UPDATED: New details of Doctor Who series 7

I have HAD it with these mother%#@$ing dinosaurs on this mother%&#$ing spaceship!
*let history record that I was the first to do that joke*

LOL! The one (and pretty much only) thing I am disapointed about in the Moffat era is the episode titles, Asylum of the Daleks is by the book and DoaS folows the hypabolic trend of Lets Kill Hitler! and The Wedding of River Song. The only title that had me really interested was The God Complex.

Compare that with the likes of The Unquiet Dead, The Empty Child, Midnight, The Waters of Mars, The Impossible Planet, The Fires of Pompeii...

Then again, there's awesome Moffat titles like "Silence in the Library" and "Day of the Moon". If the episode titles are your only gripe, I'd say you're lucky.

Dinosaurs On A Spaceship

Sploosh.

This titling episodes thing is a bit odd over all really, they just used to be "episode 4".

The trend clearly started in the states, but when? The first show I can really remember noticing the titles for was Friends.
Now they each need a title which is mainly useful for referring to them later on, it doesn't really have any relevance to the actual show. He could name them after root vegetables for all I care, as long as the shows stay as good.

Steven Moffat, the man who killed Doctor Who

Hold hard everybody, the TARDIS will be appearing on our televisions imminently and we will have our reveal of whatever became of Amy and Rory.Come Along Ponds.I'm not participating in any scepticism about Chibnalls stories but i suspect i'm going to enjoy the cubed episode more because it seems more of a character piece focussing on Amy and Rory's relationship and the mysterious cubes could be distant relatives of the Thingamajigs from 60's Avengers.Still , Dinosaurs on a Spaceship will really demand some hefty cgi time to be really effective.

What about "The Impossible Astronaut"? Wasn't that a "full-blooded Western"?

Does 'Dinosaurs on a Spaceship' mean that Adric is coming back?

I just can't get excited about the new stuff anymore,Moffet has killed it for me with all the longwinded storylines, i spend most of an episode trying to explain to my kids what is going on.

After a while it gets SO tedious.

Not really...

Or you could think of it as a return to the Hartnell days in the 60s when before they changed to episode numbers they had...you guessed it..episode titles.

RE: when the switch happened though, ST:TNG had ep titles, and that was 1987 so it's at least earlier than that (although the original series also had them so I dunno hat that means in context).

Then I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but you either have stupid kids or you think you have stupid kids, and they actually understand. Well there is a third option, they could just not be interested in the show. But no one who is paying full attention could possibly be lost or confused, they're not that hard to understand, they just contain a lot of twists to make the stories more interesting.

What has happened to Doctor Who ?. Since Steven Moffat took over it has gone down the pan. Fans have to wait several months between each season and where do they get these absurd titles from, I mean " Dinosaurs on a spaceship". Was that dreamed up by a six year old?. As for Matt Smith, what is this " Wibbly, wobbly, timey. wimey, explodey wodey" stuff all about. Is it from an old script for Play school or is he inspired by the late and much missed Jon Perwee as Worzel Gummidge and Tommy cooper with his Fez?. Sadly Doctor who is heading for oblivion and Steven Moffat is sending it there. Next time, it will not be given a reprieve.

This is Sad so we only get 5 or 6 eps this year. then for the 50th year anniversary only 8 eps wow the bbc keeps screwing us fans. cancel the show or give us full seasons

Moan moan moan....

Errr what? There has been only one delayed series, and it's the exact same number of epiosdes. It's already been announced that specials are filming for the anniversary so at the absolute minimum that's 8 episodes next year and a single special; it seems *very* unlikely there will be less than a full 13 episode series though.

I don't know if you're British or not but if you are you should be aware of the extreme budget issues the BBC is currently facing; existing dramas have been shortened or cancelled, and the number of new ones commissioned has been lower. Although this took place at the same time Moffat took over it would hardly be fair to blame him for the freezing of the licence fee or the BBC absording the world service. Doctor Who is increasingly depedent on revenue brought back from BBC Worldwide... and it's just been announced today that BBC Worldwide profit, largely thanks to Doctor Who, is way up. Which bodes very well for next year.

Or for those of us who disliked the RTD era...
"Steven Moffat, the man who saved Doctor Who"
Swings and roundabouts really.

