2010

Doctor Who Universe

Spring (March, April, May)

• At some point prior to Donna's wedding, Joshua Naismith and his daughter, Abigail Naismith, are put on trial. (DW: The End of Time)
• Date unknown: Wedding of Donna Noble and Shaun Temple. Among her guests are her mother Sylvia Noble, granddad Wilfred Mott, friend Nerys, and unbeknownst to her, the Doctor, who is in the midst of a prolonged regeneration. The Doctor (by way of Sylvia and Wilf) gifts Donna a winning triple rollover lottery ticket. (DW: The End of Time)

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)

June

• 25: The Eleventh Doctor returns to Amy Pond's house two years after the incident with the Atraxi and Prisoner Zero from 2008 and invites her to travel with him. (DW: The Eleventh Hour). They leave together, and return at 11:55 PM after the crash of the Byzantium.
• 26: The Doctor and Amy leave after picking up Rory. (DW: Flesh and Stone, The Vampires of Venice). River Song arrives some time in the early morning before sunrise after the TARDIS lands there. She investigates Amy's house and finds a book on the Pandora's Box and a Roman Britain book beside her bed. She takes them for analysis in the TARDIS shortly before it explodes on this date, cracking all of time and space. (DW: The Pandorica Opens).

Winter (possibly)

• Unknown: The Eleventh Doctor travels to and takes Amy Pond to see a Vincent van Gogh exhibit in a French museum, where they discover a monster peeping through a church window in one of his paintings and travel back to 1890 to discover the meaning of the painting. (DW: Vincent and the Doctor) Although the date in the year is not confirmed, the setting indicates that it is winter or nearing it.

Unknown dates

The following events are conjectured as taking place in 2010. None of them, however, include any on-screen indication as to whether they actually occurred this year, but the likeliness is that they do, with Martha and Mickey appearing recently married and having gotten married near September 2009 and Captain Jack appear to have not been away from Earth long since he left in March this year.

• Martha Jones and her husband Mickey Smith are saved from a Sontaran by The Doctor. (DW: The End of Time)
• At some point after March, The Doctor visits Jack Harkness, who is recovering from the 456 incident (TW: Children of Earth), and hints that he should start dating Alonso Frame before parting. (DW: The End of Time)
• Verity Newman, granddaughter of Joan Redfern (DW: Human Nature/The Family of Blood) publishes an autobiography of her grandmother, incorporating elements of the Doctor's Journal of Impossible Things. During a book-signing, the Doctor gets a copy of the book signed and asked if Joan lived a happy life. (DW: The End of Time)
• The Doctor and Amy go to New York City and find that the city has been invaded Vykoids. (NSA: The Forgotten Army)

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

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

• 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. What is unclear is whether it will be a BBC production or an American production by the Starz network, per media reports in mid-2010.
• A DVD box set entitled Revisitations is scheduled for UK release in 2010. The box set will include three stories previously released in bare-bones/"vanilla" DVD editions (early in the DVD line): DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang, DW: The Caves of Androzani and 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 Region 1 rights issues).[1]

Early 2010

• Big Finish announces it is reviving its Short Trips line as a series of short audio dramas, with the first release expected in late 2010.[2]

