Chris Eccleston on that shit let him talk!!!!
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Although Eccleston has reprised his role as the Doctor for audio dramas from Big Finish in recent years, he's famously stayed away from playing the character again in the television series, even as contemporaries like Billie Piper and David Tennant have returns to the show. Asked during his C2E2 2026 spotlight panel whether he'd return to the series, he was blunt in his honesty: "I thought about this, [and] not with the four people who are running it now."
That said, he immediately then outlined what would bring him back to Doctor Who on television.
"Here's the thing: Doctor Who's written for boys. There has never been a female showrunner of Doctor Who," Eccleston said. "So my dream is this: there was a little girl who was, I don't know -- six, seven, eight -- in 2005 when my series went out, and she gets the job, and she asked me back? I'd go back like a shot."
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