Amazing, you're away from the Internet for a day and all hell breaks loose! Fortunately our mobile Internet peeps at the convention today caught the press release about the series split next year, and after a lengthy disussion (as fans do!) we pretty much came to the conclusion that this is a good thing!

Personally, I'm looking forward to it. The thought of having two series to look forward to next year is quite exciting - as the Moff says, two openers, two climaxes! Okay, so each series will be half-length to normal, which is perhaps not so good, but the gaps between will be shorter (a few months rather than several).

Plus of course there's series five of The Sarah Jane Adventures and series four of Torchwood to look forward to next year, to - we aren't being rationed for Who like in 2009.

So stop whinging, you in the back!

Now this has been speculated for a while now (especially with the later filming of the next series due to commence next week), but Digital Spy are now intimating that it is quite possible for Series Six to broadcast away from its "traditional" Easter(ish) spot. When asking Jay Hunt, head of BBC1, she said:

We're talking about what form Doctor Who will take. I think the interesting thing with having Steven running that show now is it will be very much a creative decision. He will decide what he thinks is right for the show.

Actually this doesn't tell us much at all!

Meanwhile Steven Moffat himself has commented about the heated licence fee discussions taking place at the moment (after BBC head Mark Thompson's lecture on it last night):

Are licence fee payers protesting hugely? No. They shouldn't, we give them lots of rubber green people in Doctor Who. Alien invasions are accomplished by at least three of them. Any cut in the licence fee and we'd have solo invasions. That'd be rubbish.

When's Day of the Daleks out on DVD, again?