my feeling is that the people in fandom who do know have been told they cannot announce it until such and such a date.
That sort of senario could very easily be the case when it comes to a public announcement from someone whose function it is to relay news to fandom at large. But I wasn't only referring to someone who would necessarliy fall into that category.
Maybe things are in flux. I doubt it and would love to be proven wrong.
Well, don't get me wrong, I think we're on the same basic page when it comes to the pilot's chances. But, you know, it is possible that we're simply being too realistic for our own good. Yesterday's TV Week article would seem to indicate that, at least to the point it was written, the DS pilot's fate was still in flux. And combining that with a seeming unwillingness of people to even privately commit in as many words that the pilot is dead, I'm willing to concede that, no matter how slim I might consider the possibility, there may actually be more hope than what otherwise might be assumed from the various other reports we've been getting.
As I've said, only time will tell...