Last night, in his Hugo acceptance speech, Neil Gaiman mentioned some exciting news: He's writing a second Who episode. In fact, he mentioned that only a fool or a madman would attempt to write another episode of Doctor Who after having pleased people so much the first time around — so he's on his third draft of a new episode now.


We caught up with Gaiman at the Hugo afterparty, and he told us more about this surprising turn of events. Apparently the new episode is slated for the second half of season seven, which means that it could air as soon as spring 2013. But Gaiman pointed out that "The Doctor's Wife," his Hugo-winning episode, was originally slated for season five and got bumped to season six forDefense Secretary James Mattis James Norman MattisBiden courts veterans amid fallout from Trump military controversies Trump says he wanted to take out Syria's Assad but Mattis opposed it Gary Cohn: 'I haven't made up my mind' on vote for president in November MORE told reporters on Sunday that President Trump has made a decision on the administration's Afghanistan strategy.

"The president has made a decision," Mattis told reporters traveling with him to Jordan, according to Reuters.

Mattis did not provide any details about the strategy, which Trump was to have discussed during a meeting at Camp David on Friday with his advisers. He made it clear that announcement would come from the president.

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