In May NUMBER@1 , it was announced that the series would be resurrected beginning in NUMBER@2 , and that PERSON@1 was to play the character PERSON@2 , a traveling companion to The Doctor , -LRB- to be played by PERSON@3 -RRB- .

In May NUMBER@1 , it was announced that PERSON@1 was to play the character PERSON@2 , companion to The Doctor , played by PERSON@3 , in the long-running ORGANIZATION@1 television series Doctor Who , beginning in NUMBER@2 .
