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Please note this is a rumour from The Sun!
DR WHO’S sidekick Amy Pond may be KILLED OFF in the next series – in a shock mid-season twist.
The much-anticipated sixth series will be split in two next year, boss Steven Moffat said yesterday.And he teased fans by saying the series will take a break at Easter with a dramatic storyline – leaving viewers “needing the summer to recover”.
And we can reveal that killing off Amy is the devastating plot twist favoured by bosses.
A source told TV Biz that Karen Gillan, who plays Amy, WILL leave before the end of the next season.
If scriptwriters stick to plans to kill her off, she will be the first of the Timelord’s companions to die since Adric (Matthew Waterhouse) in 1982.Steven Moffat yesterday promised an “enormous earth-shattering cliffhanger” halfway through the series.
Seven episodes will be shown up to Easter, followed by six in autumn.
He said: “In order to let you have time to recover we will let you go off and have your summer holidays and then come back in autumn.”
The move will bolster BBC1′s autumn schedule as rival The X Factor will move to later in the year in 2011 – with only auditions in December.
Steven, who will film three Sherlock episodes in the summer break, added: “You will never be further than a few months from an episode.”
He said the Doctor (Matt Smith) and his sidekick will face a “game-changing” moment.
He added: “It’s a huge event. An episode of Dr Who that’s not scary is failing the children of this nation.”
Steven – speaking at a Dr Who masterclass in the Edinburgh television festival – was asked whether the cliffhanger is “the biggest of Dr Who in the modern era”.
He replied: “It’s a good one. I know word-for-word what it is.”
Steven also told how he had almost not hired stunning Scot Karen for the role after seeing her in a show reel that made her look “short and dumpy”.
He added: “Then I saw her in the corridor and she was so tall and beautiful. When she is in heels I feel like the sidecar to a motorbike.”
Karen yesterday was coy about the climax – and how long she would remain in the show. She said at the festival: “I have no idea. I guess you just have to take it series by series.
“Who knows? But I’m having a lot of fun right now.”
