Get ready… the mid-series finale is on its way!
The BBC Press Office has revealed that next weekend’s mid-Series 6 finale, A Good Man Goes to War, will air at 6:40pm, lasting for 50 minutes.
The episode will end with the highly anticipated “game-changing” cliffhanger, so we’ll all no doubt be screaming at our television screens as the credits roll. If we can bring ourselves to switch over the channel, though, Doctor Who Confidential will be waiting over on BBC Three/BBC HD with a backstage pass to the momentous finale.
Read on for the synopsis for the Confidential, which we’ve hidden as it contains spoilers.
Behind the scenes of the mid-series finale, which is set on the asteroid Demons Run. The Doctor Who team reveals how it creates the newest baddies, turns a small platoon of clerics into an army and transforms a Cardiff alley into Jack the Ripper’s London. Featuring interviews with Karen Gillan, Alex Kingston and Arthur Darvill.
In addition, the cast list for the episode has also been revealed, and you can check it out below. There’s some interesting names on it, so share your thoughts in the comments…
The Doctor – Matt Smith
Amy Pond – Karen Gillan
Rory Williams – Arthur Darvill
River Song – Alex Kingston
Madam Kovarian – Frances Barber
Lorna Bucket – Christina Chong
Lucas – Joshua Hayes
Dominicus – Damian Kell
Fat One – Charlie Baker
Thin One – Dan Johnston
Colonel Manton – Danny Sapani
Madame Vastra – Neve McIntosh
Captain Harcourt – Richard Trinder
Eleanor – Annabel Cleare
Arthur – Henry Wood
Commander Strax – Dan Starkey
Dorium Maldovar – Simon Fisher-Becker
Voice of the Cybermen – Nicolas Briggs
Meanwhile, the BBC website has confirmed that the Silurians will also be back in the episode! If you’re an avid follower of filming developments, you’ll have known this for a while, but it’s exciting to have it made official. Who could resist a monster mash-up!?
Saturday 4th June
Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes to War - 6:40pm, BBC One/BBC One HD
Doctor Who Confidential – 7:30pm, BBC Three/BBC HD
I’ve just thought of something, when Amy was captured by the silence Rory said he remembered waiting the 2000 Years for her; how??? Resolving the gaps in the universe at the end of pandorica would have brought vanished Rory back, the 2000 year old Rory was an auton! Could Rory be a traitor?
I never thought of that… I don’t think rory would be a traitor.. don’t forget that rory isn’t real.. he is a plastic roman so he isn’t human.. so maybe that is how he remembered..
No I think ‘this’ Rory is real! He returned like amy’s mum and dad! So where’s the auton Rory? You can’t merge human and plastic, besides an auton couldn’t father child! I have a feeling the game changing hints at river, but actually a Rory revelation is in the offing!
I agree! I think that river is the big climax! I have been racking my brain with my dad and brother in law.. we have no idea who she is! I have a feeling that when we find out who she is we are gonna be like omg! that was in front of our faces the whole time! she can’t be doctors wife because she told amy it was more complicated than that.. what else can she be? maybe she is the little girl? I don’t know…
Amy and rory’s child conceived in the tardis, would explain her affinity for piloting the tardis, her ease with time travel, her ability to speak gallifreyian and time lord regenerative abilities. Besides pond=river…. A sort of conection
I think that River is a future personification of the TARDIS, hence the little blue book with the TARDIS door design on the front. I’ve also got a feeling that’s what she whispered in the Doctor’s ear in the Library
In Forest of the Dead, the Doctor said that River whispered his real name. I really hope we don’t find out what it is! That’s the main premise of ‘Doctor Who’!!
Still… I trust Steven Moffat.
The Moff on Twitter:
“To the worriers – anything on the BBC website is APPROVED, and not a real spoiler. You know NOTHING, trust me. No, actually, you can’t.”
I think Rory might still be an Auton.. but that is why I think he feels such a great connection with Jen/Doppleganger. And in that picture of Rory with the cybermen.. He wouldn’t be that confident if he was just human. And a possible answer to how Rory is still Auton is that there was a version of Rory on earth so the universe didn’t bring back the human version. Whereas Amy’s parents just weren’t on earth at all they had completely disappeared so were put back.
But something is up with Rory so if it isn’t this then I don’t know what it is.
‘a good man goes to war’ and river said: ‘i killed a good man, a very good man’… a link? it must be the doctor… or rory? open to any comments
@elena
Time will tell 
I think you’re right in saying it might be Rory.. cause he is a good man. I love Rory and would be sad to see him go