The Doctor From Gallifrey 

- Showrunner Steven Moffat has talked about the show's 50th anniversary. “I’ve got various plans, but all I can say emphatically is it will be huge,” Steven Moffat tells TVLine.

“It won’t be just one thing…. We’ll be doing lots of stuff,” is all Moffat would concede. “The plans are quite extensive, and changing all the time. Oh my God, we will hit that year very, very hard indeed.”

And what did he say when he was asked if other Doctor's would return? “Possibly…. It’s so far in the future, it’s only a set of notions,”.

- BBC books have unveiled some new titles that will be released on the 13th October. The first is an updated version of the Doctor Who Encyclopedia. It covers every episode from 2005 onwards, including the Eleventh Doctor's first two series. The second is The Brilliant Book 2012, the official guide to series 6. There is more info and images here.

- Torchwood: Miracle Day will now air in New Zealand at some point in the future as it has been aquired by Prime.

- Karen Gillan is to star in new independent comedy film "Not Another Happy Ending".  Gillan plays a beautiful but eccentric writer of miserable, but best selling fiction who’s blocked on her latest novel since she became successful and happy. In a bid to break her block, her publisher (played by Emun Elliott) sets about trying to make her life more miserable, only to realize he is in love with her.

Production is set for late 2011/early 2012 which begs the question when will series 7 be filmed? And perhaps we won't see Amy Pond as a proper companion next year?

- Matt Smith has said: "I’m shooting for the title of the actor who played the Doctor the longest. Now, that’s a title I’d be proud to have."  Excellent news!

- Eight Doctor Pal McGann is starring in BBC1 crime drama "New Tricks" next week (9PM 8th Aug, BBC1)

- Sky Atlantic have released new images of David Tennant in new comedy "This is Jinsy" as Mr Slightlyman: an outrageously camp wedding planner with a penchant for plastic surgery. Pictures here.

- Steven Moffat has hinted  that the show will eventually return to featuring more stand-alone episodes, rather than the current focus on long-term story arcs.

Speaking at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Moffat commented: "Tradition is the enemy of suspense. It's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything... It will always push back towards the anthology model. We've just amped it up to see what would happen."

- Tracy Ann-Oberman, who played head of Torchwood One Yvonne Hartman, has been interviewed by Cultbox. She talks briefly about the role and being mistaken for Alex Kingston (River Song).

"I do, I get mistaken for Alex Kingston all the time! I always have done, ever since she was in Moll Flanders. Then she was in ER and I did a stint in Casualty and everybody would get us confused.

"Now she’s in Doctor Who I get loads of her fan mail, I get stopped in the street regularly and I get masses of tweets! ‘I love you as River’, ‘I love you in Doctor Who’, ‘I love your hair’, ‘I love you in this’, ‘you were brilliant in that’... and then people get us completely mistaken and both of our careers sort of merge into one! "

Full interview here.

- An hour long documentary about Doctor Who's fandom has been created by Fanz. The film covers the vast spectrum of fandom including Conventions, Fan Fiction, Artwork, Merchandise, the Internet, Professional Fans and the dedicated following of Doctor Who. And best of all you can watch it online, for free, here!

- Despite it being only July, the cover of the Doctor Who 2012 annual has been unveiled. Here it is:

- Last night's BBC version of the Torchwood: Miracle Day episode had a short sexual scene cut from it. You can watch said scene here if you want to!

- An international version of BBC iPlayer has been launched on iPad today for parts of Europe. The application enables those in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Ireland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland to watch a variety of programming from the BBC's archive, including Doctor Who. 

- Classic Series Actor, Robert Cartland (Rills in 'Galaxy 4' & Malpha in 'Mission to the Unknown') has died. R.I.P. 

- Karen Gillan's interview on Craig Ferguson is finally possible to watch online. Here it is:

 

- Cultbox is offering you the chance to win a set of 12 Doctor Who and Torchwood novels. Details on what exactly you win and how to enter are here.

- Episode 3 of Torchwood: Miracle Day, "Dead of Night" airs in the UK today at 9PM on BBC1.  

- David Tennant fans are getting excited about his role as Peter Vincent in the upcoming movie "Fright Night" after a new trailer and images have been released. Trailer here.

- Tom Macrae has revealed three new quotes from his upcoming episode of Doctor Who on Twitter. They are:

“How can you have a door without a wall?”

“The Green Anchor…The Red Waterfall.”

“You want to update Twitter!?””

- John Barrowman has said something that will no dobut anger some Torchwood fans: that Ianto Jones will not be returning to the series. 

"I think we have moved on," Barrowman explained. "Torchwood creator Russell T Davies explains it better - he says we couldn't have transplanted the show in the States and brought the entire company with it. People had to die!"

- Youtube user grlia has made a Hitler Reaction Video where Hitler reacts to finding out that Rory will punch him in the face (seen in series6b trailer). Here's the awesome video:

- Today's daily update focuses heavily on Episode 10 of series 6, "The Girl Who Waited" by Tom Macrae. 

- Matt Smith has this to say about said episode: It's this mad, trippy, Kubrick-y sort of episode. But that's what Doctor Who at it's best should be. I think that's what they had in the '70's [and] that's what episode ten... does. It feels really trippy and weird." 

-Macrae has recently joined Twitter (@tommacwriter) and has today been giving some small teaser for his episode: 

"My ep was NEVER called 'The Green Anchor', but the Green Anchor is very, VERY important! And also the best place to be." 

"Amy's favourite cat was called Biggles. What's important is - that's the name she DIDN'T use later on..." 

- In other news, Moffat spoke about a Madame Vastra spin-off after the success of the character in "A Good Man Goes to War".  

