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Dr. Who Series Star Quits
TinheadNed writes "The day after the BBC confirmed there will be a second Doctor Who series next year, as well as a Christmas special, new Dr Who actor Christopher Eccleston has revealed he will not continue in the role, for fears of being typecast. Billie Piper, who plays his assistant Rose, will probably continue in her role."
The BBC has interesting list of possible replacements for the next series here.
If they're going for consistency, David Thewlis is probably as close as they'll get to Christopher Eccleston, though he's perhaps not quite in the same league.
He should have been able to work that out before auditioning for his first series. Personally I'm always going to call him "Doctor Who" just to spite him.
I think what probably happened was that he didn't realise how seriously some losers.. sorry.. Doctor Who fans would take the whole thing and they scarred him off.
I'm afraid that Little Britain is not funny. It's the same jokes recycled every week, which were barely amusing the first time. The fact that people go on and on about how great it is just shows how far British TV has descended into medeocrity.
This new badly written, badly acted Dr Who with awful special effects is merely putting the final nail into the coffin.