With the Doctor Who Christmas Special scrapped, and Showrunner Russell T. Davies and Bad Wolf out, it's time to call Christopher Eccleston.
With the Doctor Who Christmas Special scrapped, and Showrunner Russell T. Davies and Bad Wolf out, it's time to call Christopher Eccleston. Christmas Special, but there are some question marks surrounding whether there ever was one, or at what point there stopped being one, but there also won't be any newand production company Bad Wolf departing, the BBC has pretty much shelved the long-running series until a new team can be brought in to steer the franchise in a new direction.
Though we plan to get into our issues with how this was handled, we wanted to kick things off with a"glass-half-full" perspective. With Davies ending things withregenerating into the"Sixteenth Doctor" , it would seem that now would be as good a time as any to start courting. I mean, having Eccleston's Ninth Doctor return for a one-shot adventure with Piper that helps ignite the new era just feels… right.
Eccleston has made it painfully clear that he's enjoying his Big Finish audio drama adventures – but when it comes to making a return in front of the camera, the actor has made it clear several times in the past that he would never consider a live-action return as long as Davies, EPswere still involved with the show . Well, that's exactly what we're looking at.
And wouldn't that be a great way to make up for the wait – and the lies? During a Q&A portion of Eccleston and Piper's panel at the For The Love Of Sci-Fi 2023 convention from December 2023, Eccleston was once again asked if he would ever return to the long-running series proper.
Now, if you're a glass-half-full person, you can view his response as not being a"no." But realistically, the bar set by Eccleston didn't sound like one that the BBC has any interest in clearing.
"Sack Russell T Davies. Sack Jane Tranter. Sack Phil Collinson. Sack Julie Gardner.
And I'll come back. So can you arrange that?
" the actor responded. As we've seen from his work with Big Finish, Eccleston made it clear that he"loves" being associated with the character and the show's universe – but that's not the case when it comes to how he feels about production on 2005's first season.
"I love being associated, just don't like being associated with those people and the politics that went on in the first series. The first series was a mess, and it wasn't to do with me or Billie , it was to do with the people who were supposed to make it, and it was a mess," Eccleston explained – once again referencing the team that put together the show's revival.
And when it came to the revival itself, Eccleston shared that he also had an issue with the BBC not really backing the show's return until after it became a hit.
"You know, the first series, nobody wants to know. The BBC were like we're gonna keep a big distance from this. And then as soon as it was a success, they were all up close going, 'I was responsible for that,' but they were all like at a distance. Like this is a folly, Eccleston's folly, Piper's folly, Russell T. Davies' folly.
And then when it worked, suddenly, 'Oh yeah, I worked on that.
' They wouldn't come anywhere near us, and then they jump on the bandwagon," Eccleston shared. "Those kinds of politics I'm not very good at handling, I can't swallow that:"I thought about this, not with the four people who are running it now. " What hit our radar was what Eccleston shared regarding what would bring him"back like a shot" to the role. "Here's the thing: 'Doctor Who's' written for boys.
There has never been a female showrunner of 'Doctor Who.
' So my dream is this: there was a little girl who was, I don't know — six, seven, eight — in 2005 when my series went out, and she gets the job, and she asked me back? I'd go back like a shot.
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