January

• CC: Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code is first released. 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.
• The Radio Times publishes a special retrospective magazine (available by mail order), entitled Doctor Who: David Tennant and the Regeneration Years 2005-2010.
• 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.
• The Australian-produced spin-off series K-9 begins airing in Scandinavia.
• 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. This is expected to be the final on-screen use of the logo introduced in 2005 (and later modified slighly), as well as the arrangement of the Doctor Who theme introduced at the end of 2007. 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.
  • A Dalek makes a cameo appearance in an episode of the American sitcom Better Off Ted.
  • Almost immediately after the broadcast of the finale, BBC Online's Doctor Who website begins phasing in a new look featuring the new logo and material related to the Eleventh Doctor. Little of this, however, is made available to Internet users outside the UK.
• 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, an 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.
  • DW: The Keys of Marinus is released to DVD in Region 4.
• Early January - production of David Tennant's American pilot, Rex is Not Your Lawyer, concludes in Hollywood. Soon after, US media reports that production of a full series by the NBC network may be fast-tracked due to the necessity of filling multiple timeslots left vacant as of March 2010 by the cancellation of the five-nights-a-week Jay Leno Show. It is later reported, however, that NBC has chosen not to follow through with a full series for now, though a fall 2010 broadcast is still a possibility. [5]
  • It is also announced that Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Tish Jones in Series 3) has been cast in a lead role in another American series, Undercovers, from J.J. Abrams.
• 08 - Australian debut of TW: Children of Earth on ABC2. The five chapters of the mini-series will be broadcast one per week.
  • The British Academy of Film and Television Arts posts The Regeneration of Doctor Who, a 25-minute discussion with Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner, to its YouTube channel.[6]
• 11 - 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.[7] A three-disc Winter Specials set containing just Waters of Mars and End of Time, is also released.
• 12 - A box set compiling the 5-part BBC Audio story, BBCR: Hornets' Nest is first released.
• 14 - The second edition of The Writer's Tale by Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook, titled The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter, is first published in the UK. The new edition adds more than 300 pages of new material to the previous book.
  • Mark Jones (Keeler, DW: The Seeds of Doom), dies in Shrewsbury, Shropshire at the age of 70.
• Mid January - Canadian broadcasts of Series 2 of The Sarah Jane Adventures begins in some parts of Canada on BBC Kids (a major national cable provider dropped the network in 2009).
  • The BBC begins scouting for a new producer to take on Series 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures.[8]
• 18 - UK release of The Peladon Tales DVD box set consisting of DW: The Curse of Peladon and DW: The Monster of Peladon.
• 19 - Reports surface in US media that BBC Worldwide, Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter are planning to mount a US version of Torchwood for the American Fox network. John Barrowman is a potential star, reprising Jack Harkness, but at this point it's not known if the show will be a standalone remake or part of the established Whoniverse. According to The Hollywood Reporter a US-based "reboot" of Doctor Who is a possibility as well.[9]
• 20 - For the fourth consecutive ceremony, Doctor Who wins the Drama category at the National Television Awards. David Tennant also received the NTA award for Best Drama Performance.

Special effects technician Ian Scoones dies in Bulgaria.

• 21 - BBCR: Doctor Who at the BBC: A Legend Reborn is first released (delayed from original release date of November 2009). However it is immediately recalled due to issues regarding clearance of some material on the disc and a new February release date announced. A few copies of the unedited version, however, enter circulation.[10]
  • REF: The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter was scheduled to be published in North America, although availability through retailers such as Amazon is apparently delayed until March. Some smaller retailers might still have received the book.
  • Doctor Who Adventures publishes its 150th issue. To celebrate the magazine comes packaged with a package of "Mars Slime".
• 22 - The audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors is first released.
• Late January - Launch of Vworp Vworp!, a fanzine dedicated to the history of Doctor Who Magazine and the Doctor Who comic strip.[11]
• 29 - WC: Doctor Who and the Silver Spiral, an unofficial web-exclusive short story, is published by astronomer Dr. Megan Argo to commemorate a major discovery involving a supernova. The story receives press coverage in Scientific American. Argo also records and uploads an audio version of the story, read by her.[12][13]
• 30 - David Tennant and Catherine Tate once again guest-host the Jonathan Ross show on BBC Radio. Guests include Anthony Head and Ricky Gervais.
• 31 - BFA: Leviathan (The Lost Stories) is first released.
  • BFA: A Thousand Tiny Wings is first released. 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.
• Look Who's Talking, a collection of columns written by Colin Baker for Bucks Free Press between 1995 and 2009, is first published.
• Shooty Dog Thing, a collection of fanzine articles, is first published.

