Doctor Who TV movie director recalls actor who came "extremely close" to playing the Eighth Doctor

Doctor Who TV movie director recalls actor who came "extremely close" to playing the Eighth Doctor

Doctor Who TV movie director Geoffrey Sax has revealed how close another actor came to playing the Eighth Doctor, before Paul McGann ultimately won the role.McGann made his debut as the Time Lord in the 1996 TV movie, a feature-length co-production between the BBC and Fox that was intended as a pilot for a new Doctor Who series.But, in a new interview with Radio Times, Sax recalled that the actor was not already attached to the project when he c…