RD
Doubt there will be a regeneration on TV, if Paul McGann ends up being better than Chris Ecclestone in his few scenes, people will start asking why he wasn't cast instead...
If there is a regeneration, it will probably be in the BBC Books series.
rdd
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Ed Hammond posted:
Yes, I agree.
But I'm not sure if McGann would be too keen. After all, he'll have been annoyed that a potentially lucrative and really rather enjoyable stint as Doctor - which he would have had, had the pilot not bombed in the US - has been lost to him. I don't know, though, we'll see - I do suspect they'll do *something* though.
Christopher Eccleston will be very good though. Maybe he'll be a gritty, Northern Doctor, with downtrodden working class dignity, since the characters he's played hitherto have been a bit of that ilk. Well, we'll see.
Now we have to discuss who his assistant's going to be...
But I'm not sure if McGann would be too keen. After all, he'll have been annoyed that a potentially lucrative and really rather enjoyable stint as Doctor - which he would have had, had the pilot not bombed in the US - has been lost to him. I don't know, though, we'll see - I do suspect they'll do *something* though.
Christopher Eccleston will be very good though. Maybe he'll be a gritty, Northern Doctor, with downtrodden working class dignity, since the characters he's played hitherto have been a bit of that ilk. Well, we'll see.
Now we have to discuss who his assistant's going to be...
Doubt there will be a regeneration on TV, if Paul McGann ends up being better than Chris Ecclestone in his few scenes, people will start asking why he wasn't cast instead...
If there is a regeneration, it will probably be in the BBC Books series.