It’s been confirmed now how Doctor Who’s 7th season will unwind.
The season starts on September 1, on both the BBC and BBC
America.
They’ll air five episodes, Asylum of the Daleks, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, A Town Called Mercy,
The Power of Three (once called Cubed)
and The Angels Take Manhattan.
Then the series will take a break and return Christmas Day
with the episode introducing the new companion. The series then will take another break and
return in the spring for the final 8 episodes.
Writer Mark Gatiss has penned a 90 minute movie called Adventures in Time and Space, a
docu-drama on creation on Doctor Who which will air sometime close to the series
anniversary in 2013. Other specials are planned, another Proms, but nothing is
concrete. It’s also been reported that Matt Smith has signed on for at least
part of season 8, which would air in 2014. While that seems cool, it does not
clarify how much of season eight he’ll appear in. Speculating that 2013 is a "gap season" and that season eight
will have the same broadcast schedule for 2012, if Smith is signed on through 2014, he
could leave halfway through the run, regenerating into the 12th
Doctor in 2015.
Or, of course, he could appear in all 14 episodes of season
8, and it will start in the fall of 2013 and then regenerate. But like everything that comes out of the BBC, nothing will
be confirmed until almost the last minute. Consider the US broadcast fall
schedule; all the networks announced the start back in June. The BBC is just announcing
the start of Doctor Who only 2 weeks before it starts.
Go figure.
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