Sorry, that reply was meant to be to dan kirkman

Do you mean the trend of showing the episode title on the screen? Because as far as I can tell, every television program ever had episode titles, even if they didn't print them (the writers needed to put something on their resumes, after all).

I'm not too well-versed in classic television, but I can definitely say that The Twilight Zone (1959) had titles displayed, and I don't recall titles for earlier shows like Lassie. Teleplay shows (which were more like televised repertory theater) definitely had episode titles, but perhaps those shouldn't count since the characters were not recurring (and thus we'd also not include The Twilight Zone).

For a series with recurring characters displaying episode titles, the earliest I can think of are Star Trek and (of course) Doctor Who, but I have no doubt in my mind there are earlier examples.

A big part of the 2005 revival of Doctor Who is bringing back some of the 1960s aesthetic, and perhaps individually naming their two-parter episodes is part of that tradition. They may also want to keep a bit of mystery (people should be surprised if there's a cliffhanger) or maybe it's to keep viewing numbers up (if someone sees an episode is title Part One, they may not watch it because they'd be frustrated on having to wait a week to see the resolution). Classic Doctor Who was written in a serial format, and it seems modern audiences just don't want that. I love me some vintage Who, but I often think that if I pulled the video into my computer, I could edit the ~85 minutes of content of a typical story down to a steady-paced 60-70 minute program that would be more palatable.

Or, "Steven Moffat, the man who made a great TV show even better".

Steven Moffat definitely the man who killed doctor who. I'm not such a fan about rtd era, but there are also like 48 years of stories arc before Moffat.
Can't stand the fact that I understood all Te classics and all rtd era, Moffat was just sooooo brilliant during rtd era, but now. What about the story arc. This is supposed to be a family program, so children can watch. Wish you luck to explain to them what happen during the last episode of the serie 6

Lrrr23 You say you don't mean to be rude but then you proceed to be extremely rude and about young children too, you should be ashamed of yourself.

episodes of shows have had names for a long time... M*A*S*H in the 1980s had episode names ("Dear Dad", "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen", and "Abyssinia, Henry" among others...

series 7 contains 14 episodes with a break after episode 5 & recommencing with the Christmas Special, plans for series eight & 50th Anniversary episodes are not in the public domain.

Actually, my rudeness was aimed at you, re-read what I said please.

I will clarify directly however that I was not calling your children stupid, I was actually implying that they're most likely more intelligent than you give them credit for, and I will apologise for saying that in a potentially cryptic manner that I can see is easy to misunderstand.

At least Moffat didn't ruin the master with that stupid drums storyline. Seriously? Evil from childhood? "Chosen" by the drums? Never mentioned before the classic series? The motivation behind everything he's ever done that he never stops talking about but has never even alluded to before? GOOD JOB RUSTY! You want to talk about who ruined the show, start with the guy who clipped the talons of his greatest enemy [daleks aside, of course] and ruined his character arc for ever.

Speaking of which Moffat, please bring back and fix the master. At least you'll bring back the beard!

I quote "you either have STUPID kids or you think you have STUPID kids"
You made yourself perfectly clear, but i'm not going to stoop to your level and have a trollfest arguement.

Ho hum...its been done before in the Jon Pertwee Days.

If,as some people complain Steven Moffat is killing Doctor Who then why were 6000 plus people cheering him at San Diego comic con last week?Why did 3000 people travel to Cardiff to celebrate his work on the show at the BBC organised convention earlier in the year?Why was Doctor Who the most downloaded programme on itunes last year?How come BBC Worldwide has just announced it's still making more money for the BBC than anything else it produces?If people have problems with Mr Moffat's writing because they disagree with his decisions as they consider that his scripts are not in the tradition of the programme they want to watch,they should always respect that he is as much of a fan of the show as us and that's why he's writing it.He's still one of us, whatever you don't like about his writing.

Kids seem to be doing just fine with it, indeed the number of children watching the show has increased since he took over. I think kids have the imagination to cope with these ideas just fine (and if they don't I'd be worried). It's *exactly* the kind of complicated that an imaginative kid can understand. The pop culture references and political commentary of the RTD era, obvious though they may have been, were much more likely to go other their heads.

no

Thank you! Someone with an actual brain, Moffat haters are all fine and dandy with me (I don't agree with them but I'll accept their opinions and at least respect them) if they at least acknowledge Russell's faults (there are many, more than Moffat that's for sure) and give him the same brush of criticism, It's so infuriatingly hypocritical of these people to actually claim that RTD did good for the show and Moffat ruined it when RTD is more guilty of the criticisms they place on Moffat so willingly. This is a pretty poor analogy but it's almost as if RTD could get away with murder but if Moffat so much as steals something then he's the worst person in the world, it maddeningly stupid on their part.

