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Karen Gillian and Arthur Darvill Officially Return to ‘Doctor Who’ With New Series

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Doctor Who has had many Doctors come through the TARDIS doors. But what is the Doctor without his companion? Or companions? When Matt Smith took over as the Eleventh Doctor, he met young Amelia Pond (Caitlin Blackwood) almost instantly. She was the first face that that face saw and when he came back to find Amy (Karen Gillan) grown and ready to explore space and time, the rest was Doctor Who history. Fans have missed the era of Amy, her love Rory (Arthur Darvill), and the Doctor. And now we’re getting Amy and Rory back in action!

It was announced via a new Instagram account created by Darvill and Gillan for their new Doctor Who adventure: A podcast! The two posted a video talking about their new podcast, titled The Karen and Arthur Podcast, explaining that it will include stories from the show and more. The caption said that they will be “releasing our first episode soon. Keep checking this instagram for updates you beautiful people.” But it also included a bit of the set up for the show as well, with Darvill saying “We’re going to be doing some chatting.” Gillan responded by saying “and drinking tea, telling stories” with Darvill ending it with a “And reminiscing and generally having an absolutely lovely time.”

News of the podcast isn’t exactly “new.” Darvill has been teasing it for a while, The idea of a “Pondcast” with the Ponds started when Darvill spoke with Radio Times last year. He told the outlet “We really get on and we catch up quite often, and we had such a good time [on Doctor Who]. It was so long ago and we’ve forgotten so much that happened, but it was such a formative thing, that we feel now that we’re able to look back and celebrate it.” He revealed at the time that he hadn’t seen about “half of it,” meaning their time on the show, and that back then, they’d already recorded some episodes. Now, we’re just waiting for the first episode to drop!

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DOCTOR WHO, l-r: Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvil, Matt Smith in ‘Dinosaurs on a Spaceship’ (Season 7, Episode 2, aired September 8, 2012), 2005-, ph: Adrian Rogers/©BBC/courtesy Everett Collection

Back when Smith took over as the Doctor, the show was in an interesting period. Gone were the days when it was a show mostly for only UK audiences. His era of Doctor Who brought in streaming in the US at the same time it did in the UK and allowed the show, that was already getting bigger under David Tennant‘s tenure, to grow. Part of what made the two seasons that Smith was with the Ponds so special was the dynamic between the trio. When “Angels Take Manhattan” separated the Doctor from his beloved Amelia until Smith’s final episode, “The Time of the Doctor.”

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Release Date

2005 – 2022-00-00

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BBC

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Graeme Harper, Euros Lyn, Douglas Mackinnon, Jamie Magnus Stone, Charles Palmer, Rachel Talalay, Joe Ahearne, James Strong, Jamie Childs, Saul Metzstein, Toby Haynes, Wayne Che Yip, Nick Hurran, Richard Clark, James Hawes, Daniel Nettheim, Colin Teague, Keith Boak, Azhur Saleem, Adam Smith, Andrew Gunn, Nida Manzoor, Lawrence Gough, Paul Murphy


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