From the "Cool if True" department

Eddie Izzard to play the new doctor who (but consider the source)

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003452301,00.html

The BBC themselves say however that it'll be Richard E Grant or Alan Davies. Personally my order of preference is Eddie Izzard or Richard E Grant to play (in that order) and for Alan Davies to be consumed by space parasites.