**Spoilers** Steven Moffat Drops More Hints On Series 6

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Lots of speculation for Doctor Who series six lies within this post, as Steven Moffat has been dropping massive hints about Amy Pond…

BE WARNED:
This story contains massive hints dropped by Steven Moffat that will cause lots of speculation. There's not an outright spoiler as such, but as usual, if you like to watch Doctor Who cold, then look away now...

Next year is shaping up to be one hell of a year for Doctor Who. The splitting of the sixth series of the show since its 2005 revival into two chunks is, as we know, going to be accompanied by a humdinger of a cliffhanger after episode seven (which is where the break is timed to fall, ahead of the final six episodes towards the end of 2011). And there might just have been a few clues as to what to expect coming from the man behind the show.

Seriously, if you don’t want potential spoilers – even though this is all speculation based on the words of Steven Moffat – then look away now.

The Moff has told Doctor Who Magazine that there is a massive, massive twist coming up in the next series of the show. And it’s all to do with Amy Pond.
Moffat declared that "The calamitous and, frankly, shocking events at the climax of episode seven will still be ringing in your ears when Doctor Who returns in the autumn for a further six episodes."
He continued, “You’ll see The Doctor’s life change forever. You will gasp at the true nature of his relationship with Amy and cry out in horror as Rory Williams stumbles to the brink of a tragic mistake.”

To reinforce the point, he added that “It is an enormous, game-changing cliffhanger for The Doctor, Amy and Rory. It’ll change everything for them.”

Let the speculation begin, then. The potential options, as we see them, and this is guesswork on our part, are that Amy is the daughter of the Doctor (even though she doesn’t look much like Georgia Moffett, but apparently there was a request – according to some – that the character of Jenny, aka ‘The Doctor’s Daughter’ not be killed off), or that there is some family relationship there?
Could, even, Amy be River Song in another guise? Could she be River's child? Could she have married the Doctor at some point? Could we find out why she is the person in the universe the Doctor apparently trusts the most (for Moffat also says that there is "The frankly appalling revelation concerning the one person in the universe the Doctor trusts the most", which we'd assume to be Amy. But we might be wrong).
Or heck, is she going to pull some Valeyard-esque stuff on us?

Right now, your guess is as good as ours. But it doesn’t half whet our appetite for the next series of the show…

Steven Moffat on those "BBC is ready to ditch The Doctor" rumors.

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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.

Steven Moffat Drops Hints About DW Xmas Special

Doctor Who' executive producer Steven Moffat has promised fans they are in for a ''big Christmas treat'' when the sci-fi show returns in December.

The BBC sci-fi show's executive producer and lead writer Steven Moffat is hugely excited about the upcoming episode and claims he has created a festive story he would love to watch. He said: "This episode is incredibly Christmassy. That's true of the previous ones but I wanted to go for broke. It's easily the most Christmassy thing you'll ever see. It's a huge, sentimental, lovely, jeopardy-driven story. It's the Christmas special I'd like to see. It's like a compilation of every Christmas movie - a big Christmas treat. But that doesn't mean it's without scares, and that doesn't mean it's without heartbreak. It has genuine tragedy in it."
The episode will see opera singer Katherine Jenkins and 'Harry Potter' star Michael Gambon join Matt Smith, who portrays The Doctor, and Karen Gillan, who plays companion Amy Pond, for the adventure.

Moffat also revealed fans of the show will finally find out who the mysterious character River Song is in the 2011 series.

In an extract from 'Doctor Who: The Brilliant Book', he revealed: "You're going to find out very soon, and that means we have to do it next series, really. The critical thing here is I want to explain who she is, not explain away who she is. If you don't deliver on most people's expectations, and you just say, 'Ooh, she's a specially programmed android who believes she's The Doctor's wife,' people will go, 'That's a cheat.' You can't do that. "It's a really good story, and it's sort of the story of next year."

River Song - who is played by Alex Kingston - has been a recurring character since the series returned to screens in 2005. She first appeared in the episodes 'Silence in the Library' and 'Forest of the Dead' - opposite Tenth Doctor David Tennant - before returning last series to star opposite Matt. Speculation has been rife to what is her true identity, with one rumour she is The Doctor's wife in the future.

Doctor Who's Steven Moffat and Karen Gillan on plans for new series

The new series of Doctor Who will be split into two for the first time ever, the show's executive producer and writer Steven Moffat has revealed.

Moffat also promised the programmes biggest ever cliffhanger – "an earth-shattering climax", is to come, whilst speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.

Next year's 13-part series, the sixth since Doctor Who returned in 2005, will run for seven episodes and then return in the autumn for another six.

Moffat said the Easter "mid-season finale" would be a "game-changing cliffhanger".

He added that next year's Doctor Who would run as two separate series, allowing him to double the number of "event episodes" in the new run, and meant fans would never be more than a few months away from the next instalment of the hit BBC1 show.

Speaking about his plans for the show Moffat explained:"What I love about this idea is that when kids see Doctor Who go off the air, they will be noticeably taller when it comes back. It's an age for children. With an Easter series, an autumn series and a Christmas special, you are never going to be more than few months from the new series of Doctor Who.

"Tart that I am, we will now have two first nights and two finales, twice as many event episodes as we had before."

Meanwhile when we caught up with Moffat and Karen Gillan, who plays the doctor's assistant Amy Pond, we asked; if they could be a TV character for the day who would they be and why?

Being the passionate showrunner that he is Moffat replied: "I would obviously obviously be Doctor Who. What other choice is there? He can be everybody else!"

Meanwhile, the beautiful Karen Gillan opted for the slightly unusual option of David Brent from The Office, asking us "Don't you think we're similar?"

Gillan revealed the monsters she finds scariest on the show are: "the weeping angels – so far; they might be topped in the new series."

She explained "It's because you don't actually see them do anything so it's kind of left to your imagination which can run wild and it involves the dark and it involves looking at the thing you're very scared of an I just think it's a really genius invention."

Well, at least it won't be the Eurovision to blame for the break in the shows run next year!!