February

• CC: The Suffering is first released.
• The online service SeeSaw begins offering classic-series Doctor Who episodes for online viewing.
• 01 - The animated story DW: Dreamland is first released on DVD in the UK. The documentary series Doctor Who's Greatest Moments is included in the release.
• 02 - 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.
• 03 - Doctor Who DVD Files moves beyond the 2005-present revival and begins featuring classic-series stories on DVD, beginning with DW: Remembrance of the Daleks.
• 04 - Region 4 DVD/Blu-Ray release of DW: The Waters of Mars and the Dalek War DVD box set featuring DW: Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks.
  • The audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who - Logopolis is first released.
• 06 - Noted fantasy writer Neil Gaiman announces via his blog that he will be writing an episode of Doctor Who for the 2011 season.[14] This is also the first indication that the series is expected to continue beyond 2010.
• 07 - New Zealand broadcast of DW: The End of Time, Part One.
• 08 - UK DVD release of DW: The Masque of Mandragora.
• 11 - Reissue date for BBCR: Doctor Who at the BBC: A Legend Reborn, following two previous delays. [15]
• 14 - Australian broadcast of DW: The End of Time, Part One on ABC1
  • New Zealand broadcast of DW: The End of Time, Part Two.
  • The Sunday Times runs an article "Doctor in War with Planet Maggie" that alleges that episodes of the fading original series in the late 1980s were crafted with an anti-Margaret Thatcher political agenda, a view apparently supported by Sylvester McCoy and his era's script editor, Andrew Cartmel. DW: The Happiness Patrol and Paradise Towers and even the obscure novel TC: Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma are cited as specific examples.
• 15 - The 20-years-warmed-over controversy as to whether late-period Doctor Who had an anti-Thatcher agenda is picked up by other media, and is the topic of a discussion with Andrew Cartmel, Terrance Dicks and others on BBC Two's Newsnight.
  • George Waring (Arden, DW: The Ice Warriors) dies.
• 17 - The BBC, in advance of issuing a new trailer, releases a new Eleventh Doctor promotional image featuring the the Doctor, Amy Pond, a Dalek, a Weeping Angel, and the first glimpse of a new character, the Smiler.
  • Matt Smith chooses the winner in a "design a TARDIS console" contest conducted on Blue Peter. The console design is scheduled to be incorporated into an upcoming Series 5 episode in some way.[16]
  • Around this same time, Broadcast magazine reports that a 40-second 3-D trailer has been produced for cinemas.
• 19 - Doctor Who and Torchwood receive several nominations for the 2010 Saturn Awards (scheduled to be awarded 24th June). DW: The End of Time and TW: Children of Earth is nominated for Best Television Presentation (competition includes the new versions of The Prisoner and V along, with, strangely, The Tudors; David Tennant is nominated for Best Actor in Television; Bernard Cribbins is nominated for Best Guest Starring Role in Television (his competition includes John Lithgow and Leonard Nimoy); and in the Best DVD Television Release category, the DVD of DW: Planet of the Dead and TW: Children of Earth were nominated against full-season sets of Lost, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the US version of Life on Mars, and another BBC series, Primeval.
• 20 - A 3-D trailer for the new series, featuring specially-shot footage, debuts on UK cinemas.
• 21 - Australian broadcast of DW: The End of Time, Part Two on ABC1.
• 23 - Multiple Doctor Who-related audios are released in North America, including BBCR: The Last Voyage, and the audio adaptations of DWN: Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth, DWN: Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors, DWN: Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders and NSA: Beautiful Chaos.
  • Australian broadcasts of Series 3 of The Sarah Jane Adventures begin on Nickelodeon.
• 24 - A major auction of props from Doctor Who takes place at Bonhams auction house[17].
• 28 - BFA: The Hollows of Time (The Lost Stories) is first released.
  • BFA: Survival of the Fittest is first released. This release includes the 12th and final chapter of the serialized story CC: The Three Companions.

