Indeed, I prefer him to be happy rather than him being disappointed with the state of parks, which in fairness I do not blame him.

Fantastic!

Yeah you can see the checks cleared... a man's gotta eat!

No, I'm not crying...YOURE crying!

Yep, I'd walk a mile for that smile :-))

Yeah, took the high road compared to what he could've said about the Beeb.

more than that - it must mean the scripts actually are really good, 'cause I doubt he'd be the kind of guy to lie about that!

It's the basics of capitalism. I hate how much capitalism is almost viewed as a sin. You work for $$$. There are a few exceptions like Leno who is well known for working for minimum pay just to have something fun to do, like be a pace car driver

@@meltymetroid253 you say that, he put no effort into emphasising his point of “The Big Finish writing quality is great” 😂

Im probably the minority here, but the fact his main reason for not coming back to the show was money, make me like him so much less. in 2020 I can understand it, but thats no reason to skip out on the 50th back in 2013. He then goes on to say the writing was another big part of his decision, and that just feels like a cop out to me. For years it was "Oh i dont like to bathe in the river twice" line, and now your suddenly ok with it? oh right...money. Day of the Doctor was an amazing episode, and I refuse to believe he chose not to reprise his role because of the quality of the script. A part of me will never forgive him for biting his thumb at the fans, when we wanted him back the most.

Congratulations on complete pub crawl Mr. King 😂

I think “British Harrison Ford” perfectly sums up him.

You know its funny when he admitted he did it for the money my mind went straight to Harrison Ford and his honestly about Star Wars, its good they dont feel the need to pay a load of lip service fakery to why they pick a project, some jobs are for the pay cheque but he still backed that up by saying he liked the scripts so it wasnt just about the money.

@@lindamuvic8110 uncalled for, especially given Chris' much publicised battles with body image & mental health please delete your message.

Not gonna lie, the fact he admitted that it's only for the money and not out of any sort of genuine interest in revisiting the character just ruins the hype for me. No, not every actor involved in a production has to be a massive fan, but for something like Doctor Who it helps tremendously to have professionals involved who also happen to be fans, both on screen and on the page. Big Finish does fantastic writing but now that I know Christopher Eccleston's only back for the money, if I listen to these audios all the bits where his Doctor is meant to be sounding elated about something and energetic are just going to strike me as forced and insincere now. Kind of takes the joy out of it.

@@filthycasual8187 but he didn't say he was only back for the money. As for things sounding forced & insincere. It's called acting.

When the first episode of his tenure came out it was that line, together with the speech about feeling the earth turn under his feet, that made me think "yep, he's the Doctor".

Funny enough that's the exact quote that came to my mind as well, and it's not even one of my favorite ones of his but it sticks out so well lol

I giggled - thanks for that😂

"You never had any shelves to put up?"

I saw-well no I heard a commercial (I was in the next room but could still hear the tv) once a few years ago for a show called Fortitude. I heard the voice and immediately rushed in to rewind because I knew I’d just heard Nine 😃 all he said was “Welcome to Fortitude” but his voice is so instantly recognizable 💜

Think you mean...FANTASTIC

I could listen to Chris reading the phone book!

Nice!

Amen to that :-)

I mean, people don't really get into acting for the money, but it's absolutely needed, like there are safer career choices to go for, but acting is the "if I'm going to work, I'm going to do something I'm passionate and enjoy", the job.

Honestly, I'm sure this would also be exactly the right job for myself. I'm just too scared and unexperienced to dare...

@@chanceneck8072 Unexperienced? Trying it will get you experience, not sitting around, everyone starts at some time, Michael Kane started in his 50's or something, he's an oscar winner. The older you get, the more you'll worry about that, so just jump into it now. Scared? I mean everyone gets nervous, but you get used to it and start to enjoy the thrill eventually, and you also become better at physically and emotionally opening up, plus internalizing the character.

To be fair he never hated Doctor Who. His issue was with the production team at the time. They treated him and fellow crew members badly (there's talk of bullying) . Some even said there was some sort of altercation between him and RTD during the filming of Boom Town (I don't know if this is true but there was some conflict with him and the production) . He also had to fight to keep his northern Accent as the production team wanted a standard English accent. Being reminded of his days as a victim of bullying growing up made his time in Doctor Who very miserable so he walked away. However, Eccleston always says the best part of his time on the show was the love he received from the fans.

love 'im

"woohoo!"

@@tenshiigarashi4063 I was surprised when other new doctors spoke and had far different accents than their character and realized they had to act with an accent not their own. Uncool. Good acting, but uncool they could not have a representation of another accent of UK.

No doubt Christopher enjoyed some peanuts that night.

yes after he called out some of the unprofessional activities of co-workers. They blacklisted him.

@@gregevigan Given we now know what those activities where with Clarke, Barrowman... Pretty shocking.

@@Ryuujin1024 what happened?

@@gregevigan blacklisted?

I mean I haven't got the link but my partner saw that apparently the BBC won't be doing Doctor who any more and it will go to another place. Who knows. Maybe he will come back for a one off when that happens.

