Straight from the pages of Next Weeks DWM :)

Black Spot:
Prequel to The Smugglers - real pirates, therefore. Assuming we knew Hugh Bonneville plays Capt Henry Avery (audacious historical pirate). Mermaid mentioned in the trailer - story inspired by a village in Cornwall, Zennor, which has its own mermaid legend - writer Steve Thompson lives there.
Script Extract:
Rory: Doctor? What's happening to me?
Avery: She can smell the blood on your skin. She's marked you for death.
Rory: She?
Avery: A demon. Out there. In the ocean.
Doctor: Okay. Groovy. So not just pirates today; we've managed to bagsy a ship where there's a semon popping in...

Synopsis: A pirate galleon sails the high seas with a skeleton crew. Captain Avery has witnessed a thousand deaths; he ahs no more tears to cry. But his crew keeps disappearing. One drop of blood is all it takes, before the black spot appears...and then a siren comes calling.

The Doctor's wife
Ridiculously spoiler-free review: things like "The Big Thing happens on page 23 of a 59-page script." Teasing stuff like "Neil Gaiman's just around the corner, behind that big hanging sheet obscuring...Well I never. Another one? Surely not!"

The events of page 23 have Suranne Jones as Idris sitting motionless, caged in what looks like a junk-filled Aladdin's Cave, while Matt Smith gives a masterclass in 'I beg your pardon' acting. An electrifying scene - and given the events of page 23, it really couldn't be anything else.

This is "the one shot we get to do this story". If it goes wrong, people will think of it as the "Spock's Brain" of Doctor Who...
Apparently Suranne does very good shaky-shaky acting.
Idris, at the beginning, is preparing for death - but she doesn't die. So by the time the Doctor meets her she's gone mad...hence the biting (apparently, she bites him!). Idris doesn't really know what she's talking about. This story will change how we see a key bit of series mythology. Michael Sheen confirmed in this episode. Also, given the dialogue to follow, looks like the War Games' Time Lord Cube thing is a definite.

Dialogue:
Doctor: Time Lord emergency messaging system. Like a flare pistol, in an emergency, we'd wrap up our thoughts in psychic containers and send them through time and space. OK, not like a flare pistol. Anyway, there's a living Time Lord out there! And it's one of the good ones!
Rory: You said there weren't any Time Lords left?
Doctor: There aren't. No Time Lords left anywhere in the universe. But the universe isn't where we're going.

Synopsis: The TARDIS, drawn off course by the most unlikely distres signal, materialises outside of time and space itself. In this bubble universe, the Doctor meets Idris and her aunt and uncle, who live together in a scrapyard of impossible things. Idris, it seems, is mad. And when the Doctor finds out why she is the way she is, things start to get a bit complicated...And unmentionable.

Rebel Flesh/Almost People
cool pics here of the Almost People - kind of like the Changelings from Star Trek: DS9 - only with better noses.

The Flesh is programmable matter, used to work in the acid mines - you know this, I know, just putting down what I can ;o). Episode influenced by The Thing and Avatar - these episodes are pivotal in this year's Amy and Rory; whispered words here will have mind-blowing significance once the episode's over. Huge surprises in both episodes - end of ep6 is a massive cliff-hanger to spin us into the maelstrom of ep.7

Dialogue:
Doctor: You poured in your personalities, emotions, traits, memories, secrets - everything. You gave them your lives. Human lives are amazing. Are you surprised they ran off with them?

Synopsis: Meet The Flesh. A shimmering pool of gelatinous white matter, threaded with veins like an eyeball. Step into the alcove, strap yourself into the harness, and the Flesh can take your form. You can control the cloned drone like a puppet, performing dangerous tasks without putting yourself in danger. That's what's happeningin the Monastery where the Tardis crash-lands. And all things considered, it's going pretty well. As long as the Flesh doesn't start having ideas of its own...

The Ood are in Gaiman's episode, too!

Huge thanx to Tony Fyler for typing this from DWM, on sale this week!