March

• CC: The Emperor of Eternity is first released.
• The Canadian cable network Space takes over the Canadian broadcast licence for Doctor Who seasons 1-4 and related Christmas Specials (save DW: Voyage of the Damned which does not become available until April) from the CBC.
• 01 - UK DVD release of DW: The Space Museum and The Chase as a single set.
• 02 - North American DVD release of the Dalek War box set featuring DW: Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks.
  • North American DVD release of DW: Remembrance of the Daleks Special Edition, more than two years after it was first announced.
• 04 - NSA: Code of the Krillitanes, the fifth Quick Reads novella, is first published. This book features the Tenth Doctor, despite it being published several months after DW: The End of Time. It is the final Tenth Doctor original novel under the BBC New Series Adventures line. (Although announced for 4th March, online retailers were shipping the book as early as mid-February.)
  • Audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who - Castrovalva is first released.
  • The The Peladon Tales DVD box set consisting of DW: The Curse of Peladon and DW: The Monster of Peladon is released in Region 4, along with the DVD/Blu-Ray release of DW: The End of Time.
  • The BBC announces that it has not only commissioned a 4th series of The Sarah Jane Adventures for airing later in 2010, but also a 5th series to air in 2011. Brian Minchin is announced as the new producer for the series, although Russell T Davies stays on as executive producer. [18]
  • Paul Magrs publishes the young adult novel The Diary of a Dr. Who Addict, about a youth growing up in 1980s Britain.
  • The BBC announces it has purchased 2 entertain, the company that has co-produced many of its DVD releases, including Doctor Who, in recent years.[19]
• 07 - BBCR: Dead Air, the final exclusive-to-audio story featuring the Tenth Doctor, is first released.
• 09 - The BBC Four documentary Sidekick Stories, narrated by Catherine Tate, includes a segment devoted to Doctor Who and includes interviews with David Tennant, Elisabeth Sladen and John Leeson.
  • Doctor Who wins Best TV Drama at the 2010 Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Awards. The award is accepted by Bernard Cribbins.
• 10 - Fugitive, a graphic novel reprinting the first story arcs from IDW: Doctor Who Ongoing, is published both in North America and in the UK, which will make it one of the first occasions of original IDW comic stories being released in Britain.
• 11 - It is reported that the upcoming Region 1 and 4 DVD release of DW: The Chase will be edited to remove a sequence featuring a film clip of The Beatles. No release date for the DVD has been announced. It's also reported that the North American release of DW: Dreamland, originally scheduled for 4 May, has been delayed to October.[20]
• 12 - The Sun tabloid reports that BBC Worldwide has signed a £10-million deal with Nintendo for the development of a Doctor Who game for the Wii and DS gaming systems.[21]
• 15 - REF: Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It is first published. This is 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).
• 16 - The 20-26 March issue of Radio Times, available today, includes an interview with Steven Moffat.
• 17 - On his official website, Tom Baker indicates that he is in discussions with Big Finish Productions about possibly recording an audio drama.[22]
• 18 - A BBC press screening is held for DW: The Eleventh Hour, during which producer Piers Wenger officially announced that a 2010 Christmas special is planned, and production of Series 6 is set to begin in July.[23]
  • Big Finish Productions issues a statement titled "Fourth Doctor Rumour Control" indicating that nothing official has been arranged regarding Tom Baker doing any recordings for the company, though Elisabeth Sladen, Louise Jameson and Nicholas Courtney are cited as being enthusiastic about possibly participating should such a project come together.[24]
• 19 - UK media give extensive coverage to the previous night's press launch, with Steven Moffat, fresh from a dubbing edit of DW: Victory of the Daleks, appearing on BBC Breakfast to promote show.
  • American publication Entertainment Weekly's website reports on rumours that Jack Harkness might be rendered heterosexual for the proposed US version of Torchwood.[25]
• 20 - Filming of Series 5 concludes (according to comments made at the 18 March press launch).
• 24 - Rescheduled release date for REF: The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter for North American retailers such as Amazon (originally announced for 21 January).
• 25 - Doctor Who Adventures publishes its final issue using the Doctor Who branding introduced in 2005. It is likely the last piece of merchandise to make the change to the new Eleventh Doctor-era branding.
• 26 - Fifth anniversary of the return of Doctor Who to television.
  • Matt Smith appears on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, during which a new trailer and a clip from DW: Vampires in Venice are unveiled.
• 27 - The first minute of DW: The Eleventh Hour becomes available as a special preview on the BBC's Red Button service in the UK.[26]
  • The BBC Radio 4 series Archive on Four airs the documentary Sculptress of Sound: The Lost Works of Delia Derbyshire.
• 28 - At approximately the same time, two BBC Radio programmes are interrupted by specially-recorded mini-skits featuring Matt Smith in character as Eleventh Doctor: on The Official Chart on BBC Radio 1 the Doctor interrupts ""Opposite Adults" by Chiddy Bang and jokes about knowing the No. 1 song before the listeners. Approximately two minutes later, BBC Radio 2's The Paul O'Grady Show is airing ABBA's "Super Trooper" when the Doctor again interrupts long enough to spot a mouse in the BBC studio.
  • The BBC7 radio series 7th Dimension begins broadcasting Barry Letts' audio book reading of his memoirs Who and Me, running over the course of the next seven weeks.
• 29 - For the first time since the original series ended, the stars of Doctor Who embark on a promotional tour for an upcoming season, with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan scheduled to make personal appearances in several cities accompanied by special screenings of DW: The Eleventh Hour. An appearance in Belfast occurs today.
  • UK release of the DVD box set Myths and Legends, including DW: The Time Monster, Underworld and The Horns of Nimon.
  • Doctor Who Classics Vol. 5, a graphic novel collecting more issues of the IDW series Doctor Who Classics is released in North America.
  • Production of Series 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures begins under new series producer Brian Minchin; Russell T Davies and new Doctor Who producer Nikki Wilson are executive producers.[27]
  • Submission deadline for the first of Big Finish's new Short Trips audio series.[28]
• 30 - The Series 5 promotional tour visits Inverness and Sunderland.
  • Steven Moffat is interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Front Row.
• 31 - The Series 5 promotional tour concludes in Salford and Northampton.
  • Matt Smith appears on Blue Peter.
  • DW: The Waters of Mars is rebroadcast on BBC Three.
  • BFA: Paradise 5 (The Lost Stories) is first released.
  • BFA: The Architects of History is first released.

