2010

Doctor Who Universe

March

• Gwen Cooper and Rhys Williams meet with Jack Harkness outside Cardiff, where Jack (still remoseful over the deaths of his grandson, Ianto, Owen, Tosh and Suzie) uses his recovered vortex manipulator to send a signal to a cold fusion freighter just outside the Sol system. He is beamed up into space. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Five)

April

• 24: Wedding of Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane, in Cheldon Bonniface, England, Earth. Many guests from throughout time and space attend. (NA: Happy Endings)
• Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart is restored to youth and health by the Fortean Flicker. (NA: Happy Endings)

Unknown dates

• The Doctor saves Luke Smith from being run over by a car, and says his final goodbye to Sarah Jane Smith from a distance. (
• At some point after March, the Doctor visits Captain Jack Harkness, who is recovering from the events of TW: Children of Earth, and hints that he should start dating Alonso Frame before parting. (
• In either March, April or May, Donna Noble has her wedding engagment to Shaun Temple. Among her guests are her mother Sylvia Noble, granddad Wilfred Mott, friend Nerys, and unbestknown to her, the Doctor. (
• The alien Samarands invade Greece. (DWM: Hotel Historia)

Other timelines

• Mickey Smith, Jake Simmonds and Pete travel from a parallel world back to the Doctor's universe. They and Rose and Jackie Tyler are stuck in Pete's World after the tear through the Void closes. (DW: Doomsday)

Due to time differences between the two worlds, they appear in 2007 in the other world. See also Pete's World.

Real World

• The fifth series of Doctor Who is scheduled for broadcast on the BBC this year, consisting of 13 episodes with Steven Moffat taking over from Russell T Davies as executive producer, and Matt Smith taking over the role of the Doctor from David Tennant. Filming for the season began in July 2009, and is expected to carry over into 2010 per the precedent of previous seasons. Although precedent holds that the new season will likely air starting in the spring of 2010 (possibly March or April), until the BBC announces an actual date, this cannot be confirmed. There have also been media reports that the 2010 season may be split into two halves due to conflicts with coverage of the FIFA World Cup; as of December 2009, this too can only be seen as conjecture. It is also not yet known whether a Christmas special will be commissioned for 2010.
• Related to the above, international broadcasters such as BBC America in the US and Space in Canada are also expected to broadcast Series 5 in 2010, however scheduling is not possible until the BBC confirms its broadcast plans. The effect, if any, of a potential split season is as yet undetermined.
• Series 5 will introduce (among other expected changes) a new Doctor Who logo, which was unveiled in October 2009.
• Assuming it is renewed, production of Series 6 of Doctor Who will presumably begin in the second half of 2010, for broadcast in 2011. As of early January 2010 it has not been indicated whether a Christmas special will be commissioned for 2010.
• Series 4 of Torchwood is anticipated to go into production this year, based upon John Barrowman announcing in November 2009 that he had been signed to appear. Dependent on when production starts, broadcast of the season may occur in 2010 or 2011.
• The first season of the Australian-made spinoff series K-9 is expected to debut in the UK sometime in early 2010, following the broadcast of the pilot episode in late 2009. [1]
• According to Doctor Who Magazine, a 4th series of The Sarah Jane Adventures is also expected; as with Torchwood, above, production and broadcast details are as yet unknown.
• According to Doctor Who Magazine, a DVD box set entitled Revisitations is scheduled for UK release in 2010. The box set will include several stories previously released in bare-bones/"vanilla" DVD editions (early in the DVD line), as well as a new edition of the 1996 TV movie. A North American release of Revisitations is assumed, but it's not known if the TV movie will be included (due to complicated R1 rights issues).[2]

Early 2010

• Scheduled publication of Deborah Watling's autobiography, Daddy's Girl (delayed from the original November 2009 publication date).

