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Mar. 31st, 2005 12:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrphActor Christopher Eccleston has quit as Doctor Who after just one episode of the new series, the BBC has confirmed
Er. Right. Remind me, didn't he actively ask for the role? Oh well.
Feck.
Er. Right. Remind me, didn't he actively ask for the role? Oh well.
Feck.
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Date: 2005-03-31 04:26 pm (UTC)Actually, most of them have, and several Doctors have quit the series for exactly the same reason as Eccleston apparently has.
Being slightly more cynical, The BBC appear to have a love/hate relationship with Doctor Who, and they spent many years trying ther best to get ratings to fall to justify axing the series: Terrible scripts and horrendous costumes/sets which plagued Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, for example.
Perhaps, as the Doctor has only a few lives left (12 Regeneration = 13 Doctors), they may be thinking to quickly cycle through the last few incarnations and end series totally.