Back a couple of issues ago in DWM, Russell T Davies made an off-handed comment on how they can’t seem to cast enough little people for an upcoming story. “Bloody Gringot’s and Wonka’s got them all” is how producer Phil Collinson puts it, referring to the fact that those of diminuitive size are being used for Harry Potter and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

The DWM anecdote gets reported as a story in one of the British papers, some of them featuring a more detailed quote from the parties involved. The story is then carried on the wire service, where it even gets put into the Toronto Star.

Now this story of small desire denied has become filler in this week’s Canadian edition of TV Guide, only by now the story has become enhanced to say that filming “was shut down” while they looked for actors of short stature (it wasn’t all according to all other reports) and the little people would be used to play the Daleks (they aren’t).

While it’s nice to see some coverage of the new series in TV Guide, one starts wondering if all reportage on the new series will be done by a game of broken telephone…