Merrick here...
Via his Twitter stream, Steven Moffat has just confirmed that BBC has ordered 14 more episodes of DOCTOR WHO (i.e. DOCTOR WHO Series/Season 7). His Tweet reads thusly:
14 eps + Matt DEFINITELY. I've got a plan and I'm NOT TELLING YOU WHAT IT IS. Now hush or River shoots you with her Spoiler Gun .#formaqueue
BBC's Sam Hodges (Head of Communications) mirrors the sentiment, also via Twitter (this info by way of DoctorWhoNews):
Presumably, this means a 13 episode Series/Season + a Christmas Special? Or a two part Series/Season each divided into 7 episodes? Or a three part...ah, never mind.
While news of new DOCTOR WHO is hardly unexpected, this does effectively dispel recent and conspicuously unsubstantiated rumors that WHO in 2012 might be relegated to a sequence of four specials...that Matt Smith might not be returning...etc.
Not surprising, but I never take anything like this for granted so it's awesome to hear such confirmation all the same.
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