Creature of Mad Enthusiasms

I read the Virgin New Adventures... and most of the current scriptwriters wrote them. You know the gag in Remembrance of the Daleks where Ace turns on the television? It got picked up in Mark Gatiss's book "Nightshade" bigtime. And I think it's totally what they'd do in the new series; not a Timelord helping save the Earth, but the actor who plays The Professor in "Professor X" being called on to play the part of the real thing and save his home planet. Heck, it might even be a story based on Nightshade, because that was largely the plot of Nightshade, as I recall. And, IIRC, Gatiss does have at least one script this coming season.