January

• BFA: A Thousand Tiny Wings is scheduled for release. This audio will reintroduce Elizabeth Klein, a character who last appeared in the 2001 release BFA: Colditz, as a new companion for the Seventh Doctor.
• CC: Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code is scheduled for release. While previous installments of The Companion Chronicles have featured former TV companions, this story will feature Benny Summerfield, a companion created for the Virgin New Adventures novels.
• In Toronto, Ontario, the Bad Dog Theatre company mounts an improvisational comedy production parodying Doctor Who entitled Doctor Whom, with Anand Rajaram as the Doctor.
• 01 - DW: The End of Time, Part Two is first broadcast, concluding the David Tennant era and marking the debut of Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor. The final David Tennant edition of Doctor Who Confidential follows.
  • BBC One also rebroadcasts DW: The End of Time, Part One earlier in the day.
  • Rebroadcast of Doctor Who's Greatest Moments: The Doctor on BBC3.
  • Beginning at Midnight New Year's Eve/Day, BBC America begins airing a 46-hour marathon of the entire David Tennant era, beginning with DW: The Christmas Invasion.
  • TW: Children of Earth is rebroadcast in its entirety on the Canadian network Space.
• 02 - US broadcast of DW: The End of Time, Part Two on BBC America, ending its 46-hour David Tennant marathon.
  • Space Channel in Canada airs both parts of DW: The End of Time for the first time as part of a daylong Doctor Who/Torchwood marathon that includes rebroadcasts of all the specials from DW: The Next Doctor to The Waters of Mars, and additional rebroadcasts of the complete TW: Children of Earth mini-series.
  • Rebroadcast of the final David Tennant edition of Doctor Who Confidential on BBC3.
  • Following its broadcast of DW: The End of Time, Part Two, the BBC receives more than 140 complaints from viewers alleging that the Eleventh Doctor's reference to not being ginger was a slight against redheaded people. See 6th January.
• 03 - DW: The End of Time is rebroadcast on Space in Canada.
• Week of 4th January - Production of Series 5 resumes in Cardiff after a Christmas break (and some international filming in late 2009).
• 05 - North American DVD release of DW: The Keys of Marinus and DW: The Twin Dilemma.
  • The arrival of Matt Smith as the new Doctor Who is the topic of a question on the internationally syndicated American game show Jeopardy.
• 06 - In response to complaints regarding widespread misinterpretation of the Eleventh Doctor's comment from the end of DW: The End of Time, Part Two about not being ginger, the BBC issues an official statement clarifying that the line references the Doctor's previously-stated desire to be ginger in DW: The Christmas Invasion, and also noting that both Donna Noble and Amy Pond are redheads.[3]
  • Filming for Series 5 takes place in Cardiff at Roald Dahl Plass which attracts media attention.[4]
• 07 - BBCR: The Last Voyage, the last exclusive-to-audio adventure of the Tenth Doctor, is first released.
  • Audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who - The Three Doctors is first released.
  • Doctor Who Magazine debuts a new look incorporating the new Doctor Who logo.
• 08 - Scheduled Australian debut of TW: Children of Earth on ABC2. The five chapters of the mini-series will be broadcast one per week.
• 11 - Scheduled UK DVD/Blu-Ray release of the 2009 Specials box set, including DW: The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead, The Waters of Mars and The End of Time. DW: The Next Doctor, becomes the first Doctor Who episode to be "upconverted" from standard definition to high definition.[5]
• 12 - Scheduled box set release of the 5-part BBC Audio story, BBCR: Hornets' Nest.
• 14 - Scheduled publication of the second edition of The Writer's Tale by Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook, titled The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter.
• 18 - Scheduled UK DVD release of DW: The Curse of Peladon and DW: The Monster of Peladon, to be released together as a box set.
• 31 - BFA: Leviathan (The Lost Stories) is scheduled for release.

