Totally. Technically "Hex" also runs at around 13 episodes a season, too: but it's shit ("The British Buffy"). Two Pints of Lager - which I once wrote a script for: laugh now - also runs about 10 episodes a season, and is going on 6 seasons now. In fact, arguably Two Pints is the UK's longest running series of recent years, and BBC Three's highest rated. Which, I think, tells us something about the UK...
'Objects In Space'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
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Didn't the thirteen episodes of Who tucker Eccleston right out? High price to pay.
Well, the BBC had something like £1.6m for the 13 episode series of Doc Who, about half of which went on VFX. They had two main leads, so I'd imagine Eccleston probably got virtually nothing for it.
I don't know diddly about pay rates--I was just remembering the reports that he found it too exhausting so he didn't want another series.
I thought it plausible, considering it was an action series running a longer number of eps.
Didn't even think about money.
Well, give an actor enough money, and they'll keep doing something regardless, generally. If the pay is shit it's a bit "Why should I bother?".
I assume that actors are just people, and for some of them there just isn't enough money to do some things.
Actors are, of course, people. They are also people who work for money, and in many cases it's for a lot of it. Which is fine. You'll never see an actor say in an interview "Nah, I wouldn't do that again! The pay was shite!" - more like some kind of junket thing of "The work was really tiring". Well, I say never - it happens, but it's rare.
Personally, I thought Chris did an excellent job, and if they'd offered him sack fulls to return I'd be happy and gleeful.
I remember hearing he said he left because he didn't want to be typecast. Who knows.
that's the reason i heard too, KernelM. to that i say "whatever". at least you're getting work. who cares if you're typecast?
I believe every "Doctor" who has taken the role for the past 20 years hasn't worked since, and a lot of them do conventions each year now. Which is obviously a concern. The UK is a pretty insular market - if you're hot you do a short stint on a popular BBC or ITV show, and if you're not you last on them forever (Corry, Eastenders) or end up on The Bill or Hollyoaks.
The few people who have 'broken out' of the UK market (to much pay) have been those who've done something popular on the BBC, and then quit, and done things in the US. Which, as it happens, Chris is doing at the mo.