2011 (production)

January

 * 6 January - The Big Finish audio story Voyage to Venus was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 10-11 January - Big Finish's audio adaptation of the unproduced TV story The Children of Seth was recorded at the Moat Studios.
 * 11 January - Production began on the Fourth Series of Torchwood in LA

June

 * 7 June - The BBC announced that they had commissioned a 2011 Christmas special, as well as a seventh series, with Matt Smith remaining in the role of the Eleventh Doctor. Piers Wenger, however, would step down as executive producer and leave the BBC altogether.
 * 15 June - The BBC, through BBC One controller Danny Cohen, confirmed that the recently commissioned series 7 would air over two years - 2012 and 2013.
 * 30 June - The Crash of the Elysium began its run at the 2011 Manchester International Festival.

July

 * 24 July - Interviewed at the Comic-Con convention in San Diego, Karen Gillan confirmed she would return for an unstated number of episodes in series 7.

December

 * 11 December - The BBC announced the discovery of two missing Doctor Who episodes: episode 3 of Galaxy 4 and episode 2 of The Underwater Menace.