Neil Gaiman's Doctor Who series 6 ep 4 title revealed (and it's a doozie)

SFX Magazine has revealed the title for Neil Gaiman's upcoming Doctor Who episode (the fourth one) but it may not be all that it appears to be . . .

Are you guys ready?

It's . . .

Revealed: Mark Gatiss has penned a new Doctor Who episode for upcoming series 6

It was revealed that Sherlock co-creator (and Doctor Who writer and actor) Mark Gatiss has penned a new episode for the upcoming sixth series of the British Sci-Fi show.

Richard Clark, who will be directing 2 episodes, has written on his twitter acccount that he was:

Neil Gaiman talks about his Doctor Who episode table read

Left to right - Neil Gaiman, Matt Smith, Steven Moffat, director Richard Clark

Author, writer, and all around Sci-Fi God Neil Gaiman, just put up a post on his blog about the first table read of his upcoming Doctor Who episode. In it, Gaiman reveals that his episode is still set to be the third to air in the spring (So YAY! we wont have to wait in the fall to see it!).

Read a scene cut from Neil Gaiman's Upcoming 'Doctor Who' Series 6 Script

Over on his blog, author Neil Gaiman has posted a scene cut from his upcoming Doctor Who series 6 script which Gaiman reveals will be table read on August 31. The writer mentions that the script has arrived to what will probably be it's final form - which is the tenth draft - and that it will most likely be the one that will be used for the table read.

Steven Moffat Talks Doctor Who Finale and Series 6

After last week's episode of Doctor Who, which left us with the mother of all cliffhangers at the end of The Pandorica Opens, it's normal we are curious to know what will happen next. After all, things looked mighty dire.

Moffat was recently interviewed for Tube Talk on Digital Spy and he had a few interesting things to say, especially about the finale, and if he'd planned it from the start:

Neil Gaiman Teases Us with his Doctor Who Script

Neil Gaiman recently teased his twitter fans with this picture of himself with Richard Curtis and Steven Moffat while holding his Doctor Who script.

Mr. Gaiman is deftly hiding with his fingers the title for his episode that will only air next year during series 6.

Way to tease us Neil!

[via Sci Fi Wire]

Neil Gaiman Tweets about Doctor Who

A few hours ago writer Neil Gaiman tweeted about his meeting with Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat.

Great meeting with Moffat & co. Spent 10 mins on how to rewrite the script for next series, 30 on fantasy casting. Ace new title sequence.

Gaiman is writing an episode of Doctor Who for next year's series 6

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Official: Neil Gaiman Confirms Writing an Episode of Doctor Who

The awesome news was confirmed by Neil Gaiman himself this weekend on the SFX Magazine website. He will be writing an episode of Doctor Who for Matt Smith's second season (seems we can be sure to assume that Doctor Eleven will NOT meet his demise by the end of Series 5).

I am not all that familiar with Neil Gaiman's work (he wrote the Sandman graphic novel though I never read it) but I know many are and this is certainly VERY exciting news for may fantasy and sci-fi lovers out there.

Go here to read the announcement.