Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has revealed that he doesn’t know when the seventh season of the hit BBC show will be broadcast.

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The BBC recently announced that a seventh season consisting of 14 more episodes have been commisioned. Whilst we were told that the Doctor himself, Matt Smith, would be returning, no indication was given as to when it will air.

An article in the magazine Private Eye recently suggested that the next season is likely to be delayed and could mean that Doctor Who fans won’t see the new episodes until 2013. Speaking to The Guardian a BBC spokesman debunked this stating that, “a good chunk” of the new epsisodes will air in 2012.

Now, speaking to SFX, Moffat has joined in the discussion of scheduling. When quizzed about the release dates of the new season he quipped, “I don’t know. If I did know, I wouldn’t tell you. When I do know, what I know will change, so I won’t really know then either. Then it will change again, so I still won’t really know. And if, secretly, I’d really known all along, I’d still be telling you I don’t know, because everything I said I knew, could be wrong, so I’d never really have known in the first place. I don’t know and it’s a secret. I’m glad I’ve been able to clarify this for you.”

The current season of Doctor Who is currently on hiatus and will resume with six new episodes towards the later part of 2011.