The Doctor From Gallifrey 

The date for the return of Doctor Who and the return of Series 7 has been announced! The 8 episode run begins on Easter Saturday, Saturday 30th March! 

You can find out more about the episode to come on our series 7 page!

[Source: BBC Doctor Who]

More details on the Doctor Who episodes airing in 2013 were revealed at the Toy Fair in London. They were as follows: 

• Series 7 Part 2 (8 Episodes / Spring 2013)
• 50th Anniversary Special (1 x 60 minutes / Autumn 2013)
• An Adventure in Space and Time (1 x 90 minutes / Autumn 2013)
• Doctor Who Revisited (11 x 25 minutes / throughout year)

Freema Agyeman has ruled out a return to Doctor Who for the 50th Anniversary special. 

In an interview with Crave Online she said: "I'm doing two things for the 50th but nothing to do with being in the drama. I got misquoted hideously once saying that there are some rumblings going on about being involved in the 50th in terms of the drama. It's not. It's in terms of conventions and interviews and things like that, which we're all doing stuff to promote the 50th. We have to. It's the Doctor Who family and we want to." 

So there you have it, no Martha for the 50th Anniversary special. Which we can't say is a huge surprise, we think it's unlikely that companions will come back, although there's still a chance of a Multi-Doctor episode! 

[Source: Digital Spy]

This is Moffatgate as the internet has decided it's called. Steven "the Moff" Moffat, current Doctor Who exec producer and showrunner, has left Twitter. The online fanbase have gone wild with speculation about why this is. 

Sue Vertue, the Moff's wife, tweeted that Moffat "is well and currently having a family lunch but he's got a huge amount on and twitter was proving a distraction".  

We think this seems fair enough but is there more to it. Well Moffat had been asking the day before how to limit @replies and he did get a lot of abuse. Whether that caused him to leave Twitter or not is impossible to tell. We hope it's not the case and that Moffat is just really busy. He does have the rest of series 7 to finish, the 50th anniversary to sort out and the next series of Sherlock, probably amongst other things as well. S

Still, it's perfectly ok for you to have opnions, even negative ones we suppose, but there's no need to be abusive to people is there? 

A new trailer for Doctor Who series 7 is now online. It features footage from episodes 1-5 of the new series (though as far as we can gather nothing from episode 4). Watch it here!

It is with great sadness that we must report the death of another Doctor Who companion. Mary Tamm played the Fourth Doctor's companion Romana for six stories, which many fans consider to be amongst the best episodes of all time. Her character was intentionally different from the typical companion, with Romana being a Time Lady forced upon the Doctor by the Time Lords. The Doctor originally resented her but gradually grew to consider her a friend. 

She also took on many roles on the stage and on many other TV shows including: The Likely Lads, Coronation Street, The Return of the Saint, Bergerac, Casualty, Jonathan Creek, Wire in the Blood, Brookside, Doctors, Paradise Heights and Eastenders. 

Mary Tamm was a fantastic actress who helped create one of the greatest eras in Doctor Who history. She will forever be remembered.

[Source: Cultbox]

It looks like the Doctor Who logo has once again been tweaked a little. This new version was added to the Official site today. It is a different colour and the DW has been shifted from the left to the right. 

[Source: BBC Doctor Who]

A whole load of little news pieces have come our way over the last few days. None of them major but we thought you might like to see them all the same: 

• Two new Doctor Who books are coming out in Septmeber. A graphic novel by Justin Richards called "The Dalek Project" and a book called "The History of the Universe in 100 Objects". The covers are below and you can read full synopsis of them both here.

• BBC3 started repeated series 6 again tonight. Check out the schedules to see when the episodes are on and watch them on afterwards on BBC iPlayer. 

• Spider-man star Andrew Garfield has been speaking fondly about his guest role in Doctor Who (Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks). Story here.

• Noel Clarke (Mickey Smith) has been talking to Digital Spy about the possibility of returning to the show for the 50th Anniversary.

• John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness) has been given the title of "Rear of the Year". Story here.

It is with great sadness that we report that Caroline John, best known as Doctor Who's Liz Shaw, passed away earlier this month age 71. Liz Shaw was the first companion of the Third Doctor in the 7th series of Doctor Who. Her character helped viewers adjust to a new Doctor and one exiled to Earth and having no choice but to work for UNIT. 

She reprised the role in The Five Doctors and again, though unofficially, in Mark Gatiss' PROBE spin-offs. She appeared in many other roles across the years too, everything from Z-Cars to the film Love Actually. 

Steven Moffat said: ‘Caroline was a brilliant actress and in her role as Liz Shaw, a tremendous co-star for Jon Pertwee in his first year as the Doctor. She was not just a sidekick but a scientist in her own right and a match for the universe's number one know-all. The Doctor's companions should never be his assistants - they're the people who keep him on his toes, and that's what Caroline did. From everyone at the show, our thoughts go out to Caroline’s family.’

RIP Caroline John 1940-2012

[Source: BBC]

According to The Mail on Sunday, Ron Grainer's Doctor Who theme will be one of 4 TV themes that will be played at the London Olympics Opening ceremony. 

The newspaper went on about the use of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax" and The Sex Pistol's "God Save the Queen" but it included the full list of songs. The other TV themes are the 1954 BBC News theme, the Coronation Street theme and Sousa's Liberty Bell March (a.k.a the Monty Python theme). 

We don't know which of the many versions will be used yet and it's making us wonder whether there will be a reference to the show in the ceremony itself. It's not alttogether unlikely for a dalek to pop up somewhere is it? Just a thought!

[Source: SciFi Bulletin]