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 2010 posting by the Doctor Who Information Network, Space is expected to broadcast the episode soon after.[29]
• CC: Shadow of the Past is scheduled for release.
• The BBC7 radio series 7th Dimension is scheduled to broadcast several of BBC Audio's audio-book versions of Target Books novelislations, read by Tom Baker. Scheduled to air in April: DWN: Doctor Who and the Giant Robot, DWN: Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius, and DWN: Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit.
• 01 - Doctor Who Adventures magazine is undergoes a relaunch to introduce the new Eleventh Doctor-era branding and new editorial features.
  • Guinness World Records recognizes Doctor Who Magazine, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2009, as the Longest Running Magazine Based on a Television Series.[30]
  • Matt Smith appears on One Show on BBC One.
  • DW: The Masque of Mandragora is released to DVD in Region 4.
• 01 - 03 - Big screen showings of DW: The Eleventh Hour are held in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Plymouth, and Swansea.
• 02 - BBC Radio 4 airs Douglas and the Doctor, a documentary on Douglas Adams’s influence on Doctor Who, hosted by Jon Culshaw.
  • Both parts of DW: The End of Time, along with the final David Tennant edition of Doctor Who Confidential, are rebroadcast on BBC Three.
  • The cast promote the new season: Karen Gillan appears on GMTV and CBBC, while Matt Smith is on BBC Radio 1's Chris Moyles show.
• 02 - 05 - The UK Sci Fi Channel broadcasts a marathon of classic Doctor Who, beginning with DW: The Ark in Space and ending with DW: Warriors of the Deep.
• 03 - DW: The Eleventh Hour is first broadcast, beginning Series 5, launching the Eleventh Doctor era and introducing Karen Gillan as Amy Pond. A new Doctor Who theme arrangement is introduced -- an unprecedented third arrangement for Murray Gold, along with the first on-screen use of the new Doctor Who logo and a new title sequence.
  • Doctor Who Confidential also returns for another season.[31]
  • K9TV: Regeneration, is rebroadcast on Disney XD in the UK, launching the first season of the spin-off series, K-9. The episode and the series also air on Ten in Australia.[32]
  • DW: The Eleventh Hour receives its North American premiere when it is shown during the 2010 WonderCon in San Francisco, two weeks ahead of broadcast.
• 03 - 04 - Space in Canada rebroadcasts DW: The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead and The Waters of Mars as a mini-marathon.
• 04 - K9TV: Liberation is first broadcast in the UK.
  • DW: The Eleventh Hour is rebroadcast on BBC Three.
• 05 - For the fifth consecutive year, Doctor Who is nominated in the Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form category at the Hugo Awards. Nominated this year: DW: The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead and The Waters of Mars, with the competing nominees being the TV series Dollhouse and FlashForward.
• 08 - The audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who - The Three Doctors is released.
  • The Canadian press screening for DW: The Eleventh Hour is held in Toronto. Steven Moffat participates in a Q&A conducted via Skype.
• 10 - DW: The Beast Below is first broadcast.
  • K9TV - The Korven is first broadcast in the UK.
  • In Canada, Space rebroadcasts both parts of DW: The End of Time as a single three-hour programme.
• 12 - Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Steven Moffat promote the launch of Series 5 in America by attending a presentation entitled Who's Next? The New Era of Doctor Who in New York City.
