Doctor Who will return to BBC 1 and BBC America for the 2016 Christmas special.
After a lengthy hiatus of more than 15 years, British fan-favorite series Doctor Who finally returned to television back in 2005 under the guidance of creator and Who aficionado Russell T. Davies.
Eccleston went on to play Claude in Heroes and villain Malekith in Thor: The Dark World, but he’s still best known for starring in Doctor Who.
Yet once it was clear Eccleston wouldn’t be participating, new showrunner Stephen Moffat was forced to rewrite the story and introduced John Hurt as the War Doctor.