I'm Pierre and so is my wife.

Well, the two aren't mutually exclusive. It would be great to do a job just for the joy of it, but have to eat, too.

Same 😂 I though the universe would implode

Well, as people have said here... he only is cos he's skint due to the pandemic. Had this not occurred he wouldn't be seen dead answering questions for goggled eyed, sci-fi mongs.

Now, we just need him to say "DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE OFFICIAL DOCTOR WHO KZfaq CHANNEL"...

@@blofeld39 oh yes!

@@rnw2739 nope. That is not the only reason. Stop lying.

The Doctor usually does . Doctors never give up , and never give in.

@@mythghost Aww I just wanted to write that uwu

he wont

If people need reminding or told what to do then how thick in the head are they that they can't do it off if their own initiative or if they like it that much, people that say "don't forget to subscribe like the video and channel" are the most annoying pricks ever and if they do say that in a video, purely because they said it , there are those of us who don't because of that reason

@@jimmyboynottknown7713 Did you just disrespect the great Capaldaddy...? 👀

@@shoogamoogaman Ecclestone tennent capaldi smith , my favourites

Same, I appreciate the down to earth and professional perspective to it a lot. How he assesses big finish is especially reassuring, cus u know he's not just being sappy about it cus of an attachment to the license

Why not primates?

Blundering around

Once you’re the doctor you are always the doctor no matter what!

Can you send audio? Dying to hear this

@@lilstax-empty- no you have to buy it like we all do. Support Big Finish.

@@gregevigan would support it but if someone can email it to me for free why wouldn’t I I’m a student I have no disposable income right now and I have bought a audio book before, but I understand

@@lilstax-empty- At that point it's piracy. Maybe you can ask for Christmas to get it.

@@lilstax-empty- sorry but Big Finish are a small company so it is not nice to try to defraud them.

I think he recently said no to a return to the tv show

@@mattdotsko he’s always said no- for years and years now, yet people will still 9 times out of 10 ask him about it in interviews.

@@jackgillette7831 but what if they reeeeeally made it WORTH hi$ tim€ ....he does have to provide for his kids...

@@akevy8 It would still involve working with the BBC. His issue was never with Doctor Who, it was always with the BBC. He'll never work with them again I think

Just like Nine. No messing about.

He’s always pretty honest yet fairly modest.

@@sharonerigonia2917 when one looks into his childhood you can see why he has that perspective.

It's the northern attitude. Reminds me of Karl Pilkington.

@@crimsondynamo615 could you explain ?

He literally said it was for the money lol

@@drewbrown3082 and he said starting, Matt Smith did it for the money and his career and no one says anything bad about him

@@drewbrown3082 You can do something for money and still feel proud of what you made. And his second reason for doing the Doctor again, "the scripts are fantastic," also speaks to the fact that he's proud of what he does. He's not going to do something he can't look back on and be proud to say "I made this!"

@@Crazymoniker yeah I know it's just in past he sorta gave the notion he didn't enjoy his time with who

@@blamass6708 David Tennant initially wasn't going to take the role but didn't wanna say to people in future he turned down being the doctor

Hi

Hi timeworks, your content is Fantastic, Absolutely fantastic!

Hello from the future!

Hi

I'm glad you're with us as a Whovian! it's so nice to share something like this with a big KZfaq star and just get along as friends!

Absolutely fantastic 💗

@@mikaelastefkova and you know what?.... So was I 😁

considering Nick Brigs IS the voice of the daleks, yeh it did!!

I've been saying this for years!

@@andrewgrant6516 don't let Briggs hear u say that he is very touchy about criticism

🤣🤣🤣

The shade 🤣🤣

RIP

John Hurt was perfect. I wish he had more time as the Doctor :( but it`s too late now :(

Shame John Hurt won't get another episode maybe eccleston would come back for 60 of they did a special?

I’ve heard (second hand so take it with a grain of salt) that he originally refused because Moffat’s first script didn’t do it for him, and its thanks to his refusal that we got the amazing lore of the War Doctor and John Hurt to join the family of incarnations. If that’s true it all worked out for the best (and Day of the Doctor is easily the best anniversary special and massive multi Doctor story). I would have liked for Eccleston to been shown the new script (if the story is true) have returned just for the flying around Gallifrey scene (for some new footage) and to shoot the regeneration from War to 9. I also would have liked for The Night of the Doctor to have just been the first part of the Day of the Doctor (instead of a KZfaq special) and for Paul McGann to have also shot some new footage for the flying around Gallifrey scene, but hey you can’t get everything I guess. Eccleston returning as 9 for the audio dramas, doing a Q&A (getting real in it), and praising the script and Big Finish team (they do honestly feel like on average they care a lot about DW and intimately know the various aspects on it) is already more than I ever thought possible after hearing how he left.

Day of the Doctor is character-ruiningly stupid. Far better to have Chris back for these audios in my opinion, gives him a chance to have more stories of his own.

