Children In Need preview for The Return Of Doctor Mysterio on the 18th of November ....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...al&ns_campaign

Apparently Moffat confirmed that Bill's surname is Potts at a recent event.

Does she have a brother called Ben?

Given that Frank Cottrell-Boyce is writing another episode, she may well do!

and an aunt called Pepper ?

And according to Twitter (and this is likely to be true), Bill will be gay.

Although the person who posted that, just deleted their account so make of that what you will.

Shame it's not Stickers. Or Hook.

It seems like the official writer list for Series 10 (according to GB) is ....

Steven Moffat
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Sarah Dollard
Mike Bartlett
Jamie Mathieson
Peter Harness
Mark Gatiss
Toby Whithouse
Rona Munro

Would this make it the first series to have two female writers?

Series 9 had Catherine Tregenna and Sarah Dollar, so it'll be the second

If Whithouse is in there it's a pretty good line up! All my favourites in there though I'd exchange Gatiss for Tregenna or McRae or Gaiman in a heartbeat!

Mark Gatiss is the Peter Mandelson of Moffat's New Who.

Pearl spotted filming in a woodland/forest area on Friday in what appears to be either a night time or very early morning shoot. No sign of Peter in the pictures though.

The pictures also show another actor who is dressed as what is listed in the article as a knight, but to me personally looks similar to the Rory the Roman costume. Not too sure.

Anyway, that's all the pictures really show, but worth a look.

Link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...d-Cardiff.html

Unfortunate practicalities of production; I'm sure the BBC would prefer a safe pair of hands, who knows what can and cannot be done on Doctor Who and will undoubtedly produce a filmable script without difficulty, then potentially have a newbie who may screw up.

Except of course that Gatiss has screwed up plenty of times himself. But to give him some credit, his episode with Diana Ring and her daughter was one of the better Moffat era episodes.

So speculating the final order of writers...

10x01 - Steven Moffat
10x02 - Frank Cottrell-Boyce
10x03 - Sarah Dollard
10x04 - Mike Bartlett
10x05 - Jamie Mathieson
10x06 - Toby Whithouse
10x07 - Peter Harness
10x08 - Mark Gatiss
10x09 - Rona Munro
10x10 - Steven Moffat
10x11 - Steven Moffat
10x12 - Steven Moffat

- Moffat doing 1, 10, 11 and 12 is confirmed.

- 2, 3 and 4 are also confirmed.

- Episodes 5 and 9 were filmed in the same block, with Matt Lucas praising Mathieson's script at the time, implying his was either episode 5 or 9. Rona Munro's name cropped up around the same time. Speculatively, Mathieson's episode fits the fifth slot well as his name came up first and (if you reach a bit) he did the fifth episode in the previous series.

- Rona Munro fits the ninth episode, as the decision not to announce names beyond the first four writers could imply they wanted to keep her involvement a secret, and she was then contributing the scripts to episodes 5 or 9 which were next to be filmed. 9 fits better, speculatively, because Moffat tends to put either a new writer or the more recognisable guest writers in a late slot (Richard Curtis, Neil Gaiman, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Sarah Dollard).

- 6, 7 and 8 are hardest to guess. I put Harness in down the middle for episode 7 - as he did the seventh episodes of the past two series. It also then splits up Gatiss and Whithouse - the two non-Moffat writers who are not exclusive to the Capaldi era, but it's complete guesswork beyond that.

- Catherine Tregenna is the only Series 9 writer not returning. A bit of a shame as whilst I felt the story of her episode was really weak, it had to pander to the Ashildr storyline really heavily and was tactlessly wedged in as a sort-of concluding half to a two-parter she never started, and frankly some of the dialogue was great. Her Torchwood episodes were generally very good with an outstanding one or two amongst them and I'd love to get her back writing for Who again.

- Series 10 has nine writers - at least one more than any series before it. It means we are going to get nine episodes in a row all by different writers (some Moffat co-credits notwithstanding), though I readily await for announcements that prove the above speculated order completely wrong It's a strong line-up though, and I do hope that Series 10 manages to avoid the trap that Series 7 and to a lesser extent Series 8 fell into which was feeling overly episodic, monster-of-the-week levels of inconsequential.

Is the new series being shown around Easter time?

Presumably. An April start date seems almost certain now, with Easter an ideal time to kick things off I suspect

Technically Season 22 had Paula Moore and Jane Baker....

One would struggle to tell the difference between the comments thread on that Mail article and this forum. I'm not sure if that's more a damning indictment of this place or vice versa!

It's like looking into one of those funfair mirrors - a warped and more pronounced version of the reality (the reality being here).

Thankfully Daily Mail was always several bounds away from anything resembling reality, and at least the casual racism going on over there isn't present here. As far as they're concerned, Pearl Mackie is pure tick-box casting.

I hadn't really noticed. My only interest in that article was the filming pictures.

Thought new filming pictures would be of interest on the spoilers and information thread, and yet, the only two responses to the post so far are more interested in the comments section at the bottom of the article.

They're just being mean because their favourite newspaper got dumped by Lego.

It's all made of Lego.

Well it was about time they LEGO of them!

My sincerest apologies.

It just means the Guardian's now got one LEGOver them.