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The programme returned on 3 April 2010 with a new 13-episode series starring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor,and Karen Gillan as his new companion, Amy Pond, following David Tennant's departure from the series in The End of Time.Russell T. Davies has been succeeded by Steven Moffat as executive producer and head writer,and Julie Gardner has been replaced as executive producer by Piers Wenger, who had previously replaced Gardner as Head of Drama for BBC Wales. Beth Willis also serves as an executive producer, and the series is produced by Tracie Simpson and Peter Bennett.
When Doctor Who was relaunched in 2005, the new series was marketed as series 1, although it had been on BBC television for 26 years from 1963 to 1989. When this series was confirmed by the BBC in September 2007 it was referred to as 'series five', following on from series 4 in 2008. In August 2009 Doctor Who Magazine announced that this series was to be produced and marketed as 'Series One'. The January 2010 edition featured an interview with Steven Moffat, the new lead writer and executive producer, in which he called Series One "exciting", Series Thirty-One "awe-inspiring" and Series Five "boring and a lie". In the same issue, he jokingly referred to the season as 'series Fnarg', on ongoing joke in subsequent issues.The March edition of Doctor Who Magazine, referring to this as Series Thirty-One, confirmed production codes in the range 1.1 to 1.13. BBC Programme listings.
Steven Moffat will write six episodes for the 2010 series, and Richard Curtis has stated that he is to write an episode featuring "Van Gogh stabbing a yellow monster".Mark Gatiss, Simon Nye, Gareth Roberts and Toby Whithouse will each write one episode. Chris Chibnall will write two.[21] Murray Gold stayed on as composer for the new series, and has again rearranged and composed the theme tune. In a radio interview, Steven Moffat confirmed that the Weeping Angels will return.
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