Series 6 (Doctor Who 2005)

For the 6th season of the original series, see Season 6.

Series 6 of Doctor Who, sometimes known as Season 32 for clarity over Season 6, is expected to air on BBC One around Spring 2011. DWM Issue 419 has confirmed that it has been commissioned by the BBC, and producer Piers Wenger also announced the same at the BBC Press Launch for Series 5 in March 2010. Filming is set to start in July 2010. This series will be preceded by a 2010 Christmas Special, written by Steven Moffat.

Cast

It has been confirmed that Matt Smith will return as the Eleventh Doctor. Producers also confirmed that Karen Gillan will return as Amy Pond. This will make this the first season since the 2005 relaunch of the series when both the Doctor and companion from the previous season will carry over into the new season.

Confirmed cast

• Eleventh Doctor - Matt Smith
• Amy Pond - Karen Gillan
• Rory Williams - Arthur Darvill
• River Song - Alex Kingston (confirmed by Steven Moffat In Doctor Who Confidential)

Guest cast

• Eric - Nick Malinowski
• Older Benjamin - Steve North
• TBA - Michael Gambon
• TBA - Katherine Jenkins
• TBA - Danny Horn
• TBA - Laura Rogers

Notes

• Steven Moffat confirmed in Doctor Who Confidential that River Song's identity and background story will be revealed in Series 6, and that the unanswered questions of Series 5 concerning the Time Field cracks, the silence, and the mysterious external force that took control of the TARDIS and tried to make it explode, will play a role.

Aliens and enemies

to be added

Production

Writers

Neil Gaiman has confirmed that he is writing an episode for the first half of this series. It is highly likely that Steven Moffat will return as Executive Producer and Head Writer and if so will most likely write at least 3 episodes (The first, and finale episodes). Gaiman told BBC News that his episode was originally titled The House of Nothing It was revealed on Neil Gaiman's twitter page that his episode will be the third episode of Series 6 It has been rumoured that Tom MacRae and Paul Cornell are writing for Series 6, though Cornell denied the rumour.

• Steven Moffat (6 episodes - Including the Christmas Special)
• Neil Gaiman (1 episode)

Crew

DWM 424 confirmed on page 5 the following:

• Sanne Wohlenberg will take over as Producer for Blocks One and Two
• Michael Pickwood will be the new Production designer
• Barbara Kidd will be the new Costume designer
• Di Barton will be the new Line producer
• Piers Wenger and Beth Willis will be staying as Executive producers

Television stories

Christmas special

#	Title	Writer	Director	Notes
N/A	TBA	Steven Moffat	Toby Haynes

Regular season

The series has been commissioned for 13 episodes. Until confirmed otherwise it is assumed that the series will follow the format of the previous five, that there will be 10 stories, with three of them being two-parters.

#	Title	Writer	Director	Notes
1	TBA	Steven Moffat	TBA
2	TBA	TBA	TBA
3	TBA	Neil Gaiman	TBA
4	Pt. 1: TBA Pt. 2: TBA	TBA	TBA
5	TBA	TBA	TBA
6	TBA	TBA	TBA
7	Pt. 1: TBA Pt. 2: TBA	TBA	TBA
8	TBA	TBA	TBA
9	TBA	TBA	TBA
10	Pt. 1: TBA Pt. 2: TBA	Steven Moffat	TBA

Notes

• During an interview with Neil Gaiman on BBC breakfast he revealed that his episode is "Very spooky" and that fans "Are likely to be biting their nails off by the end".
• Steven Moffat has said that the Christmas Special will be the most " Christmassy Christmas special ever." and " We're going for broke with this one. It's all your favourite Christmas movies at once, in an hour, with monsters and the Doctor and a honeymoon and – oh, you'll see. I've honestly never been so excited about writing anything. I was laughing madly as I typed along to Christmas songs in April. My neighbours loved it so much they all moved away and set up a website demanding my execution. But I'm fairly sure they did it ironically."
• Controller of drama commissioning Ben Stephenson revealed that the episode, which guest stars Michael Gambon and Katherine Jenkins, will be based on Charles Dickens' 1843 novel A Christmas Carol.

Rumours

• The ending of The Big Bang mentioned an "Egyptian Goddess loose on the Orient Express ... in space ...", which may or may not form part of the plot for the Christmas Special. The Doctor also mentioned "Your Highness" during this conversation, leading to speculation that he was speaking to Liz 10.
• It was rumoured, after concept art featured on the official website of Peter McKinstry, that the classic series monster the Yeti would feature at some point in the future. This was later denied and McKinstry stated that the art was for the Doctor Who DVD Files Magazine and not the Christmas Special.
• The Sun published a rumour that Matt Smith would leave after the 2011 series , a rumour which was picked up by several other media sources . This has been denied by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan
• Nicky Wire, lead guitarist of rock band MANIC Street Preachers is reportedly writing a script, which he hopes to submit, called "Do Not Go Gently" He has denied this, saying the script was 'purely for his own amusement'.
• The Daily Star has reported that the villain for the christmas special has been confirmed by the BBC to be a CGI "Flying Shark". This looks more positive now filming pictures have emerged from filming showing a door with a bite mark in and a model sculpture of what appears to be a CGI Shark fin .

Footnotes

Previous season: Series 5

Next season: TBA