Re: Freema Agyeman axed from doctor who

On May 31, 7:35 pm, Daniel Lincoln <subtlef...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 31 May 2007 08:10:32 -0700, Flying Tortoise





<purple....@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 31, 3:36 pm, if <nom...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ed <eabow...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
According to the sun, so it must be true...

Christopher Eccleston stunned the BBC by quitting as the Timelord
after the first series of the revamped drama in 2005.

This line keeps getting trotted out, but IIRC wasn't Ecclestone as
surprised as anyone when the BBC announced that he was "quitting"? I seem
to recall them being forced to retract it, yet the media keeps repeating it
as if it were true (not that this trait is anything unusual for the mass
media...) Anyhow I was under the impression that they dumped him because of
the half-baked RTD notion that a Dr.Who series must feature a regeneration,
whereas originally it was a plot device dreamt up out of necessity. When
invention becomes the mother of necessity, you know things are screwed up.

Obviously you don't RC!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2005/03/31/18233....

There was a retraction of the original BBC statement which said that
Ecclestone's reasons were exhaustion from the long filming schedule.
There has never been any retraction of the fact that it was his
decision to leave.

I thought the retraction was of the implication that he'd been worried
about becoming typecast.

A bit of both apparently ...

"An initial statement issued by the BBC said Eccleston feared being
typecast and had found the series gruelling - although the BBC later
accepted the statement was not correct and said it had not spoken to
Eccleston before releasing it."

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