Series 6 So Far (March Update)
What do we know about Series 6 so far? Here’s a round-up of the major confirmations, rumours, hints and teasers.
March 2011 Update
Air Date
- April 23rd UK & US
(7 episodes)
- Doctor Who weekend (rumour)
- Autumn 2011 (6 episodes)
Trailers & Promos
- Prequel
- Teaser – Silence will fall
- Teaser 2 – Look behind you
- BBC America Promo
- ‘Coming soon’ trailer
- ‘Coming soon’ trailer screen caps and analysis
- DVD releases
Writers
- Steven Moffat (5 episodes)
- Neil Gaiman (1 episode)
- Mark Gatiss (1 episode)
- Matthew Graham (2 episodes)
- Toby Whithouse (1 episode)
- Steve Thompson (1 episode)
- Gareth Roberts (1 episode)
- Tom MacRae (1 episode)
Casting
- Emma Cunniffe and Daniel Mays
- Suranne Jones cast as Idris
- Mark Sheppard cast as Canton Everett Delaware III
- Marshall Lancaster and Sarah Smart
- Hugh Bonneville as Captain Avery
- Lily Cole
- David Walliams
- James Corden returns as Craig Owens
- Daisy Haggard returns as Sophie
- Michael Sheen
Filming
- First day filming in a disused nursing home
- Clark: “I’m scared filming this. The kids are gonna freak.”
- Mark Gatiss episode is being shot at Dyrham Park serving as a giant doll house?
- Bristol filming pics
- More Bristol filming pics
- Neil Gaiman episode filming details and pics
- Doctor Who filming in America
- First look at River Song back in action
- Cardiff becomes New York
- Episode 1 & 2 details and pics
- More Utah set pics
- Sontarans in episode 7
- Dorium in the stormcage
- Cybermen spotted during filming for episode 7
- Demons Run
- Episode 3 pirate filming #1
- Episode 3 pirate filming #2
- Episode 3 pirate filming #3
- TARDIS trio break-up
- The 11th Doctor’s new look
- Cybermats return in episode 12
- Craig and the Doctor reunited
- The stetson returns
- Silurians back
Rumours
- River Song will be killed off
- Amy Pond will be killed off in the Spring 2011 finale
- Matt Smith denies Amy killed off
- Matt Smith hazy on Amy’s future
- No Daleks
- Mark Gatiss episode rumours
- New monsters
- Return of the Weeping Angels
- Cloning two-parter
- The Doctor and TARDIS are cloned
- Redesigned Cybermen
- Amy is pregnant
- Monsters round-up
- New mole-like alien
- The Lodger sequel story
- Cybermen freeze the Doctor in episode 7
Hints and Teasers
- Moffat: “What is the Silence? Who is that? Who are the Silence and what’s coming…?
- Moffat: “You’ve seen more than you think. The Doctor has noticed what you have not…”
- Moffat: “We’re going into the Silence and what they are…”
- Moffat: “You will see the Doctor’s life change forever…”
- 41 hints from Series 6
- Moffat: “Old Daleks coming back”
- Gaiman: “Idris may be an old friend of the Doctor’s”
- Gaiman: Episode 3 “starts in void-space, with something we have not seen since The War Games”
- Moffat: “I’m not guaranteeing I won’t kill someone”
- The Doctor meets the US president
- Moffat: “The fez will return”
- More episode 3 teasers
- Silence may be the most hideous thing in the world!
- New monster is terrifying and rivals Weeping Angels
- Wenger: “No classic monsters returning”
- Rory and Amy’s marriage will be tested
- The Doctor faces a “particularly sadistic challenge”
- Wenger: “We’re going into the true terror of the Silence, the horror of their species and their needs”
- Moffat: “A good man will die – a good man, and a hero to many”
- Lots more hints and teasers
- Doctor to work in a shop with Craig Owens
- Episode 4 has a “new take on a familiar character”
- Details on The God Complex
- Two River Song’s?
- Amy’s question from the Comic Relief special to be “addressed”
Episodes (Spring 2011)
Episode 1 & 2: The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon (two-parter)
Written by Steven Moffat. Directed by Toby Haynes.
The working title for episode 1 was The Year of the Moon while episode 2 was Look Behind You. The Doctor, Amy and Rory find themselves on a secret summons during the late 1960’s that takes them on an adventure from the desert in Utah – right to the Oval Office itself. River Song also returns. Features The Silence who are said to be terrifying. Guest stars Mark Sheppard as Canton.
Episode 3
Written by Steve Thompson. Directed by Jeremy Webb.
The TARDIS trio land in the 17th century and find a crew of pirates who are being terrorised by sirens. Guest staring Hugh Bonneville as Captain Avery and Lily Cole.
Episode 4: The Doctor’s Wife
Written by Neil Gaiman. Directed by Richard Clark.
Set on alien junkyard planet where the Doctor meets Idris – a very important character and someone who may be an old acquaintance. Although Idris is preparing for death as the story begins, she doesn’t actually die. By the time the Doctor and friends meet her she’s gone mad and ends up biting the Time Lord. Guest stars Suranne Jone and Michael Sheen.
Episode 5 & 6: The Rebel Flesh / Gangers (two-parter)
Written by Matthew Graham. Directed by Julian Simpson.
A cloning storyline will see the Doctor and the TARDIS cloned. The TARDIS trio will also battle a new life form in a monastery and have to dodge pools of acid. The episodes will play a pretty big part in the whole series arc.
Episode 7: (Part 1) A Good Man Goes to War or His Darkest Hour.
Written by Steven Moffat. Directed by Peter Hoar.
Working title was Demons Run, now will either be called A Good Man Goes to War or His Darkest Hour. The Cybermen, Sontarans and Silurians are set to appear in the story. The episode will lead to a shocking cliffhanger that will change the Doctor’s life forever…
Episodes (Autumn 2011)
Episode 8 (Part 2)
Written by Steven Moffat. Directed by Richard Senior.
Conclusion of the Spring cliffhanger.
Episode 9: Night Terrors or House Call
Written by Mark Gatiss. Directed by Richard Clark.
Working title was What Are Little Boys Made Of? A modern day episode set in an apartment block focussing on a young boy called George who has a nervous disposition. He is particularly scared of something in his cupboard, most likely, the scary dolls.
Episode 10
Written by Tom Macrae. Directed by Nick Hurran.
Working title The Green Anchor.
Episode 11: The God Complex
Written by Toby Whithouse. Directed by Nick Hurran.
The TARDIS crew get trapped in a hotel where the geography keeps shifting. They enter nightmares through the hotel rooms. Guest starring David Walliams as a mole-like alien called Gibbis.
Episode 12
Written by Gareth Roberts. Directed by Steve Hughes.
The Doctor reunites with Craig Owens and they find themselves up against the Cybermen and Cybermats. Guest starring James Corden and Daisy Haggard.
Episode 13
Written by Steven Moffat. Directed by Richard Senior
The series finale.
