{"id":21769,"date":"2012-03-21T14:14:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T14:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=21769"},"modified":"2012-03-21T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T14:28:00","slug":"doctor-who-series-7-new-companion-is-jenna-louise-coleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/doctor-who-series-7-new-companion-is-jenna-louise-coleman\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who Series 7 new companion is Jenna-Louise Coleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21770\" style=\"width: 608px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/doctor-who-series-7-new-companion-is-jenna-louise-coleman\/attachment\/jenna-louise-coleman-doctor-who\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21770\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21770\" title=\"Jenna-Louise Coleman Doctor Who\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Jenna-Louise-Coleman-Doctor-Who.jpg\" alt=\"Jenna-Louise Coleman Doctor Who\" width=\"608\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Jenna-Louise-Coleman-Doctor-Who.jpg 608w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Jenna-Louise-Coleman-Doctor-Who-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenna-Louise Coleman in ITV1&#39;s forthcoming Titanic miniseries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The tabloids broke the silence earlier this morning, but official sources have now confirmed that the new companion for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/doctor-who-series-7-first-picture\/\"><em>Doctor Who<\/em> Series 7<\/a> will be former <em>Emmerdale<\/em> star Jenna-Louise Coleman.<\/p>\n<p>The actress, who also appeared in ITV&#8217;s <em>Titanic<\/em>, <em>Waterloo Road<\/em> and briefly in <em>Captain America: The First Avenger<\/em>, will be replacing the departing Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) and Arthur Darvil (Rory Williams\/Pond), who leave in episode 5 of Series 7 &#8211; six episodes will be broadcast in 2012, and a further eight in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It always feels like a miracle when you find the right person,&#8221; said executive producer Steven Moffat in a BBC press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who she\u2019s playing, how the Doctor meets her, and even where he finds her, are all part of one of the biggest mysteries the Time Lord ever encounters,&#8221; continued Moffat. &#8220;Even by the Doctor\u2019s standards, this isn\u2019t your usual boy meets girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emmerdale&#8217;s Jenna-Louise Coleman has been confirmed as the new companion for Series 7 of Doctor Who, showrunner Steven Moffat says &#8220;This isn\u2019t your usual boy meets girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":21770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[143,612],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Jenna-Louise-Coleman-Doctor-Who.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}