Rumors are circulation, via The News of the World that Hannah Murray will accompany Matt Smith’s The Doctor when new guard take over the Tardis in “Doctor Who” next year.

Murray, who has had very limited screen time in her young years outside of her role in the British television series “Skins,” is apparently the choice of Steven Moffat to join Smith when the series begins producing regular episodes again in 2010.

The rumor hasn’t been confirmed by BBC, but if it’s true, Murray will join a long list of companions, that in the modern era included Billie Piper, Freema Agyeman and Catherine Tate.

Tate’s Donna Noble first appeared in the second Christmas special of the new series, and returned in the fourth season in a critic’s favorite storyline that resulted in the character’s “death.”

Accompanying the companion reports is a story from Dark Horizons that BBC is planning just two specials in 2009, and not three as originally planned. That will include Easter’s “Planet of the Dead” starring David Tennant and Michelle Ryan, and this year’s Christmas special, which features Tennant and Lindsay Duncan, and marks the return of the Ood.

The third special has been pushed to early 2010, possibly as early as New Year’s Day, and will be the final episode for Tennant, who will leave the series before the fifth season starts in 2010. The episode will take place on Mars, and will feature Peter O’Brien as the villain, according to reports.

Much of this hasn’t been confirmed by BBC, so until that happens, it should be treated as any rumor would.

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