• 14 - In New York City, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan attend a BBC America screening of DW: The Eleventh Hour at the Village East Cinema.
  • In Canada, the cable network CBC Bold rebroadcasts DW: Journey's End. With the broadcast rights to the revival now resting with Space, this is expected to be the final CBC-related broadcast of Doctor Who, ending an association that began in 2005.
  • A volcanic eruption in Iceland proceeds to heavily disrupt air travel to, from, and within Europe. Among those later reported as "stranded" in the US is Karen Gillan[33], Matt Smith[34], and Steven Moffat[35], all of whom take the opportunity to attend events in the Los Angeles area after the conclusion of their East Coast press junket.
• 16 - DW: The Eleventh Hour is receives a third pre-broadcast US screening at the C2E2 convention in Chicago.
• 17 - DW: Victory of the Daleks is first broadcast. It is followed by a trailer for Doctor Who: The Adventure Games.
  • K9TV - The Bounty Hunter is first broadcast in the UK.
  • Series 5 begins airing on BBC America [36] and Space in Canada [37]. The BBC America broadcast sets a ratings record for the network.[38]
  • The BBC America and Space premieres are preceded by a documentary, Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide.
  • DW: The Eleventh Hour becomes available for viewing in Australia on the online iView service, ahead of the next day’s ABC1 broadcast.
• 18 - Series 5 begins in Australia with the broadcast of DW: The Eleventh Hour on ABC1.[39]
• 19 - The BBC Press Office announces that Katy Manning will be returning to the role of Jo Grant for a fourth season storyline of The Sarah Jane Adventures, an episode also to feature Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor.[40]
  • The read-through for the aforementioned reunion episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures is held in Cardiff. Matt Smith is unable to attend due to being stranded in the US by the Iceland volcano.[41]
• 21 - A press event attended by a number of new-design Daleks announces details of the upcoming Doctor Who: The Adventure Games videogame releases.[42]
  • The American FOX network announces it is dropping plans to produce a 13-episode, serialized series of Torchwood.[43]
• 22 - Publication of NSA: Apollo 23, NSA: Night of the Humans and NSA: The Forgotten Army, the first original novels featuring the Eleventh Doctor.
• 24 - DW: The Time of Angels is scheduled for broadcast.[44]
  • BBCR: The Runaway Train is scheduled for release as a promotional giveaway with copies of The Daily Telegraph (retail release, originally announced for June 2010, has been pushed back to 2011). This launches a weeklong promotion in the Telegraph which will see several previously released BBC Audio issues (BBCR: Pest Control, Slipback, the audio version of Genesis of the Daleks, Exploration Earth and the audio soundtrack to DW: Mission to the Unknown) made available again.
• 28 - Scheduled broadcast of the David Tennant version of Hamlet on PBS in the US.
• 29 - The Decide Your Destiny line continues with the scheduled release of Claws of the Macra and The Coldest War.
  • Scheduled UK publication of the Doctor Who Classics Omnibus from IDW Publishing.
  • Scheduled publication of the children's books Eleventh Doctor Regeneration Sticker Guide and Companion Activity Book.
• 30 - BFA: City of Spires is scheduled for release. This is the first of three dramas pairing the Sixth Doctor with Jamie McCrimmon.
  • BFA: Point of Entry (The Lost Stories) is scheduled for release.