February

• BFA: Survival of the Fittest is scheduled for release. This release is also expected to include the 12th and final chapter of the serialized story CC: The Three Companions.
• CC: Yet-to-be-titled First Doctor story is scheduled for release.
• 01 - Scheduled UK DVD release of DW: Dreamland.
• 02 - Scheduled North American DVD/Blu-Ray release of DW: The Waters of Mars and The End of Time, and the 5-disc 2009 Specials box set including DW: The Next Doctor, which has been upconverted to high definition for the Blu-Ray edition.
• 08 - Scheduled UK DVD release of DW: The Masque of Mandragora.
• 14 - Scheduled Australian broadcast of DW: The End of Time, Part One on ABC1
• 21 - Scheduled Australian broadcast of DW: The End of Time, Part Two on ABC1
• 28 - BFA: The Hollows of Time (The Lost Stories) is scheduled for release.

March

• BFA: The Architects of Memory is scheduled for release.
• CC: Yet-to-be-titled Second Doctor story is scheduled for release.
• The Canadian cable network Space is scheduled to take over the Canadian broadcast licence for seasons 1-4 and related Christmas Specials (save DW: Voyage of the Damned which does not become available until April) from the CBC.
• 01 - Scheduled UK DVD release of DW: The Space Museum and The Chase.
• 02 - Scheduled North American DVD release of the Dalek War box set featuring DW: Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks.
  • Scheduled North American DVD release of DW: Remembrance of the Daleks, more than two years after it was first announced.
• 04 - Scheduled publication of NSA: Code of the Krillitanes, the fifth Quick Reads novella. This book will feature the Tenth Doctor, despite it being published several months after DW: The End of Time, and as such may end up being the final Tenth Doctor original novel under the BBC New Series Adventures line.
• 15 - Scheduled publication of REF: Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It, an essay collection by Mad Norwegian Press. Contributors include Lisa Bowerman, Kate Orman, India Fisher, Sophie Aldred and Carole E. Barrowman (sister of John Barrowman and co-author of his autobiography).
• 26 - Fifth anniversary of the return of Doctor Who to television.
• 29 - Scheduled UK release of the DVD box set Myths and Legends, including DW: The Time Monster, Underworld and The Horns of Nimon.
• 31 - BFA: Paradise 5 (The Lost Stories) is scheduled for release.

April

• The Canadian cable network Space is scheduled to take over the Canadian broadcast licence for the 2007 Christmas special DW: Voyage of the Damned from the CBC, officially ending the CBC's association with the Doctor Who franchise. According to a January 2009 posting by the Doctor Who Information Network, Space is expected to broadcast the episode soon after.[6]
• Scheduled publication of NSA: Apollo 23, NSA: Night of the Humans and NSA: The Forgotten Army, the first original novels featuring the Eleventh Doctor.
• Scheduled release of BBCR: The Hounds of Artemis, the first original audio story featuring the Eleventh Doctor.
• BFA: City of Spires is scheduled for release. This is the first of three dramas pairing the Sixth Doctor with Jamie McCrimmon.
• CC: Yet-to-be-titled Third Doctor story is scheduled for release..
• Scheduled UK DVD release of DW: Time and the Rani.
• 30 - BFA: Point of Entry (The Lost Stories) is scheduled for release.

May

• BFA: The Wreck of the Titan is scheduled for release.
• CC: Yet-to-be-titled Sixth Doctor story is scheduled for release.
• 31 - BFA: The Macros (The Lost Stories) is scheduled for release.

June

• BFA: Legend of the Cybermen is scheduled for release.
• CC: Yet-to-be-titled Sixth Doctor story is scheduled for release.
• BBCR: The Runaway Train is scheduled for release.
• 30 - BFA: The Song of Megaptera (The Lost Stories) is scheduled for release.

November

• Per an announcement made in February 2009, IDW: Doctor Who Ongoing is scheduled to publish its final issue featuring the adventures of the Tenth Doctor, before moving on to the Eleventh Doctor.

Late 2010

• An as-yet untitled Doctor Who novel by Michael Moorcock is scheduled for publication before Christmas.[7]

December

• According to an announcement made by IDW Publishing at the New York Comic Con in February 2009, the comic book series IDW: Doctor Who Ongoing is scheduled to begin publishing original adventures featuring the Eleventh Doctor as of its 18th issue, scheduled for publication this month.

2009

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2011