James Bye on leaving EastEnders and starring in new play

James Bye on leaving EastEnders and starring in new play

"It was sad to say goodbye, of course it was, and in an incredibly special episode, something I’ll never get to do again in my life.

EastEnders Star, James Bye, Wants to be the Next Doctor Who

Former EastEnders actor, James Bye, has said he’d like to play a future incarnation of Doctor Who. Bye played Martin Fowler for some 10 years in the soap, but left in the show’s live 40th anniversary special. Though he’s now carving out a career on stage (he’s playing Mr Darcy in the theatrical adaptation of P.D. James’ Death Comes to Pemberley), he’s been asked what role he’d like to take on in TV. And he replied: “I’ve joked about playing Doc…