Catch Christopher Eccleston Promoting Fortitude on The One Show Tonight

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The Ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston, will be on The One Show tonight, chatting to Alex Jones and Matt Baker about new Sky Atlantic drama, Fortitude.

It’s quite a rare thing to see Eccleston on a talk show at all, so it’ll be a treat for fans of his leather-jacket-wearing Time Lord – although we do doubt he’ll say anything about Doctor Who. To be fair to him, that’s not what he’s there for!

In Fortitude, Christopher plays Professor Charlie Stoddart who’s working as head of a research centre in the Arctic Circle; the potentially-lucrative project could save his idyllic town, but the people of Fortitude are rocked by a mysterious death at the heart of their community. And he’s joined by The Day of the Doctor director, Nick Hurran, alongside a host of faces familiar to Whovians.

There’s Michael Gambon (A Christmas Carol), Chipo Chung (Utopia; Turn Left), Jessica Raine (Hide; Verity Lambert in An Adventure in Space and Time), Michael Obiora (Blink), and Alexandra Moen (Lucy Saxon in The Sounds of Drums/ Last of the Time Lords, and The End of Time) – so you likely won’t go five minutes without going, ‘ooh, I know that person!’

Eccleston has already said he’d be more than happy to return to Iceland to film a second series, and has enthused about the “extraordinary quality of light and air”, so expect general good humour tonight.

Gary Lineker will also be on The One Show as they broadcast the FA Cup Fifth Round Draw. Don’t get too excited, will you? Matt Baker, meanwhile, has also appeared in Doctor Who – in fact, in the Ninth Doctor episode, Aliens of London!

The One Show airs on BBCOne tonight at 7pm, and Fortitude debuts on Sky Atlantic at 9pm on Thursday 29th January.

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