2010

Doctor Who Universe

March

• After 6 months of travelling, Captain Jack briefly returns to Earth to meet Gwen Cooper on a hill overlooking Cardiff. Gwen, who is heavily pregnant at the time, is accompanied by her husband Rhys. They give him his Vortex Manipulator back, and when Gwen asks him if he's back to stay, Jack says he feels responsible for the deaths of Ianto, Owen, Toshiko and Suzy. Feeling there is nothing left for him on Earth, Jack teleports away to an unknown destination. Gwen is left distraught by this, being the only remaining member of Torchwood Three left. She and Rhys promptly leave the hillside and Torchwood Three is effectively disbanded.

Unknown dates

• An alien race called the 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.

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

Real World

NOTE: This section includes announced and surmised events in the future; dates, events, and titles are subject to change.

• The 5th series of Doctor Who is scheduled for broadcast 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. Production of the season is expected to begin in 2009, and is expected to carry over into 2010 per the precedent of previous seasons.
• 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 January 2009 it has not yet been announced as to whether this will include another Christmas special, which would air around December 25, 2010.
• Presumably the 2009 specials will receive DVD release in a box set in early 2010, after the broadcast of David Tennant's final special. However the announcement in May 2009 that Planet of the Dead and The Next Doctor are to be released on their own both in the UK and North America has called this into question.
• Broadcast of the first season of the spin-off series K-9 is expected to continue into 2010 in its country of production, Australia. Broadcast plans for elsewhere in the world have yet to be announced.
• BBC America is expected to broadcast the final three David Tennant specials at some point after their UK showing, meaning likely early 2010.[1]

"Early 2010"

• According to media reports in October 2008, the final "gap year" special episode of Doctor Who may not be broadcast until early 2010, contradicting earlier reports that they would all air in 2009. This final special, whenever it airs, will be the last under the watch of producers Russell T. Davies and Julie Gardner and the last to feature David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor; it is not yet known whether the actor chosen to play the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith will appear in the special as well.
• In March 2009 it was learned via a Russell T. Davies interview in SFX Magazine that the final three specials of the gap year would air around "Christmas/late 2009".[2] As the exact airdates have yet to be announced as of March 2009, a New Year's Day broadcast is possible for one of the specials.

March

• The Canadian cable network Space is scheduled to take over the Canadian broadcast licence for season 1-4 and related Christmas Specials (save Voyage of the Damned) from the CBC.
• 26 - Fifth anniversary of the return of Doctor Who to television.

April

• The Canadian cable network Space is scheduled to take over the Canadian broadcast licence for the 2007 Christmas special Voyage of the Damned from the CBC, officially ending the CBC's association with the Doctor Who franchise.

December

• According to an announcement made by IDW Publishing at the New York Comic Con in February 2009, the comic book series 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

21st century 2010s

2011