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 From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca 
  
 In article <42b5b707$1_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>, 
 John Russell  wrote: 
 > 
 >"The Doctor"  wrote in message 
 >news:d93pdv$9hs$22@gallifrey.nk.ca... 
 >> In article , 
 >> Stephen Wilson  wrote: 
 >>> 
 >>>"The Doctor"  wrote in message 
 >>>news:d93p4o$9hs$17@gallifrey.nk.ca... 
 >>>> In article <42b54f98$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>, 
 >>>> John Russell  wrote: 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>>"Martin Arnold"  wrote in message 
 >>>>>news:d92eqc$2nl$1@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com... 
 >>>>>> So what was all that about CE quitting the show after the first 
 >>>>>> episode 
 >>>>>> was 
 >>>>>> aired? Given that weve just seem him regenerate, it must have been 
 >>>>>> planned. 
 >>>>>> This means that the newspapers have grossly misrepresented him (which 
 >>>>>> make 
 >>>>>> shim look like a bad actor). Or was it all a joke at our expense? I'm 
 >>>>>> not 
 >>>>>> entirely sure what's happened - and I'm not convinced of the wisdom of 
 >>>>>> replacing an actor this soon. 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>>Eccalston is a renouned "proper" actor. If RTD wanted him to raise the 
 >>>>>profile of the program ,as well as giving a cracking performance, he 
 >>>>>couldn't dictate terms. Unlike  US actors, decent British actors are 
 >>>>>more 
 >>>>>likely to walk away from a project than be locked into a multi-series 
 >>>>>deal. 
 >>>>>Far better to go that way than have a second rate actor desperate to be 
 >>>>>on 
 >>>>>TV. 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>> 
 >>>> 
 >>>> So RTD may have lost control. 
 >>> 
 >>>No, I don't think he has. 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >> 
 >> Key on the word may as in potentially. 
 > 
 >Compromise dosn't mean losing control in my book. 
 > 
 > 
  
 Depends who is doing the compromising. 
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