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Doctor Who: River Song and the Twelfth Doctor?

Here’s an interesting bit of news for you Doctor Who fans out there. Actress Alex Kingston, who plays the mysterious River Song on the hit BBC sci-fi series, appeared on BBC Breakfast earlier this week and shared a few interesting bits about her character’s relationship with the Doctor, hinting that her relationship with the time traveller might not be restricted to just his tenth and eleventh incarnations.

“[River] met a Doctor in the future - which is my past - and that Doctor is a person [she] had a very strong relationship with. But it may not necessarily be this Doctor.”

Granted, Kingston was speaking with uncertainty (“I don’t know,” she admitted) due to the high secrecy that showrunner Steven Moffat shrouds the series in. But if Kingston has reason to believe that her time on the show might extend past Matt Smith’s tenure on the series, maybe we should consider that as well.

It was recently revealed on the show that the character of River Song is the daughter of the Doctor’s current companions, Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill).

Doctor Who’s sixth series will return in September with “Let’s Kill Hitler,” the conclusion to the two-part story begun with the show’s midseason finale, “A Good Man Goes to War.”

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