Alan Cumming was almost the Doctor - Twice!

But one small thing got in the way each time...

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017...-was-one-crucial-requirement-that-put-him-off

 

lol.
He would be a great Doctor though.

 

Phew. Glad he wasn't.

 

Damn, that sucks. He would a be a terrific Doctor.

 

He would have been a great choice, but I can see why he wouldn't want to do that.

 

Wow. Poor Cardiff...

 

That's like saying poor New Jersey.

 

Ooooy!

 

For some reason, I thought Cumming was also cast as the Doctor circa 2000/2001 in some Bill Baggs project for one of the local BBC stations as some sort of "backdoor" way of making Doctor Who (something Baggs was an expert at), until the plug was pulled when someone said, "No, you can't do that."

ETA: I was off by three years. It was 2004, and it was BBC South. Easy to see why the BBC scuttled this; the RTD series was imminent.

 

I actually googled whether that was his real name.

 

Alan Cumming had a central role in one of Bill Baggs' not-Who but with lots of Who actors productions... either Air Zone Solution or Zero Imperative.

 

Not to pull hairs but I've heard multiple times it's "9 months out of the year in cardiff"

Alan Cummings is immediately booking a flight back to the US LOL

 

Kinda reminds me of some of the actors who quit "Homicide: Life on the Street" because they hated working in Baltimore.

 

To be fair, as someone who works in Baltimore, I completely sympathize with their viewpoint.