YOU cannot have missed the multi-media blanket coverage given to the latest incarnation of a certain 900-year-old timelord with two hearts who travels through time and space in a telephone box. Yes, Doctor Who, in the human form of Christopher Eccleston, returned to our screens last night and Radio 2 was first off the blocks with a two-part in-house commercial - sorry, documentary - on the first series of the 21st century.
Project Who? (Tuesday, R2) was chock-full of interviews with BBC executives keen to take the credit for commissioning something that wasn't exactly a controversial, subversive or untested choice, plus chats with the writers, actors and designers all keen to praise each others' brilliance.
There was lots of enthusiasm and plenty of clips, including a good running gag about Eccleston's northern accent ("Lots of planets have a North," says his sidekick Rose, played by Billie Piper, defensively, whenever anyone queries why the alien sounds suspiciously like a Mancunian).
Project Who? was, quite simply, a 100 per cent shamelessly uncritical plug and I therefore shouldn't approve of a respectable network indulging in that sort of thing at all. Then again, it did make the show sound rather fabulous.
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