“I instantly pitched it to Ben Stephenson [Controller, Drama Commissioning],” showrunner Steven Moffat exclusively tells SFX. “He just said ‘…Yes!’. And then I said ‘I obviously don’t have time to do this…’ [laughs].”

“I think I might revisit them,” reveals Moffat. “They were great fun to write. Obviously the first person to think about a spin-off was me, when I was writing ‘A Good Man Goes To War’… A Victorian Silurian? Her lesbian maid? Come on!

“I was pleased by the reaction to them, but not surprised. They really cut through as characters, given how little screentime they had. I certainly wouldn’t be averse to them returning. It’s just a thing that worked, isn’t it? I love that Victorian setting, and having kicked it out of Sherlock Holmes I can always kick it in somewhere else!”

Boy, did we pick a bad weekend to not be able to update the site. It was perhaps the biggest weekend for Doctor Who news of the year. Here's our roundup of all the latest stuff!

- Series 6 Part 2 will return to BBC America on 27th August and quite possibly the UK then too. A new trailer has been released for the second half of the series featuring Churchill, Hitler, Craig Owens, River Song, Silence, Cybermen, Weeping Angels and a load of new monsters. Blimey! You can watch that exciting new video below and on our trailers page.

 

- A new clip from Episode 11 "The God Complex" has been unveiled too. We didn't put it here for the sake of spoilers but if you want to watch it do so here! 

- Karen Gillan has said that she is staying with Doctor Who for the forseeable future and will be there for next series. It's nice to have a companion that actually sticks around! 

- Details about a new Adventure Game have been unveiled. It is to be called "The Gunpowder Plot" and there are more details on our mini-episodes page! 

- Episode 10, the one by Tom Macrae, is to be titled "The Girl Who Waited". 

As far as we are aware that's it for now, but it sure does make us excited about the rest of series 6! In the coming week we shall be launching a proper page for the Adventure Games and creating some special timelines of River Song and Jack Harkness. 

Site

- Our site has regenerated, and it's still not ginger! Yesterday we rolled out a new look and it looks brilliant if we do say so ourselves. If you notice anything that's not working please let us know (tweet us on @gallifrey6)

- This shall be the last update until Monday I'm afraid because our sitemaster has suddenly been called away for the weekend and will not have internet access. There will however be a special weekend update on Monday evening. 

News

- Caroline Skinner has been announced as the Beth Willis' replacement as executive producer. Steven Moffat says: "The exec joining me on Doctor Who is Caroline Skinner - fresh from the wonderful Five Days, and still finishing up on a brand new show called The Fades (a fantasy horror series, written by Jack Thorne - I've seen episode 1, and it's BRILLIANT.)" 

- Moffat has also teased us a little about the 2011 Christmas Special: "I think I spent the entire budget on the first page. A baptism of fire for Caroline Skinner. Literally fire. And aliens!" 

- Christopher Eccleston has elaborated on why he left Doctor Who. “I left Doctor Who because I could not get along with the senior people. I left because of politics. I did not see eye-to-eye with them. I didn’t agree with the way things were being run. I didn’t like the culture that had grown up, around the series. So I left, I felt, over a principle." Full interview here.

- And that's not the only Eccleston news of the week. It has emerged that he was another of the victim's of phone hacking by News of the World, the newspaper that is being investigated for such things at the moment. This happened back in 2005 when he was playing the Doctor. He is pursuing legal action against News International, the parent company of News Of The World.

Releases

- The first prequel novel to Torchwood: Miracle Day is released today. It is called "First Born" and tells us what happened to Gwen and Rhys between Children of Earth and Miracle Day. More on these prequels on our TW novels page.

- Issue 227# of Doctor Who Adventures is released today. It focuses on the headless monks and has a free "dalek disc shooter". 

- The cover for the next issue of Doctor Who Magazine has been revealed. You can view it in our covers album here. It goes on sale next Thursday. 

- It was announced today that renowned sci-fi author Alastair Reynolds is writing a Doctor Who novel that will feature the Third Doctor, his companion Jo Grant and the Master called "Harvest of Time". More info on his blog here.

TV

- Episode 2 of Torchwood: Miracle Day "Rendition" will air on BBC1 tonight at 9PM. It's a cracker so don't miss it!

News

- Yesterday it was reported that the BBC has cut a scene from an upcoming episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day. However, saying an entire scene has been cut is a bit of an overstatement and it seems that actually only ten seconds have been cut so you get to see a bit of naked Barrowman if that's your thing. Full details about this on Cultbox. 

- Today fifth Doctor Peter Davidson appeared on BBC Breakfast and discussed Doctor Who and the former Time Lords in his family. You can watch the video below

- On Friday the 5th August the team from Doctor Who Adventures magazine will be appearing at the Doctor Who experience to demonstrate how the magazine is made.There will be four sessions lasting one hour each, starting at 11.30am. 30 places are available at each session.The hour will be split into two sessions

1 - Create your magazine (with the Doctor Who Adventures team)

2 - Comic masterclass (with John Ross, the Doctor Who Adventures comic artist)

Today in "Who History"

- Two years ago today series 5 of Doctor Who began filming. Wow!

- 41 years ago today, men first walked on the moon. And it was also the day that the Doctor defeated the Silence using the human subconsious. 

TV

- Cold Blood, episode 9 of series 5 is repeated tonight at 7PM on BBC3. It is the second half of a story featuring the silurians. 

- Steven Moffat's other hit show, Sherlock, begins a run of repeats tonight on BBC at 8:30PM.

- If you missed Matt Smith's interview on Alan Carr: Chatty Man last week you can watch it tonight on E4 at 11PM.