I guess it,s too early to ask, who is the new companion whose going to join the DR in the Tardis?

We don't even know if Clara has left yet

For once I'd actually like the Moff to come out with his famous backtracks/revisions and bring back Osgood.

Have the Nethersphere have just enough energy left to restore her.

I think it would be quite fun to have a "sciency" companion for a change - she could point out all the "it doesn't work that way monents".

I said it once and I'll say it again, Missy should be the next companion. Imagine Missy and The Doctor trying to find Gallifrey, would be awesome

Said on another forum post. Maybe Osgood is not dead and it was really the Zygon version of Osgood.

I would like to have two companions for series 9 a male and a female. They are friends but care for each other deeper but both are to scared to tell the other how they really feel, which can develop through out their time in the show.

Of course they finally get it together at some point, which leads to them leaving as one of them could get badly hurt and the other says enough is enough, traveling with the doctor is playing with fire, and they just want to be happy and safe together.

Its surprising that in 51 years of DW a story like that hasn't happened. (Amy and Rory were already a couple) I think handled well it could be really good and sweet, now what did I do with that sick bucket.

That's good.

Not sure how much was ever implied on the actual show but according to spin off material both Ian/Barbara and Ben/Polly ended up as couples after their travels with the Doctor.

Actually both couples were mentioned in the SJA's so it is canon even if you ignore books/audios/comics.

I like Clara but if she does leave there is only one answer bring back Ingrid Oliver as Osgood. I used to listen to The Castle on my home from the office a year or so ago and she is very funny and has also proven she can act in programmes like Doctor Who and Plus One.

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I'd like the new companion to be someone from a different planet for a change.

I assumed it would be Rigsy from Flatline.

Huh?
Jenna hasn't left. There's been no announcement about her leaving in the near future, she's in the Christmas episode and, as far as anyone knows she's in next season too.

I think if she was going, the publicity around that would have started and her agent would be letting it be known she was available for other work. Jenna isn't likely to turn down over three months of potential work for the sake of a surprise exit at Christmas. I'd say it's almost certain she's on a contract that allows her to take this time off and she'll be part of the Series 9 filming in Jan.

I'd actually be happy if Death in Heaven was Clara's official departure. Not because I dislike her, but I thought that final scene was a powerful way to end her story, and it would be a brave and new way to see a companion leave. But oh well... Just so long as they don't resurrect Danny (it would really undermine that happened in the episode).

Ah so it has been done ive only seen a handful of first and second doctor stories (unfortunately) and I had it in my head that Ian and Barbara were a couple (pudding brain). Though as those examples were more implied rather than overtly showed and explored I think it would be good to have that story trope played out in the future.

I hope Jenna doesn't leave just yet, should she go I do miss the ood, think the Doctor needs an Ood companion. It would give a different edge to the show too, Peter would have a bigger part to play in each episode.

Hmm, this ain't gonna happen is it, Ten and Donna freed the ood so they could go back to being happy singing folk ......

I'm sure it can't happen with this Doctor; they wouldn't put two middle-age men for a show aimed at many young people.
But i really would like Canton Delaware the third (from the 70s) as a companion.
If not him, then a companion from the past like him.

Some interesting choices from Metro for new companions
http://metro.co.uk/2014/11/18/doctor...-2015-4953043/

Personally, I think Clara's story is done and should be wrapped up neatly in the Christmas special.

I think it would weigh down season 9 if it starts with more of Clara's story with the new companion delayed until mid-way through the season.

I think season 9 needs to hit the ground running with a new companion from episode one - I honestly think the BBC will have missed a trick if they don't.

I wouldn't say no Aimee-Ffion Edwards playing the role of companion. I think the role needs to get back to the 'everyday' person role rather than a companion with a mystery around them. Aimee-Ffion Edwards has that girl next door quality to her. I thought she played a really sweet role in Detectorists.

I'd like to see two female companions. We haven't had two females in the TARDIS since Nyssa and Tegan. So Clara and another girl, that way if Jenna does go we'd still have a new companion, although preferably i'd like to see two females throughout Series 9.

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Too many female companions lately! Let's get a guy on board as well as a female! There has been too much emphasis on women lately! Amy & Rory were a start - but they were not up to scratch were they? (IMO)
Just have a nice-looking guy to start with.......they could pick up another girl from the future/past and carry on from there....

Interesting... you refer to men using the familial, informal word 'guy', but women are referred to very coldly and formally as 'females' (twice). Then, you refer to whatever female companion may be 'picked up' as a 'girl', although one would presume you don't want her to be adolescent. Your words seem very telling to me.

I'm interested in why you feel a 'strong emphasis on women' is bad. I think most would surely like to see a strong emphasis on the characters - whoever they may be? It's an odd thing to say, as I doubt you would say something like 'there's been too much emphasis on black people lately'.

I would point out to you that of the two leads last season it was a 50 / 50 split of male and female, and the tertiary main character was also male, meaning the ongoing cast leaned more heavily towards men than women by 67%.

One of the worst things, to me, about the classic series of Doctor Who is how few female characters there were, and even fewer good ones. If not for the companions, a number of those episodes may well have passed by without a single female face onscreen (I believe the companionless 'Deadly Assassin' more or less did) and perhaps a majority of them wouldn't have had a significant female character. Very few of them would have had more than one tokenistic female.

Rectifying that in the revived series has been one of their best moves, and has helped make Doctor Who massively more popular with the female audience. For decades fantasy and Science-Fiction were seen as male genres that women inherently had no interest in. In fact, it was actually the case that women simply were not represented adequately within them, either in number or quality of characters or authentic female viewpoints within the narratives. As that has gradually changed over the last 20 years there has been a massive shift in the audience for the genres with women embracing it, as both consumers and producers.

The very worst thing Doctor Who could do would be to eliminate the female lead. Of course, I think you do realize this really; your subtext is obvious, but I'm sorry, Doctor Who is never going to have the strong gay vibe you want it to have. It will continue to be as representative as possible, and as long as they have a primary male lead the co-star will always be female.

What about Rose Leslie

"You know nothing, Doctor"

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...s-peter-749557