May

• CC: The Time Vampire and CC: Night's Black Agents are scheduled for release.
• 01 - DW: Flesh and Stone is scheduled for broadcast.
  • REF: Doctor Who Funfax (2nd edition) is scheduled for publication.
  • REF: Time, Unincorporated 2 is scheduled for publication.
  • REF: Timeless Adventures: How Doctor Who Conquered TV is scheduled for publication.
• 04 - The Crimson Hand, the final omnibus of Tenth Doctor Doctor Who Magazine comic strips, is scheduled for publication.
  • Scheduled North American DVD release of DW: The Curse of Peladon and DW: The Monster of Peladon (released separately instead of as a box set as in the UK), as well as DW: The Masque of Mandragora.
• 06 - Scheduled release of the audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who - Mission to the Unknown.
• 08 - DW: The Vampires of Venice is broadcast.
• 15-16 - Scheduled publication of Deborah Watling's autobiography, Daddy's Girl (delayed from the original November 2009 publication date).
• 27 - REF: The Tardis Handbook is scheduled for publication.
• 28 - REF: The Science of Doctor Who is scheduled for publication.
• 29 - Scheduled North American publication of the Doctor Who Classics Omnibus from IDW Publishing.
• 31 - BFA: The Wreck of the Titan is scheduled for release.
  • BFA: The Song of Megaptera (The Lost Stories) is scheduled for release.

June

• CC: Solitaire is scheduled for release.
• Big Finish releases Jago and Litefoot Series One, a collection of four audio dramas featuring characters from DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang. Stories: The Bloodless Soldier by Justin Richards, The Bellova Devil by Alan Barnes, The Spirit Trap by Jonathan Morris, and The Similarity Engine by Andy Lane.
• 03 - BBCR: The Hounds of Artemis, the first original audio story featuring the Eleventh Doctor, is scheduled for release (delayed from 8 April 2010).
  • Scheduled release of the audio adaptation of DWN: Doctor Who - The Mutation of Time.
  • REF: Doctor Who: Intergalactic Survival Guide is scheduled for publication.
  • The children's books Doctor Who: Battle Badges Activity Book, Doctor Who: Top Secret Stories, Activities and Stickers! and Doctor Who: 3-D Mask Activity Book are scheduled for publication.
• 05 - The BBC is scheduled to release City of the Daleks, the first of four computer games for PC and Mac under the umbrella title Doctor Who: The Adventure Games. These games will feature the voices of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan.[45]
• 07 - Scheduled UK release of Doctor Who Series 5 - Volume 1, a "vanilla" DVD/Blu-Ray release featuring the first three Eleventh Doctor stories, DW: The Eleventh Hour, The Beast Below, and Victory of the Daleks. A featurette, The Monster Diaries is also planned.[46]
• 14 Scheduled UK release of the Kamelion DVD box set featuring DW: The King's Demons and Planet of Fire.
• 24 - REF: Doctor Who: The Episode Guide from Pocket Essentials is scheduled for publication.
• 30 - BFA: Legend of the Cybermen is scheduled for release, featuring the return of Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot.
  • BFA: The Macros (The Lost Stories) is scheduled for release.

