BBC News: New Companion, Martha's Future
Monday, 2 July 2007 - Reported by Jarrod Cooper
The BBC has revealed that Martha Jones, as played by Freema Agyeman will join the cast of the Doctor Who spin off Torchwood for three episodes next year.
She will then return to Doctor Who, rejoining the show in the middle of Season Four.
To replace Martha a new companion will join the Doctor, staying for the entire thirteen week run of the series.
An announcement on casting is promised very soon.
Update 0800: news sites have started to pick up on the story: the Mirror, the Times,
GMTV, and the Sun (who still insist she was 'axed'!). The ITV1 programme GMTV also reported on who might be cast as the companion (in the Spoiler section below).
0915: The BBC Press Office have now formally reported on Freema's future in the two series, and that the role of new companion is currently vacant and to be announced shortly.
Richard Arnold on GMTV's Pick of the Day reported on the casting speculation that the Sun also touched upon, that actor Tom Ellis would play the next companion; Ellis had just appeared in Last of the Time Lords playing Thomas Milligan.
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