On Saturday the third series of the revived (maybe “regenerated” is better) Doctor Who finished on BBC One. The last episode (capsule review – all a bit too silly for my tastes) ended with the Doctor alone in the TARDIS again as Martha Jones had decided to leave him and stay one Earth. Which all came as a bit of a surprise to viewers as there had been no news of her leaving the show (well, other than a ridiculous Sun story claiming that she had been sacked).
There was no information about what was going on from the BBC until Monday. At which point they started issuing a new press release every day to give more details about what was happening. Here’s a summary of what we know so far.
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Martha Jones will be back.
She is in three episodes of the forthcoming second series of Torchwood and will return for the second half of the next series of Doctor Who. -
Kylie Minogue will be playing a major role in the Christmas special.
I suppose this will be a kind of one-shot companion like Catherine Tate played in the last Christmas special. Kylie’s involvement has been hinted at on a few news sites previously. -
Catherine Tate will be the full-time companion in the next series.
This came as a bit of a surprise. And, to be honest, not a particularly welcome one. I didn’t really enjoy Tate’s performance in the last Christmas special. But we’ll just have to wait and see how she does next year.
There are also rumours flying round that this will be Russell T Davies and David Tennant’s last year working on the programme. But as far as I can see, that’s all speculation. There’s been no confirmation from the BBC.