My four year old has done just fine with it.

LKH is a bit quick n' easy, but almost every S5 and S6 ep had a very effective title that complemented the story just fine. The Eleventh Hour, The Girl Who Waited, Night Terrors...But yeah, titles like "The Wedding" and "The Doctor's Wife" just give away too much

Fair point - but Empty Child was of course written by The Moff...

Dinosaurs yes. Dinosaurs plus spaceship plus a famous historic figure with the hots for the Doctor according to the footage shown at Comic-Con plus Arthur Weasley, no.

No, it's 14 episodes this year and that IS a full season for British television (and its longer than Game of Thrones) - it's 14 not 13 because the Christmas special is now part of the regular season rather than a standalone. Seasons usually run fall to spring and all that's happened is Doctor Who is moving back to the way it was shown for much of its existence. Most UK and US shows split their seasons, so there's nothing different going on here. Doctor Who will never produce 26-episode seasons again because the BBC believes in quality not quantity. I assume you want Sherlock (3 episodes every other year) and Game of Thrones to be cancelled too? Short seasons are the new reality - the commercial networks in the US are simply slow to realize this.

Hmm ... BBC reports that Doctor Who is its biggest money maker. It has its highest ratings ever. It is the biggest show BBC America has ever broadcast in terms of ratings. People treat its cast like rock stars. Big name actors are clamoring to appear in it. Companies consider Doctor Who merchandise a license to print money. The show is likely to be banned from the Hugo Awards because IT KEEPS WINNING THEM. Yeah, the show is certainly dead. Right...

Kids are much smarter than you think. They certainly had no trouble following original-series Doctor Who when it took 4 months for story arcs to be resolved and many of the episodes consisted of people talking to each other. If you're suggesting today's kids are more stupid than they were in the 1960s, 70s and 80, feel free. Doesn't mean I have to agree.

My young children have no problem with Moffat and all of my students watch Who religiously as well. So I would concur with you.

If the Moff even reads this, I have been preparing all my life to play the Master and it's the main reason I became an actor (and grew a beard). Please Moff, find me!

I'm sorry, but my younger cousins and I were the ones explaining series 6 to the adult members of our family. Perhaps young people are less thick than you give them credit for? Understanding everything is not essential to enjoying Doctor Who. If you look at each episode as if it were still just self-contained and ignore the story-arc (as brilliant and exciting as it may be), then trust me, you will still have fun watching.

I don't follow the DW forums, so don't really know what new theories are
floating around out there,but it seems likely to me that newcomer Clara is the
Doctor's daughter (Regenerated from the Tennant episode of the same
name. Here's my reasoning... We know that Amy, Rory and River will be
gone forever after episode 5. They are the Doctor's surrogate family,
and needless to say, he will be devastated. Who else but another family
member could help fill the void for him? We know the Doctor's daughter
(from series 4) is still out there somewhere, so it makes sense for her
to find him at this critical time. What wouldn't make sense is for some
random stranger - no matter her circumstances, looks, or bubbly
personality - could just step in and become a companion while the Doctor is essentially grieving. And also this: Her introduction will be in the Christmas episode, where "family"
is usually one of the main themes. That's my theory anyway. In any
case, it'll be a heartbreaking ep. 5.

Dads Army episiodes (uk) had titles and that was in the 60's

because most of them are chumps, tbh. He as killed doctor who

After the way he has destroyed the Doctor and sullied the show, I rather he didnt bring back the Master, thanks. It would be an insult.

Hellllllo sweeite! we have to stop meeting like this

Her kids would only be proven to be stupid if they actually liked Noff era who

Moff is killing Doctor Who, you can see the mentality of his fanbois when they start insulting some poor woman's children and saying they are thick because they don't understand the half abandoned nonsensical plots your beloved Muff keeps drooling out, whilst murdering what was once considered a very good show!

You mean the man who buried it back into obscurity once all the fanboi-ism dies down!