If this is accurate, I will have very high hopes – this could be a line as-delivered-by Tom Baker…

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Quote from the new Doctor Who:

“If you’re an alien, how come you sound like you’re from the North?”
“Lots of planets have a North”

…that said, one of the writers is Steven Moffat, he of Coupling fame, so there may be a risk of one or two slobbering letchmonkey characters… if we’re very very lucky.