The Doctor From Gallifrey 

After some rumours, it has now been confirmed that award-winning children's novelist and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce is the final writer for Doctor Who Series 8. The episode will feature a cast of child actors including Harley Bird (the voice of Peppa Pig), alongside Abigail Eames (Harry And Paul, The Crimson Field), Ashley Foster (The Woman In Black) and Jaydon Harris-Wallace (CITV Text Santa).

Boyce said:“Of all the thrills that pen and paper have brought into my life, there’s nothing that quite compares to the buzz of unlimited possibility that rushes through your fingers and into your brain when you write the words: ‘Interior … TARDIS’.”

“I was flabbergasted to be asked to write an episode - partly because I’ve been so absorbed in the last few series that I’d sort of forgotten that it wasn’t real.”

[Source: BBC Media Centre]