After years of rumours about who would play the Eighth Doctor in an American-financed Doctor Who (Eric Idle, David Hasslehoff, Richard O'Brien, Dudley Moore, Tom Baker, Sylvester Stallone, Tim Curry, John Cleese, Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Sylvester McCoy, Pierce Brosnan, Tom Conti, Ian Holm, Peter Davison, Bill Cosby...) scouser Paul McGann was picked by Producer Philip Seagal. McGann had previously been short-listed to succeed Michael Praed in Robin Of Sherwood, but the role went instead to the awful Jason Connery. He also began filming as the lead in the TV series of Sharpe, based on Bernard Cornwell's novels, but injured himself on location in Spain playing football, and was replaced by GoldenEye's Sean Bean.
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