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OncomingStorm12th wrote: Can we get a quote on that?

From the article "No one can hear you SCREAM" in DWM 336:

"The Ninth Doctor in a story that sets its sights on the future and provides a starting point for ongoing adventures without reformatting the show. Traditional but original, new monsters that behave like Doctor Who monsters should, and a new Doctor with a new way of doing things who's still very much the Doctor we know and love" - Paul Cornell

Maybe even broadcast on television - just like like how proper Doctor Who used to be. Actually, according to BBCi, this is proper Doctor Who.

"It's a new medium, a new start for Doctor Who. No one knows what the next step is going to be." - James Goss

Also in DWM 336:

After Eight

He came back to life before your eyes. But now he's regenerated - and no one thought to tell him. Benjamin Cook caught up with Paul Mcgann to mourn the passing of the Eight Doctor and pass judgement on his usurper [Richard E Grant].

In an interview with Justin Richards in DWM 338:

"My thought was that it would be nice to do 'Ninth Doctor' books within the Past Doctors line - there really isn't enough in Shalka to kick off a whole new strand, although it might have been possible if we'd been able to do one extra book every quarter in its own sub-range" - Justin Richards

The intent during production was most definitely that the story was set within the DWU. If only for a month, Richard E Grant was undeniably The Ninth Doctor. If COMIC: Genesis of Evil remains a valid source after Genesis of the Daleks, why can't Shalka remain a valid source after Rose. We can't go around saying "all media have equal weight" if we only cover the popular stuff.