Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has teased the leaving storyline for companions Amy and Rory, promising that “heartbreaking doesn’t mean unhappy”.

Series 7 began filming last month and will see Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill depart the show at some point mid-series.

Speaking to The University Observer, Moffat reassured fans: “I’m not very good at killing people. I don’t like it! I don’t think the Doctor’s companions should die, I think that spoils the fairytale a bit. But that doesn’t mean that I won’t [kill off companions] of course!”

Discussing “the big Rory and Amy heartbreaking finale”, he confirmed that “they’ll be gone forever”, adding: “It will be quite heartbreaking, definitely… I think you’ll be in trouble watching it… Heartbreaking doesn’t mean unhappy. Wait and see. I mean, it’s parting. It’s parting from someone and that’s always very hard.”

The writer also revealed that he is “pretty certain” Series 7 will begin airing this autumn.

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On Monday 12th March at 7pm, Sky Arts 2 (UK) will be airing In Love With Coward, in which Karen features.

Sheila Hancock, Karen Gillan, Patricia Hodge, Craig Roberts, Celia Imrie and Robert Sheehan perform their favourite passages from the works of English playwright Sir Noël Coward, who brought us such flamboyant work as Brief Encounter, Hay Fever, Private Lives, Blithe Spirit, The Vortex and In Which We Serve, the film drama for which he was awarded the 1943 Academy Honorary Award.

Karen will be performing the famous closing voiceover from Brief Encounter.

A couple of promotional images have been added to the gallery!

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Karen Gillan has admitted that it could be a struggle to adapt to life away from Doctor Who.

The Amy Pond actress, who will leave midway through the sci-fi drama’s next run along with co-star Arthur Darvill (Rory), told Collider that she is preparing for a “shock to the system”.

“We have so much fun. It’s so life-consuming, but in the most wonderful way,” she explained. “We film pretty much every day, for nine months of the year, so it’s basically your life.

“When you’re not filming it, you’re promoting it and talking about it, so it really does take over your life. It’s going to be quite shocking. It will be a strange shock to the system, to not be doing it anymore.”

Gillan added in the interview her belief that her Who departure will have a strong impact.

She has previously declared that her companion’s exit storyline will be “damn good”, while Time Lord actor Matt Smith has continually paid tribute to Gillan.

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KAREN GILLAN TO JOIN THE OFFICIAL DOCTOR WHO CONVENTION

BBC Worldwide confirmed today that Karen Gillan will be joining her co-stars Matt Smith and Arthur Darvill at the Official Doctor Who Convention taking place on the 24th and 25th March at Cardiff’s Millennium Centre.

Karen Gillan said: “I’m really looking forward to the Convention and meeting all of the wonderful Doctor Who fans!”

The Convention brings the makers of the Doctor Who together for a full day, in-depth event designed to reveal the inner workings of the series. On the main stage live pyrotechnic demonstrations will thrill attendees, while in detailed prosthetics masterclasses fans will see a monster made flesh in front of their eyes. Throughout these sessions the secrets of their craft will be revealed by masters of the trade including Danny Hargreaves, Doctor Who’s SFX Supervisor and Neill Gorton co-director of Millennium FX, Europe’s leading supplier of cutting edge prosthetics, animatronics and special make-up.

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What an awesome line-up now for the Convention with Karen completing the main cast stars along with Matt and Arthur, who are also attending both days! I hope everyone who is fortunate to go, really enjoys this experience!

Karen Gillan and Stephen Fry are among the stars who will feature in Sky Arts’ series of programmes celebrating the works of Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward.

The In Love With series, which will air in February and March, will feature stars of stage and screen performing readings of the authors and playwrights’ finest works.

Miriam Margolyes, Simon Callow, Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Douglas Booth will pay tribute to Dickens.

Doctor Who’s Gillan – who will tackle the voiceover from Brief Encounter – Patricia Hodge, Celia Imrie, Robert Sheehan and Sheila Hancock will appear in the Noel Coward show.

Fry, Paterson Joseph, Caroline Quentin and Being Human star Russell Tovey will head up the Oscar Wilde tribute.

Sky Arts channel director James Hunt said: “I couldn’t imagine a better cast to celebrate the colourful work of Dickens, Coward and Wilde. The performances are remarkable. This is a fitting tribute to the body of work they celebrate and to the craft of delivering monologue.”

In Love With… Dickens airs on February 21 at 8pm on Sky Arts. The Coward special follows on March 12, while the Wilde tribute airs on March 19.

