I've have been lured back to watching Dr. Who. It happened last Friday night.
I was settling in to watch the SciFi channel and noticed that they are now running a triple bill of Heroes, Dr. Who, and Battlestar Galactica. Now Heroes and BSG are both really good shows and I used to watch Dr. Who religiously (at least as a child and in college).
I was really happy to see that the scripts have come back to what they once were. The charm of Dr. Who is that it doesn't require a big budget - it's a show built on the imagination of the viewer and the writers. For the first time in years, I saw an episode that made me want to watch more.
Perhaps this particular Doctor works for me (I'm a big Tom Baker fan), or perhaps the script was just first-rate but I found myself glued to the plot, wondering how it was going to turn out.
I would wholeheartedly recommend the new show to those of you who have drifted away as I once had. It's no longer the longest running show on TV - I think it started in something like 1957 but it has had a couple of year hiatus. But the BBC has brought it back with some panache.