Granted, I don't follow Doctor Who as closely as some, but I do keep up with a number of people who do follow it quite closely. So, when I was talking with some friends tonight, and I mentioned that I'd been seeing on a number of usually-reliable friends' livejournals that the new Doctor had been named, I was surprised to hear them say that there's nothing firm so far, and that all names are merely speculation.
Well, I dug back into the entries I'd seen, and one of them pointed to
a BBC article talking about the new Doctor. I have a suspicion that, if the BBC names the new Doctor, this is really the guy who's actually going to be playing The Doctor.