WE knew it was going to happen sooner or later.
But it’s sad news all the same.
Doctor Who stars Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, who play Amy and Rory Pond, are to leave the show in the next series.
The revelation came out of the blue in the middle of a Q&A session at BBC TV Centre in west London tonight (Thursday).
DOCTOR Who supremo Steven Moffat:
“There are more beginnings and more endings this series than you’re perhaps ready for.”
“Assuming an intelligent audience is a good idea. Clearly going by our ratings it’s a successful idea. They are clever. They will get it.”
“I think you’ve got to be challenging and difficult and on the edge all the time.”
Lead writer, executive producer and showrunner Steven after last night’s exclusive big screen preview of Let’s Kill Hitler.
Or in other words, Doctor Who series six, episode eight to be broadcast by BBC1 on Saturday August 27 after the mid-series break.
With Mr M revealing: “My younger son said, ‘Won’t Hitler be offended?’”
MATT Smith summed it up at tonight’s press launch for the new series of Doctor Who:
“I think that’s great television – it’s certainly not a part I want to give up anytime soon.”
Episodes one and two of season six provide the darkest – and scariest – opening ever to a Doctor Who series.
Ninety minutes of sometimes quite astonishing television containing secrets that cannot yet be told.
Gathered at London’s Kensington Olympia, current home of the Doctor Who Experience, we were shown the two-part opener – The Impossible Astronaut and Day Of The Moon.
Followed by a 30-minute on stage Q&A with writer and showrunner Steven Moffat, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan (Amy Pond), Alex Kingston (River Song) and Arthur Darvill (Rory), chaired by the Daily Telegraph’s Neil Midgley.
You will find some spoilers below but, I hope, nothing major to detract from your enjoyment of watching these two episodes for yourself.
“HALF way out of the dark…”
The BFI Southbank in London tonight for a preview screening of the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas Special – A Christmas Carol.
Followed by a Q&A – chaired by journalist Caitlin Moran – with Matt Smith, who plays the 11th Doctor, Katherine Jenkins, who guest stars as Abigail Pettigrew, plus lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat.
Which was later thrown open to the audience, including a fishy question from Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) in the stalls.
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