Series 9: "The Girl Who Died", and "The Woman Who Lived", Maisie Williams Guest Stars 

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 being a 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.

The BBC Cymru Wales-produced drama will return to BBC One this autumn with further casting to be announced in due course.

Torchwood\'s Catherine Tregenna Penning Series 9 Story

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So the two episode titles announced are both for single episodes and one of them is written by Mathieson and Moffat!

Irrelevant, but have Toby Whithouse\'s stories\' names been revealed? I don\'t remember...

It doesn\'t confirm nor deny if it is a two parter, we can only speculate :) 

Maybe not a real double episode but two episodes distinct but united by a logical line or by the presence of some characters?

Interesting however that this seems to be a two-parter despite the different writers. Not too keen on either of the titles. 

Although seeing as it\'s a co-write Moffat may well have scribbled over the sketchiest of Mathieson\'s dialogue.

I love masie williams she is an amazing actor and she would also be a brilliant companion 

And it\'s awesome to have Maisie Williams on board as well. :D And this certainly

like another double-parter, though I\'d imagine more to the extent that A Good Man Goes to War / Let\'s Kill Hitler can be considered a double-parter: probably independent plots, but with significant overlap in other areas. But, in any case, it sounds awesome and has some excellent titles :D :D

This is literally the best lineup since forever.

Okay, so we get Miss Stark, but has anyone noticed the sneaky mention of the casting of the voice of the Face of Boe? Also, Murray McArthur, according to Wikipedia, usually plays Scottish roles. Interesting...

As a side note, I had just calmed down about Doctor Who. I was ready to get on with my exams, and then... this. *Sigh* I\'ll be excited for weeks now...

With these four titles I\'m wondering if Series 9 will follow a Classic era naming structure where every episode refers to a character in a non specific pronoun and a adjective/noun. 

Oh and MATHIESON! AND TREGENNA! Mathieson needs no introduction and I think Tregenna was one of the best writers on Torchwood she wrote absolute brilliant episodes.

Arya\'s certainly my favourite character in Game of Thrones and you cannot deny Mathieson\'s writing talent! Most exciting series 9 news yet! :D

It be very interesting if both of these stories were two parters considering they\'re written by different writers. I mean, the titles certainly hint at it...

I\'m so excited about this :D *mind explodes again* 

Jamie Mathieson writing an episode!!!! Hell yeah!!!

This could be the best day ever! Wait I found a penny, it is the best day ever!!!  : D

It\'s looking like a series of two-parters...please wait while I EXPLODE WITH JOY!!!!!!!!!!

@WillAtkinson1  Apparently they\'re not all two-parters. But there are more of them than usual.

Oh yeah !! I love Maisie Williams in Game of Thrones!

The episodes of historical setting are not my favorite but written by Jamie Mathieson, Steven Moffat and Catherine Tregenna? Hell, seems perfection.

So if I am not wrong, there will be three double episodes one after another.

Hmm... The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived... Sounds like a two-parter to me, despite the different writers.

Exactly what I was thinking... It\'d be very interesting if it is a two parter 

Given the similar titles I wonder how these two eps are related? Their not the same story due to the different writers. Maybe The Doctor and Clara return to the same setting later in the series?

Maisie Williams in Doctor Who? In an episode written by BOTH Jamie Mathieson AND Steven Moffat?! I Excuse me whilst I explode in excitement! 

This is the best S9 news all year, I love Maisie Williams she would make a great companion.

I\'m curious to see if it\'ll be a two-parter with three writers or two stories with a connection, like, for example, Kill the Moon and Mummy on the Orient Express? 

omg omg omg this is so exciting. can\'t wait :D I\'m a fan of Maisie Williams in Game of Thrones :D So happy that Jamie Mathieson is back :D 

Can\'t contain this much excitement ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *explodes from excitement* 

This sounds amazing! But I\'m slightly confused about the episodes that have been confermed. So they are not two parters?

Hell yes, Jamie Mathieson is back :D :D ! And writing with Steven Moffat!!? That\'s a combination made in heaven!

Great to have her on board! And, an episode written by Steven Moffat and Jamie Mathieson... Wow, could this day get any better? ;D