​Pearl Mackie is the new companion to Peter Capaldi’s Doctor Who, with her run starting when the show returns for its tenth season on BBC and BBC America.

The West End actress will first appear as Bill in the show’s annual Christmas special.

“I’m incredibly excited to be joining the Doctor Who family,” Mackie said in a statement. “It’s such an extraordinary British institution, I couldn’t be prouder to call the TARDIS my home!”

Mackie is in good company. She replaces Jenna Coleman, who is headed to ITV to play Queen Victoria in a new drama and she’s preceded by the likes of Billie Piper, who now appears on Showtime’s Penny Dreadful, and Karen Gillan, who starred as Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy.

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