Romeo and ... Brittney? All Right.

These names - Romeo and Brittney - kept coming up on my newsfeeds over the last couple of days. Given how overused the name Romeo is these days, and attaching no special significance to the name Brittney, I skipped them. Most of them.

Turns out that Romeo and Brittney is to be a new "literate teen comedy" in the style of Ten Things I Hate About You (which, as we know, was based on Shrew - and was also quite a success, spinning off it's own tv show).

Karen Gillan has landed a lead role as a time-travelling Juliet in David Baddiel's directorial debut, Romeo And Brittney.

The Scottish beauty, best known for playing Doctor Who's feisty companion Amy Pond, will play a high school teenager from New Jersey who finds herself travelling back in time to "mythical 13th-century Verona" in William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet, reported Deadline.

That could be cool. I love the whole Dr. Who connection, what with David Tennant and all.