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, of which Steven Moffat shall write.

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)

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 unasnwered questions of series 5 concerning the Time Field cracks, the silence, and the mytsterious external force that took control of the TARDIS and tried to make it explode, will play a role. It is possible that River Song may return as a full time companion, but nothing about this has been confirmed yet. It is also possible that Rory Williams will play a much larger role.

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 [1]

Writers

• Steven Moffat (at least 3)
• Neil Gaiman (1 episode)

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 [2]	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

Rumours

• No information has been released thus far regarding the plot of the 2010 Christmas special. Steven Moffat has stated that it will be "the most Christmassy Christmas special there'll ever be."
• The Robot Yeti may return in the 2010 Christmas Special as a design has been released for its skeleton.
• There is much speculation that the mysterious entity behind Series 5's Time Field will play a major role in the series. This was confirmed by Steven Moffat in Doctor Who Confidetial.
• Tom Baker will appear in a multi-Doctor episode.
• Billie Piper will return as Rose Tyler. Nothing has been confirmed yet, but there are no sources for this rumour at all, this is possibly just a fan-want.

Footnotes

Previous season: Series 5

Next season: TBA