Tom Constantino - Co-Producer on season 3 of The Orville - recently offered us a curious nugget via Twitter:

Hey folks, been editing today…. BUT despite some misinformation to the contrary, #TheOrville #S4 is still TBD. It will depend on audience appetite and the #S3 response, so anything can happen!

Misinformation?

Originally due to begin commercial flights this month, Virgin Galactic announced these would be delayed until Q4 2022.

Stock prices fell. Predictably.

Doctor Who have announced that Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill have finished filming.

The announcement isn't clear if everyone else has or not but either way, end of filming for any incarnation of the Doctor is a momentous occasion.

Jodie did a great job as our first female Doctor Who.

Mandip is also great but no announcement has been made about her leaving so we'll probably see her again in season 14. But that hasn't been confirmed.

It's less upbeat than one might have expected from our first Starfleet captain in space and not as inspirational as the Star Trek title sequence, but Shatner was clearly affected by the experience. He had more to say:

Suddenly you're through the blue and you're into black and you're into, you know, it's raaaa, it's mysterious and the galaxies and things, but what you see is black. And what you see down there is light. And that's the difference.

That is William Shatner's advice, given this morning in a short video released via twitter.

And it looks like there's a great deal of curiosity about this fictional character, Captain Kirk, going into space, so let's go along with it and enjoy the ride.

It's not a very exciting video really but if you've been following this story you might want to take a look.

Today NASA announced initiation of the mission to return samples collected by the Perseverence rover to Earth.

When they say initation they mean they've packed some samples, the first of which was collected on September 1.

Radio Times reports that at a press event on October 11, Head of BBC Drama Piers Wenger had some things to say about selecting Russell T Davies to return as showrunner in 2023.

The European Southern Observatory released images of 42 of the largest asteroids in our solar system, on the 42nd anniversary of the publication of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Its numerical press release ID is 2114.

Also published on the same day was an associated article in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

In a tweet, Anson Mount (Captain Pike) has announced an official production wrap on season one of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

After expressing gratitude towards cast, crew and fans, he expressed hope that audiences will be able to see it sometime in 2022.