Everyone at Panini is delighted that DWM's circulation figures have risen for the second half of 2012. Times remain tough for the magazine industry generally, with overall figures continuing to decline. In the current market it's a huge deal for any magazine's sales to hold steady, let alone increase. And, of course, it's always a major achievement for DWM to record higher sales than all the general sci-fi magazines – especially those that claim to be "Number One"!

I'd like to thank all of DWM's loyal readers, who have kept the mag going for over 33 years – such a massive achievement. We've got lots of exciting stuff planned for the rest of 2013, so I hope you'll all continue to enjoy it. And if you're a Doctor Who fan who hasn't picked up DWM before, why not give us a try?

We're absolutely delighted that we have been able to continue to reach so many of Doctor Who's young fans. We're still the best-selling title in the primary boys' market. Doctor Who Adventures was released across the world as an App to celebrate issue 300 and we’ve got many more exciting things planned for 2013. Geronimo!

It's a very important part of our programming strategy to bring our acquired content to air as close to its UK transmission as possible. Doctor Who is a hugely popular programme and I'm delighted we are able to bring the Doctor's latest adventures to Polish and South African audiences just one day after the UK premiere transmission.

November 2013 marks 50 years of Doctor Who on TV, and RT will bring you all the news as it unfolds – starting with some of the treats coming up. The most hugely anticipated event is surely the Anniversary special on BBC1. All details are firmly under wraps – and it doesn’t even start filming until spring, but fans worldwide are praying for a multi-Doctor escapade, perhaps with a few former best friends and best enemies thrown in. Could it actually happen? And would all the surviving actors be available – and willing – to appear in such a celebration?

Tom Baker famously declined to participate in The Five Doctors in 1983, and the first three actors to play the Doctor are now long dead. But if William Hartnell can be recast (in The Five Doctors and now in An Adventure in Space and Time) is it conceivable that other actors might convince in Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee’s shadows? This might all be pure fantasy, but what is known is that showrunner Steven Moffat has been toiling with the script. He tells Radio Times: "I’m mostly excited, a little bit nervous, and aware of trying not to let people down." Filming began on 3 February at BBC Television Centre, on what is likely to be the last drama made on the site before it’s redeveloped. Executive producer Caroline Skinner tells RT: "As the BBC moves out of TV Centre, we are moving the cast and crew for An Adventure in Space and Time in! It’s a fantastic opportunity to film this momentous story in the actual location – a little bit of television history."

It's about time. Technology has finally caught up with Doctor Who and your television is now bigger on the inside. A whole new dimension of adventure for the Doctor to explore.

Drama and the BBC are inseparable – it is written through the BBC like a stick of rock. No other broadcaster in the world has drama so firmly in its DNA . . . I want to make BBC drama a cultural institution – a touchstone for quality and modernity with all the excitement and glamour of a curtain going up . . . I want to make the BBC the hallmark of quality drama.