Series 6 So Far (December Update)
What do we know about Series 6 so far? Here’s a round-up of the major confirmations, rumours, hints and teasers.
December 2010 Update – New links added and episode guide updated
Air Date
- Spring 2011 (7 episodes)
- Autumn 2011 (6 episodes)
Media
Writers
- Steven Moffat (5 episodes)
- Neil Gaiman (1 episode)
- Mark Gatiss (1 episode)
- Matthew Graham (2 episodes)
- Toby Whithouse (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
Filming
- Episode 4 filming in a disused nursing home
- Clark: “I’m scared filming this. The kids are gonna freak.”
- Episode 4 is being shot at Dyrham Park serving as a giant doll house
- Bristol filming pics
- More Bristol filming pics
- Episode 3 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
Rumours
- River Song will be killed off
- Amy Pond will be killed off in the Spring 2011 finale
- Matt Smith denies Amy killed off
- No Daleks
- Episode 4 to be called What Are Little Boys Made Of
- New monsters
- Return of the Weeping Angels?
- Episode 5 focusses on an office block staffed by clones
- The Doctor and TARDIS are cloned
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.”
Episodes (Spring 2011)
Episode 1 & 2 (two-parter)
Written by Steven Moffat. Directed by Toby Haynes.
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 a terrifying monster that may be The Silence. Guest stars Mark Sheppard.
Episode 3
Written by Neil Gaiman. Directed by Richard Clark.
Set on alien junkyard planet. Guest stars Suranne Jone as Idris – a very important character in the Doctors life. 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.
Episode 4
Written by Mark Gatiss. Directed by Richard Clark.
Rumoured title, What Are Little Boys Made Of? Modern day episode in a giant doll house with scary dolls as monsters.
Episode 5 & 6 (two-parter)
Written by Matthew Graham. Directed by Julian Simpson.
Currently believed to be titled ‘The Rebel Flesh’ and ‘Gangers’. About an office block of clones and the story will also see the Doctor and the TARDIS cloned. The episodes will play a pretty big part in the whole series arc.
Episode 7 (two-parter)
Written by Steven Moffat
Will lead to a shocking cliffhanger that will change the Doctor’s life forever…
Episodes (Autumn 2011)
Episode 8
Written by Steven Moffat
Conclusion of the Spring cliffhanger.
