Doctor Who Series 6 Will Be Broadcast In Two Halves

"What this show needs," said Steven Moffat at the Media Guardian Festival in Edinburgh "is a big event in the middle. I kept referring to a mid-season finale. So we are going to make it two series – seven episodes at Easter building to an earth-shattering climax, a cliffhanger we could never normally do because it would be too long before it came back. An enormous game-changing cliffhanger that will change everything." If that didn't summarise it well enough, basically Moffat and co have confirmed Series 6, instead of being simply broadcast as 13 episodes through Spring, will be split in two: seven episodes from Easter 2011 to sometime around late May, a couple of months wait with Torchwood: The New World in-between, then come September the other 6 episodes will lead us through to late October, at which point Sherlock, Merlin and The Sarah Jane Adventures will take over BBC's Drama. What the cliff-hanger seperating the two mini-seasons might be, we don't know yet (though the Sun has made the claim Amy will die, it's easy to take this with a giant pinch of salt), but Steven's claim of it being "game-changing" will likely have something to do with Professor River Song, since at the same event he was asked whether Song's identity would be revealed in Season 6 (which could either mean the Easter run, or the whole year's episodes), to which he replied "Definitely.". Exciting stuff, then, in what will essentially be a year where Doctor Who always has some presence on television!