Newsarama have released a new interview with Neil Gaiman, in which the writer offers a few teasers about his forthcoming Doctor Who episode, The Doctor’s Wife.

“It stars Suranne Jones playing a character named Idris who may turn out to be an old acquaintance of the Doctor’s with a new face,” he explained. ”It co-stars Michael Sheen as a mysterious baddie called The House, and it begins on a junkyard planet out on the very edge of the universe.” He went on to describe the writing process of his episode.

He continued: “Going back to the first draft, there’s a lot that hasn’t changed and there are things that would change up to shooting. There are three scenes in there that were written by Steven Moffat pretty much the day of shooting when they went, ‘We can’t actually do this scene that Neil’s written’. And Steven would come in and read what I’d written and turn it into a scene in the TARDIS. The finished episode from the first cut was 56 minutes long and they had to take it down to about 43.”

He also revealed that the majority of scenes featuring Elizabeth Berrington and Adrian Schiller as ‘Auntie’ and ‘Uncle’ have had to be cut from the finished episode.

“They were so brilliant, they had all this great stuff and it’s not really there anymore,” he said. ”There’s a flavor of it and you can get to see it but their scenes wound up going.”

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