Filling The Doctor Who Void- News Roundup (16th-22nd January)

Another fairly quiet week for Who, albeit with a few interesting developments in the world outside of the programme for fans...

• A new hardback Eleventh Doctor novel, Dark Horizons, has been announced. Following in the style of Michael Moorcock's Terraphiles and Dan Abnett's recent Silent Stars, the story will be a standalone, bumper-length adventure taking place in between The Wedding of River Song and The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe (unless the Doctor remains 'alone' for most of Series 7, with the Ponds returning in some Earth-based stories to meet their "heartbreaking end"). It features "a people under attack from a power they cannot understand", "marauding Vikings with very bad timing" and "a ruthless alien force". 'Chicklit' author JT Colgan's Dark Horizons hits book retailers and eBook electronic markets in July.
• The list of 2011's Top Viewed iPlayer episodes has been released by the BBC, and as per usual our favourite sci-fi has done well for itself- The Impossible Astronaut ranked as the 3rd most watched show of the year, Day of the Moon 8th, Let's Kill Hitler 13th, A Good Man Goes To War 16th, The Doctor's Wife 21st and The Curse of the Black Spot 25th. Let's see how the new series' first half fares with its Autumn timeslot later this year...
• We've had a few more comments on the 2012/2013 run this week: Steven Moffat has promised "at least 14 episodes" including this year's Christmas Special, which I'm guessing means we'll see the series start in late October, air until Christmas, then return from late April until June, hence a full season, and then we'll get anniversary specials and the 2013 Christmas Special from October onwards; Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy has suggested that he'd love all of the Doctor actors to return as different characters in the 50th Anniversary special, which I reckon is a pretty original idea!
• Finally, we've got the first screenshots from Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock, a new video game starring Matt Smith as the Doctor and Alex Kingston as River Song, below. The game will retail on download networks for PS3, PSVita and PC this Summer.