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**Paddy** · 15 January 2006, 06:29

**Fat Tone** · 16 January 2006, 03:07

Originally posted by schmosef

...IIRC, there's been some shakeup with the actor playing the Doctor. The first guy quit for exhaustion and the second guy quit after like one or two episodes because he got a movie deal or something...

That's news to me. Christopher Ecclestone quit after series one (resulting in a rejigging of the last episode) claiming he didn't want to be type-cast. Maybe 'exhaustion' is a euphemism for something I didn't see.

His replacement is David Tennant. AFAIK he's still committed, and he is a rising star atm with several hit shows to his name. There has been talk of Billie Piper (who plays sidekick Rose) quitting. Do you have any links about Tennant quitting? Nothing on the BBC site I can see.

**schmosef** · 16 January 2006, 04:34

I don't remember where I read that. Maybe the forums at TV.com.

**uberlad** · 16 January 2006, 05:36

Tennant has promised to stay until the Beeb or the fans want him to leave. And after th Christmas special I can't see that being for a while

Billie Piper doesn't get on with the crew or Russell T Davis (apparently) and is leaving the show at the end of season 2.

that's what I hear. Possibly from the BBC themselves.

Uberlad

**Fat Tone** · 16 January 2006, 05:42

That is what I hear about Billie. It seems reasonable to me for one Doctor to have several sidekicks anyway. And she is a bit annoying. Perhaps she could die at the hands of the cybermen

**schmosef** · 16 January 2006, 07:27

Billie Piper isn't really known over here. I take it she's a pop singer?

**Fat Tone** · 16 January 2006, 07:29

She was, and was married to Chris Evans (infamous TV presenter / DJ) for a while.

**uberlad** · 16 January 2006, 07:34

Didn't she start life in Eastenders or similar misery-based UK soap opera? I'm sure that she didn't spring fully formed into a pop career, not with her 'skills' as a singer 8-).

That was pretty much the creepiest courtship I've ever been forced to watch on TV (her and Chris Evans)

**lowlifecat** · 16 January 2006, 08:06

She's married?!?!?!

Dammit, there is no justice in this world.

/meow

**uberlad** · 16 January 2006, 10:52

She's either seperated or divorced.

Although I think this thread is wandering slightly off topic

Uberlad

**Fat Tone** · 16 January 2006, 11:42

She is separated from Chris, but they are good friends. They will divorce as soon as some legal time period elapses.

Once that happens you have a chance, lowlifecat

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