Christopher Eccleston Return to ‘Doctor Who’

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To repeat: Oh, fantastic! The continuum of space time blesses us with the return of Christopher Eccleston Doctor Who, more than 15 years later, as the Ninth Doctor, he quietly hung up his leather jacket and let the franchise go after unrest behind the scenes. Den or Geek reports that Eccleston has signed up to speak to a new series Doctor Who audio adventures, which will be released in May 2021. together by BBC Studios and Big Finish Productions. “It will be exciting to see the world of the Ninth Doctor,” he said in a statement, “to recreate a character I enjoy playing.” Eccleston has not been involved in any Doctor Who projects since he left after leading one season in 2005, which served as the comeback of the franchise for the ‘modern’ era. Conversely, other doctors, such as David Tennant and Matt Smith, have jumped at the chance to rediscover their characters in extra specials like audio series.

After years of silence and several compelling roles across the pond, Eccleston revealed in 2018 that the British film and television industry had blacklisted him after he left Doctor Who, which he says was thanks to the strained relationship with his “three direct superiors” – the showrunner and executive producers, who were Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner, and Phil Collinson, respectively. “It broke irreparably during the first block of films and it never came back,” Eccleston explained. “They lost confidence in me, and I lost confidence and confidence in them.”