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Doctor Who's executive producer, Steven Moffat has been busy countering rumours that the BBC’s commitment to the show is waning.
Following the announcement that there will be two series of Doctor Who in 2011, Moffat, writing in Doctor Who Magazine, Moffat addresses the issue, saying that fans worry too much: "I know this because I’ve been a fan since 1963. My favourite rumour is that this is the BBC’s cunning plan to reduce the number of episodes. Right. Okay. . . It’s the BBC’s cunning plan to reduce the number of episode, by going to the extraordinary and fiendish lengths of . . . making exactly the same number of episodes! Quite honestly, you could go over that one a million times and it still wouldn’t work. My least favourite rumour: this is the BBC’s cunning (but slightly generous) plan to give me enough time to work on Sherlock as well. Okay. . . The BBC in their cunning and generosity have decided to reduce my workload by the devilishly clever stratagem of . . . making no difference to my workload whatsoever." It was, in fact, Moffat’s idea to have two series of Doctor Who next year, in order to accommodate a “huge cliffhanger” that they wouldn’t normally consider at the end of a series, “because it would be too long before it came back this is an enormous, game-changing cliffhanger for the Doctor, Amy and Rory. It will change everything for them. You will see the Doctor’s life change forever, you will gasp in astonishment at the true nature of his relationship with Amy and you will cry out in horror as Rory Williams stumbles to the brink of a tragic mistake."
Doctor Who will return to TV screens at Christmas in what Moffat describes as “the most Christmassy Christmas story ever”. The as-yet-untitled episode also stars Sir Michael Gambon (who plays Dumbledore in the harry Potter movies) and the Welsh opera singer, Katherine Jenkins, in her first acting role. Before then viewers can see Smith’s eleventh Doctor star alongside two of his former companions, Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and Jo Grant (Katy Manning) in the Who spin-off drama, The Sarah Jane Adventures, in a story, Death of the Doctor, written by Russell T Davies (Torchwood). Manning – who played opposite Jon Pertwee’s third Doctor in the early 1970s – reprises her TV role after nearly forty years.
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