Doctor Who actress Alex Kingston, who plays the Time Lord’s wife in the hit BBC show, has spoken about a River Song spin-off TV series and who should star alongside her.

Promoting the upcoming Christmas Special, where we discover she is also married to a giant robot called King Hydroflax (played by The Inbetweeners’ Greg Davies), Kingston told Digital Spy that she would like a spin-off of her own. She said:

‘After the 9 O’clock watershed? With Captain Jack? Might be naughty!’

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Kingston and Barrowman together on the same screen is a thought that might get everyone hot under the collar.



TV’s John Barrowman has played the pansexual Captain Jack Harkness since 2005 and has appeared alongside both Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant, though not with Matt Smith and has yet to appear with Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor.

Alex also spoke to Digital Spy about who the next Doctor Who companion should be, and it’s not her! She commented:

‘I think the beauty of a character like River Song is that she’ll come in for an adventure and then she goes off again, and I think that’s what the fans love​.

‘If she were a constant companion, I’m not sure the fans would enjoy that so much.’

In The Husbands Of River Song, the Doctor Who Christmas Special, River does not recognise Peter Capaldi’s Doctor, and enrols him in a daring diamond heist across space and time.

Doctor Who, The Husbands Of River Song airs at 5.15pm, Friday, December 25, on BBC One.