the Doctor in a film or new series, and indeed he had appeared as the Tenth "conceited" Doctor in the Comic Relief special Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death in 1999. Also appearing in a cameo role was actor and Doctor Who fan, David Tennant, who as of April 2005 is in discussion with the BBC about taking the role of the Tenth Doctor in the ongoing television series. With the news of the new series of Doctor Who returning to BBC One, plans for a sequel were scrapped and the Richard E. Grant Doctor consigned to unofficial status since the new television series will feature the adventures of another Ninth Doctor (played by Christopher Eccleston). Grant's incarnation of the Time Lord (often referred to as the "REG Doctor" or the "Shalka Doctor" by fans) has since appeared in an online short story, "The Feast of the Stone" by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, though no further such stories seem planned. A novelisation of this story was published in 2004, the first novelisation of a Doctor Who serial (the 1996 television movie notwithstanding) in nearly a decade. (ISBN 0563486198) External links
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