I would have liked McGann to have had an opportunity to do much more on TV. I wouldn't want him to come back now. He was very good, but I don't see how you could incorporate him into the show now without it being awful and lessening him as a result.
Who would love to see 8 back
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Originally Posted by Residents Fan:
“I agree. But it was never likely poor Paul would have
been considered for the DW role-the commerical failure of the TVM in the US would have meant producers thought
"McGann's DW story failed, therefore it would
be "box-office poison" to cast him as the
Doctor".
”
“I agree. But it was never likely poor Paul would have
been considered for the DW role-the commerical failure of the TVM in the US would have meant producers thought
"McGann's DW story failed, therefore it would
be "box-office poison" to cast him as the
Doctor".
”
Why? The movie was certainly successful in Britain. Perhaps it might have performed better in the US with a better-known actor, but not much. It's never gonig to be a mainstream programme there - it's not McGann that's box-office poison, it's Doctor Who itself.
I'd love to see him again. He made more impact on me in the movie than some did in whole series. Not to say they didn't all have their moments and I wouldn't not have seen them all (I know what I mean) but he had so much promise.
Originally Posted by NewbieCanuck:
“Why? The movie was certainly successful in Britain. Perhaps it might have performed better in the US with a better-known actor, but not much. It's never gonig to be a mainstream programme there - it's not McGann that's box-office poison, it's Doctor Who itself.”
“Why? The movie was certainly successful in Britain. Perhaps it might have performed better in the US with a better-known actor, but not much. It's never gonig to be a mainstream programme there - it's not McGann that's box-office poison, it's Doctor Who itself.”
The BBC executives were stating as late as
2001 that they considered the McGann TVM "a failure".
So it was obvious that they were very unlikely to
give McGann another chance-he wasn't even mentioned
as a possible lead in any of the various mooted TV and film
revivals of DW between 1997 and 2005. (RTD's 1999
plan, the proposed Paul W. S. Anderson film, etc.)
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