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March 30th, 2015 35 comments

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Rufus Hound / Maisie Williams in Series 9 + 2 New Titles

Episode titles revealed The Girl Who Died by Jamie Mathieson & Steven Moffat and The Woman Who Lived, by Catherine Tregenna.

Having landed back in the UK fresh from touring the US, today Maisie Williams sets foot on the Doctor Who TARDIS to take up a guest role in the hit BBC One show that returns to our screens this Autumn.

Maisie has already found global fame and is renowned for her role as Arya Stark in the international fantasy drama series Game of Thrones. She also starred in the one-off docu-drama Cyberbully and was cast as one of the leads of Carol Morley’s drama The Falling. As well as beinga three-time Screen Actors Guild Awards nominee, in February of this year she was awarded with a Shooting Star Award at the Berlin Film Festival.

On her first day on set Maisie Williams said, “I’m so excited to be working on Doctor Who as it’s such a big and important part of British Culture. I can’t wait to meet the cast and crew and start filming, especially as we’ll be shooting not too far from my home town.”

Steven Moffat, lead writer and Executive Producer, added, “We’re thrilled to have Maisie Williams joining us on Doctor Who. It’s not possible to say too much about who or what she’s playing, but she is going to challenge the Doctor in very unexpected ways. This time he might just be out of his depth, and we know Maisie is going to give him exactly the right sort of hell.”

Bursting with drama, wit and heart, the show continues filming with two period adventures – ‘The Girl Who Died’ written by Jamie Mathieson and Steven Moffat, and ‘The Woman Who Lived’ by Catherine Tregenna. Starring Peter Capaldi (The Doctor) and Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald), the duo continue to time travel through epic adventures Directed by Ed Bazalgette (BBC One’s 18th Century drama Poldark).

Comedian and actor Rufus Hound who recently appeared in the series Cucumber also joins the guest cast alongside BBC Three’s Siblings and CBBC’s Horrible Histories star Tom Stourton, Ariyon Bakare, Simon Lipkin, Ian Conningham, Murray McArthur, Barnaby Kay, John Voce, and Struan Rodger.

Doctor Who has had a decade of success since its re-launch and is one of BBC One’s most highly regarded dramas. The much-loved brand is already a phenomenon delivering on a global scale, with the last series’ (series 8) consolidated average at 7.4 million.


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35 comments

  • the ergon

    May 4th, 2015 - 1:33pm

    If she hadn,t been tied to thrones, I think maisie Williams would make a perfect successor to clara as companion.

  • Cousins2019

    April 16th, 2015 - 11:39am

    Can’t wait for these episode’s might be the best of series 9! Hopefully she will be Brilliant not like the child actors in The forest of the night

  • The Figure Adventurer

    April 13th, 2015 - 2:34pm

    But they are connected…

  • Doyouhearthem?

    April 11th, 2015 - 11:10pm

    There’s only one rule in Doctor Who: you don’t play the same game twice.

  • the astronaut of death

    April 11th, 2015 - 1:50pm

    Yep…all true

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