It's all here

Well here and here ;)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/n.../15/32946.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5082668.stm


The question is how.

Die? live? or what?

I think that she would be leaving at a good time. She's been the companion for two years and by then we would have known all about her, so it's a good time to get someone new.

I take it that this means no more Jackie and Pete then?

Hi


I not say but the bloody Times had a page all about it so that suffed the season for me :(

You have thought you could read the Times without coming across it :grr:

Bloody press should shoot the lot of them :grr:

:thumbs:

:blink: I thought she was doing another series! No more jackie? :cry:

I wonder if Big Finish will approach her and Chris Eccleston to do audios now they are free of the programme?

Best of luck in your continuing career Billie.

Let's hope we get someone equally as good as she was/is (at the moment).

ditto

I've not read any spoilers and I don't intend to. But I think she'll die judging by the preview at the end of "Fear Her".

I will be sort of sad to see her leave. I've enjoyed the relationship she's built up with the Doctor but sometimes I become annoyed at the episodes lingering in her domestic life.

I think it will be refreshing for a new companion. Hopefully the arrival of one will allow for the writers to write Doctor Who properly and have alien planets involved. That's the key weakness to the modern series. But the relationship has to be different and should not be emphasised as much as it was with the Doctor and Rose. It should be a subtler part of the show, with the aliens and themes being more enlarged for the audience. And, of course, the imagination should be used fully and properly.

It will actually be very interesting the way they write the relationship between the Doctor and the new companion. The Doctor was very attached to her, far more than most of his previous companions, so showing him with the same level of closeness to someone new would really devalue that. I felt the point was made quite clear in School Reunion with regards how he is able to get very close to them and then disgard them - pretty much suggests that RTD does not want "his" Doctor to be a bit of a 'Woman of the Streets!' in that respect :)

What do people think of the appointment of Freema Agyeman as the new companion? I've not seen any of her previous work so I don't know what to expect myself. One aspect of the new companion (Martha Jones) that I will be interested in is her socio/economic background. As far as I can see it, she probably won't come from a Council Estate like Rose because it would be harder to create a new family history and character development.

The joy of Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Jones

Could be fun