July

• Production of the 6th series of the revived Doctor Who is scheduled to begin.[47]
• CC: The Guardian of the Solar System is scheduled for release.
• 06 - Scheduled Region 1 DVD release of DW: The Space Museum/The Chase (3-disc set, with The Chase edited to remove footage of The Beatles performing "Ticket to Ride"), along with The Time Monster, Underworld, and The Horns of Nimon which will be released individually rather than as the Myth & Legends box set as per the UK release.
• 22 - Scheduled publication of NSA: Adorable Illusion, NSA: Nuclear Time and NSA: The King's Dragon.
• 24-25 - Scheduled performance dates for the second Doctor Who at the Proms concert, to be hosted by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan and to be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 with later telecast on BBC Three.[48]
• 31 - BFA: Cobwebs is scheduled for release; this is the first of several audio dramas reuniting the 1983 cast of Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding and Mark Strickson

August

• CC: Echoes of Grey is scheduled for release.
• BBCR: Ring of Steel is scheduled for release.
• Doctor Who The Official Annual 2011 is scheduled for publication[49].
• 31 - BFA: The Whispering Forest is scheduled for release.

September

• CC: Find and Replace is scheduled for release. This Third Doctor story will feature both Jo Grant and Iris Wildthyme - both characters played by Katy Manning.
• 06 - DW: Time and the Rani is scheduled for DVD release in the UK.
• 30 - BFA: The Cradle of the Snake is scheduled for release.
  • BFA: yet-to-be-titled Seventh Doctor story is scheduled for release.

October

• CC: Invasion of E-Space is scheduled for release. This is Andrew Smith's first Doctor Who story since DW: Full Circle 30 years earlier.
• 05 - Scheduled Region 1 DVD release of DW: Dreamland (delayed from an original announced release date of 4 May), including the Doctor Who Greatest Moments documentary.[50]
• 07 - SJA audio original Wraith World is scheduled for release. [51]
• 18 - Scheduled UK DVD release of the Third Series of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
• 31 - BFA: Yet-to-be-titled Seventh Doctor story is scheduled for release.
  • REF: The Doctor's Monsters: Meanings of the Monstrous in Doctor Who is scheduled for publication.

Fall

• Announced broadcast timeframe for Series 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures on CBBC (subject to change)[[52].

November

• CC: A Town Called Fortune is scheduled for release, featuring the return of audio companion Evelyn Smythe.
• 30 - BFA: Yet-to-be-titled Seventh Doctor story is scheduled for release.

Late 2010

• An as-yet untitled Doctor Who novel by Michael Moorcock is scheduled for publication before Christmas.[53]
• Big Finish is scheduled to release the first of its Short Trips audio drama collections.[54]

December

• CC: Yet-to-be-titled First Doctor story is scheduled for release.
• BFA: The Four Doctors, a multi-Doctor adventure issued as an exclusive for Big Finish subscribers, is scheduled for release.
• According to an announcement made by IDW Publishing in February 2010, the final Tenth Doctor issue of its Doctor Who Ongoing series is scheduled to occur with issue #16 scheduled for publication this month.[55]
• 09 - Coronation Street, long Doctor Who's biggest competitor, marks its 50th anniversary of broadcast. Since September it has been the longest-running English language drama series in the world.
• Christmas - a yet-to-be-titled Doctor Who Christmas special is scheduled for broadcast.[56]