I love 9 he’s also mine as well as 8 and 5 I wrote this reply when I have 8th 11th 12th 3rd sonic

Chris has really grown on me a lot in recent years, he's up there with Capaldi, Troughton and McGann for me

Bless your heart! While Eccleston isn't MY Doctor, but I know EXACTLY how you feel, and I'm totally onboard with you and that fabulous emotional resonance (for me it was was when Tom Baker appeared suddenly in Day of the Doctor or when the vision of Amy Pond came to 11 at the end...so many tears). Salute!!!

My favourites have always been David, Christopher and Matt. They’re all tied for my favourite. It’s the trio for me.

Yup. Long ago I grew up watching some of 4th Doctor stories and he was my favourite one. Since then, and considering that Matt's were the last episodes I've seen so far, Christopher became my favourite incarnation. His intensity, his delivery, his roughness even, his... honesty. While other Doctors rather look like themselves like silly or clownish or quirky, 9th was a true survivor and a fighter. I never found any of that in his successors, and that was a huge loss for the main character. Eccleston forever!

Also helps that he's a phenomenal actor.

Yes, we know who you are (and yes, it's certainly exciting)

Your name made me laugh out loud. 😄

All these replies are gold 🤣

Samee

I imagine Dr Who was a daily part of his life ever since he got the role, as he's very recognisable, and it changed his life completely, mostly due to the fact that he was blacklisted by the BBC, which is why for a while you only saw him in American productions like GI Joe and Thor 2. But you can tell he doesn't hold disdain for Dr Who, because he's likely directly interacted with hundreds of people who have nothing but praise for his role, so for him this was a win-win, he gets money during a period of time where jobs for an actor are far more scarce, and he gets to return to a role that had a major impact on his life.

@@rocketmik65 he is in that wonderful show, the A Word about a young autistic boy. He plays the boy's grandad.

I'm sure he's always expressed appreciation to fans, and the content of show itself wasn't the primary reason for his departure, either.

@@rocketmik65 he got blacklisted?

@@starry_lis yes. He called out the bad behaviour of co-workers so left the show & then the BBC blacklisted him. That is why he had to go to America for work.

The Engels have the phone box. Lol.

@@andrewgrant6516 😆

L-Light?! Is that you my son??

Ok he's good, but 11 and 10 are by *far* more popular

Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee crap on this guy from a very high height I'm afraid.

@@MrMadre It's undeniable that 4 and 10 are the most popular doctors in pop culture, but with Doctors like 9, 11, and 13, they were the jumping on points for thousands of fans so they would be more popular with their respective audiences and will keep their own fanbases for years.

@@MrMadre best and popular are two different things. What’s popular is objective fact, and people can consider what’s popular to be the best, but what someone considers best is entirely subjective, and may not link up with what is popular.

hes doing the voice of the 2nd doctor already, it will happen!

Samee ✨ When I saw him for a first time in telly, I Immediately fell for Doctor Who. ☀️ It was probably a first sci-fi I saw (I was 8 y.o.) and it's still my favorite one 🌺🌿

Like wise

I think in an interview from a few months ago, that he would only return to TV Doctor Who when "hell freezes over".

Like he said here, it's all about the money and the writing. I doubt the current writing is up to his standards.

@@pigwarts that's why I also hope Chibnall either leaves or is fired by then or that at the very least BBC hires someone else to write the 60th anniversary.

@@Ethan-dn1wc I would love to write for Doctor Who one day. Who knows, I might get to write the anniversary. I already have a wild idea for a 2 parter for Doctor Who.

@@aaronkay101kinetic If I were with BBC I would hire you. Anyone would be better than Chibnall, not even Moffat's last series was this bad.

Season 1 was the best I agree. Really stuck with me the most where as everything that came after hasn’t really as much. Tennants early run was great and some of his closing episodes were to

“Idiot chief in her stupid hat” ?

@@murdermcmurderface That's the exact phrase he used to describe the Queen of England on his Instagram.

@@tTaseric ah.

I think he will.

10's already done crossovers with 4 5 and 6 I'm sure hell catch up with Chris eventually

@@julieeverett7442 I know but it's always nice for the tenth to meet someone new plus I would love Paul Macgan to meet both Chris and David that would be awesome

@@12345gerrard I'd like Sylvester, Paul Chris and David to meet up, 2 pre time war, two post and how they'd react to each other, what sent 8th over the edge that he finally decided to fight? Now THERE is a story!

@@julieeverett7442 definitely

better yet.....the the 9th return and replace the current one.....

As the Doctor regenerates, so does the theme tune

@@guavasmoothie5516 Kind of. They've sometimes changed it more than once in the middle of a Doctor's run.

Part of the tradition, I think its good, gives fans different options to enjoy. For me the season 4 version will always be the best.

it started with 5th, each doctor had their own theme, whether this is a good thing or not is up to debate!!

HE WONT HAVE ANY ROLE IN THE 60TH

@@gregevigan stfu loser

Seems he admitted that what he needs to come back is a great script and a buttload of money.

@@gregevigan yeah, I mean, RTD is in charge of the 60th, and Eccleston didn't have a great working relationship with him

Here from the future. No role at all, wasted opportunity.