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Thanks to the lovely Nicole, we’ve been able to add a scan from March’s UK edition of Instyle Magazine!  It features yet another new photoshoot image,  so hopefully more will appear soon!

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Actress Karen Gillan (Doctor Who) has signed to star in Romeo And Brittney, the follow-up movie from comedian David Baddiel (The Infidel). The current Doctor Who companion will play Brittney, a high school student from New Jersey who finds herself in the 13th-century, stuck in the plot of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet as the female lead.

Gillian Anderson (The X Files) will be playing both Gillan’s mother and a nurse in 13th-century Verona, while Robert Sheehan (Misfits) has been cast as a nerdy student and Romeo.

The $7 million movie, summarized as “Shakespeare In Love meets Clueless”, starts shooting May.

Arvind Ethan, producer:

“[David Baddiel and I] love literate teen comedies and we wanted to do our own version. After all, 10 Things I Hate About You was based on The Taming Of The Shrew just as Clueless was based on Jane Austen’s Emma and Easy A is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. And what is Twilight if it’s not Romeo & Juliet with vampires and werewolves?”

This is certainly exciting news, particularly if you love Karen Gillan and Robert Sheehan — who’s particularly charismatic as Nathan in Misfits. The premise doesn’t sound like a simple case of time-travel (as a few actors are playing dual roles), more like a reality-bending fantasy similar to Lost In Austen (the ITV miniseries where a modern woman was transported into the novel Pride & Prejudice). Agree?

My only reservation is the involvement of David Baddiel; a decent comedian back in the early-’90s and a talented writer, but his recent movie The Infidel was toothless and a tedious disappointment, with limp direction. Will he fare better with a more imaginative concept and a bigger budget?

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I’ve added screencaptures from We’ll Take Manhattan to the gallery – a mere 1257 MQ captures for your viewing pleasure, as well as a handful more On-Set images too.

I’ve also added a bunch more HQ’s from the National Television Awards, courtesy of My Poncho Boy and my lovely friend Annika, so many thanks to them!

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2012 > January – National Television Awards (NTA’s)

Karen Gillan cleaned up at the National TV Awards so it’s no surprise she’s going to keep her prize – by her bath.

The Inverness-born actress won the Best Female Drama Performance gong on Wednesday night for her role as Amy Pond in Doctor Who. Karen – who pipped Suranne Jones, Eve Myles and Jaye Jacobs to the award – said: “I’m going to put it in the bathroom.

“I could keep it on the side of my bath next to the shower gel.

“It’s fantastic I won on Burns Night. My parents are going to be so proud of me.

“I wasn’t expecting that and then to stand in front of that many people in the O2 Arena just screaming, I was trembling afterwards.”

Karen, 24, revealed she only just made it on stage.

She said: “I was late because of the crazy traffic in London. So I got there and then they called out my name. So there wasn’t a second to spare.”

Winning the award is a nice goodbye for Karen, who will leave Doctor Who this year.

She said: “I am so sad to be leaving Doctor Who. I have had the best years of my life on this job

“But it’s time to go on to other things and all stories come to their natural end.”

Karen will film in Scotland for the first time since becoming a star when she shoots a Glasgow-set rom com Not Another Happy Ending. She said: “I play an eccentric writer.”

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Karen Gillan won the award for the Best Drama Performance (Female) at tonight’s National Television Awards, for her role as Doctor Who’s assistant.

The Scottish star beat off competition from worthy competitors including Suranne Jones (Scott & Bailey), Eve Myles (Torchwood) and Jaye Jacobs (Waterloo Road).

Looking stunning in a short black dress with her deep red locks left free-flowing over her shoulders, an excited Karen ran up to the stage to receive her gong.

Presenting the gong was Hugh Bonneville from period costume drama Downton Abbey, who said that the fact that each award is selected by the public proves that the winner is truly “striking a chord with the audience”.

Karen – whose dulcet tones can be heard on the current series of Scottish Passport on STV – was clearly overwhelmed with her win.

“Hello” Oh my good God, thank you so much, this means so much to me, this is amazing but I am terrified right now!,” the Inverness-born actress said.

As well as starring in Doctor Who, Karen can also be seen tomorrow night in the BB4 show We’ll Take Manhattan, in which she plays the role of 60s supermodel Jean Shrimpton.

This year’s 17th NTAs were held at the 02 Arena in London, with over a thousand famous faces from the world of TV in attendance.

The annual awards ceremony sees the cream of the TV crop honoured for their performances over the last 12 months, with every winner in each of the 14 categories chosen by the public, who vote in a nationwide poll.

Huge congratulations to Karen on her win! So proud of her!! Pictures coming soon!