Doctor Who Season 6 News:
Head Writer: Steven Moffat
Steven previously wrote these amazing episodes:
The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances, The Girl in the Fireplace, Blink, Time Crash, The Eleventh Hour, The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang.
He also wrote the far less successful episode: The Beast Below, The Time of Angels / Flesh & Stone.
Executive Producers: Steven Moffat, Beth Willis & Piers Wenger
Producers: Sanne Wohlenberg (new), Marcus Wilson (new)
Production Designer: Edward Thomas
Composer: Murray Gold
Costume Designer: Barbara Kidd (new, but worked on Classic Who)
Art Director: Michael Pickwoad (new)
Special Effects: The Mill
Filming on series 6 should end in April 2011.
Writers:
Steven Moffat (Episodes 1-2, 7-8, 13)
Steve Thompson (Episode 3)
Neil Gaiman (Episode 4)
Matthew Graham (Episodes 5-6)
Mark Gatiss (Episode 9)
Directors:
Toby Haynes
Cast:
Matt Smith as The Doctor (11)
Karen Gillan as Amy Pond
Arthur Darvill as Rory Williams
Alex Kingston as River Song
Season Arc: The Silence & Who Is River Song?
The Silence will have ongoing significance in Series 6.
We see their physical form.
Their physical form is something that has already been established in many ways.
The Silence figured in Series 5 but Series 6 goes into the true terror and horror of their species and their needs.
"When last seen, he tumbled down a chimney on Christmas Eve and saved a bad man's soul, but darker days now lie ahead for the last of the Time Lords. The Silence, the unseen enemy who blew up his TARDIS last year, have laid deeper plans and set the deadliest trap of all - one that has been ticking away in the Doctor's life for longer than anyone knows. Newlyweds Amy & Rory are caught up in a century-spanning scheme, and somewhere in a storm-lashed prison, River Song is getting ready to tell the Doctor something that will change his life forever."
"By Lake Silencio, on the Plain of Sighs, a story will begin and end. A good man is going to die, an impossible life will begin, and our heroes will set out on the long road to the deadliest secret in the universe - and when it stares you in the face, you might just discover you've known about it all along."
6x01 The Impossible Astronaut [Part I]
6x02 Day of the Moon [Part II]
Written by Steven Moffat
Directed by Toby Haynes
Produced by Marcus Wilson
The Doctor returns, alongside newlyweds Amy & Rory, to face monsters and mysteries and adventures all across time and space...together they'll find themselves in sixties America, battling the invasion the world forgot.
River Song appears. Might tie into previous animated episode "Dreamland"; said to feature Men In Black, a Grey Alien, and Area 51, amongst other things.
Visits Washington D.C., Area 51, San Francisco, New York City. Set in a very, very peculiar moment in 20th-centurey American history. Basically an homage to America & American culture. Top of episode 2 features a montage of great American locations.
Also features what appears to be the time ship from "The Lodger".
6x03 The Curse of the Black Spot
Written by Steve Thompson
Directed by Jeremy Webb
Cast:
Hugh Bonneville as Avery
Lee Ross as Boatswain
Journey on the high seas of 1696 aboard a pirate ship to solve the mystery of the Siren.
6x04 The Doctor's Wife
Written by Neil Gaiman
Directed by Richard Clark
Produced by Sanne Wohlenberg
Cast:
Suranne Jones as Idris
Elizabeth Berrington as Auntie
Said to be full of humor, wit & whimsy...featuring a terrifying chase.
In a bubble universe at the edge of reality, the Doctor will meet an old friend with a new face.
"Fear me - I've killed hundreds of Time Lords."
"Fear me - I've killed all of them."
6x05 The Rebel Flesh [Part I]
6x06 The Almost People [Part II]
Written by Matthew Graham
Directed by Julian Simpson
In a monastery on a remote island in the near future, an industrial accident will take on a terrible human shape.
A story about an alien shape-changer and an industrial dispute. It's "The Thing" meets "Made in Dagenham".
Shot in various crumbling castles, The Rebel Flesh centers on an acid-mining operation in a 22nd-Century monastery where the dangerous work is done by doppelgangers cloned in a flesh bowl. Matt Smith's Doctor and newly-wed co-flyers Amy & Rory gatecrash the party when a TARDIS trip to Whitby gets mysteriously slammed off-course. Then a storm hits and the whole shebang screeches off-piste.
6x07 A Good Man Goes to War [Part I] (Spring Season Finale)
Written by Steven Moffat
Directed by Peter Hoar
6x08 [Part II] (Fall Season Premiere)
Written by Steven Moffat
Directed by Richard Senior
Cast:
Simon Fisher-Becker as Dorium Maldavar (from "The Pandorica Opens")
Danny Sapani as Colonel Manton
Alex Kingston as River Song
Dan Starkey as Strax (a Sontaran)
And waiting for them, at the end of all this, is the battle of Demon's Run, and the Doctor's darkest hour. Can even the truth about River Song save the Time Lord's soul? Only two things are certain. Silence will fall. And a good man is going to die...
"Want to find the most dangerous place in the universe? Easy. Harm a hair on Amy's head and just wait. But as the last of the Time Lords and the Lone Centurion blaze across galaxies to save the woman in both their lives, history is unfolding. In her cell, in Stormcage, River Song knows the time has come at last. She has a secret and this is the day she tells it. The battle of Demons Run has begun and the Doctor's darkest hour is now.
Huge story for 11, Amy, Rory & River.
It's rumored that these episodes will reveal huge truths about all 4 characters.
Said to be a game-changer. Amy has a terrible secret; something to do with the true nature of the relationship between her and the Doctor. There's also said to be an appalling revelation concerning the one person in the universe the Doctor trusts the most. The relationship with River Song will be revealed. The Doctor's life changes forever. And Rory stumbles to the brink of a terrible mistake. Sounds awesome!
Dorium (the blue guy from "The Pandorica Opens" who got River the Vortex Manipulator) will return.
The Stormcage Prison Facility (River's Prison) returns here.
Rumored to feature the Clerics from "The Time of Angels" / "Flesh and Stone".
Features a Sontaran named Strax. (though this appearance might be in a different episode actually)
The Cybermen return.
Also rumored to feature the headless monks, mentioned as having found their finale resting place in the Delirium Archive - the museum that Amy & 11 visited in "The Time of Angels".
6x09 Night Terrors
Written by Mark Gatiss
Directed Richard Clark
Produced by Sanne Wohlenberg
Rumored to be about scary dolls.
6x10 The Green Anchor
Written by Tom MacRae
Directed by Nick Hurran
6x11 The God Complex
Written by Toby Whithouse
Directed by Nick Hurran
6x12 ???
Written by Gareth Roberts
Directed by Steve Hughes
6x13 ???
Written by Steven Moffat
Directed by Jeremy Webb
Doctor Who 2011 Christmas Special ???