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Dateline: 5th April, 2005 Beeb Boobs Over Eccleston The BBC has admitted that it made a mistake in announcing that Christopher Eccleston is to leave Dr Who after the one series and that he did not actually say the quote which it attributed to him. In spite of an agreement made with Eccleston in January that his leaving the series would not be made public, the announcement was made without consulting him. Jane Tranter, BBC head of drama commissioning said, "The BBC regrets not speaking to Christopher before it responded to the press questions on Wednesday 30th March. "The BBC further regrets that it falsely attributed a statement to Christopher and apologises to him. "Contrary to press statements Christopher did not leave for fear of being typecast or because of the gruelling filming schedule," she added. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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