Conor O’Brien – Daily Mail April 14, 2026
Christopher Eccleston has hit out at ‘woke‘ TV bosses for ‘turning white, middle-aged men into toxic villains’ in a scathing rant.
The actor, 62, is well known for his roles in Our Friends In The North, The Leftovers and playing the Ninth Doctor in Doctor Who.
Speaking in a new interview, Christopher claimed there was a ‘trend’ among antagonists in current scripted dramas.
It comes as he is set to play a sinister cult leader in upcoming six-part Netflix series Unchosen.
Christopher told Radio Times magazine: ‘There’s a great trend in drama at the moment for antagonists who are toxic, white, apparently heterosexual, late-middle-aged men.
‘Thankfully, Julia gave him dimension and placed him in a story of tragedy involving the loss of his son and alcoholism.
‘It’s a gift of a role because of the awkward questions it asks of our audience.’
He added: ‘Historically, there would be programmes that I watched when I was young where I would feel patronised – Love Thy Neighbour or whatever – but there was a lot where I felt I was being respected.
‘The likes of Play for Today and The Naked Civil Servant.
‘But with the erosion of the writers’ culture to almost writing by committee, I’ve heard stories about some of the idiotic – and sometimes downright hateful – assumptions about the audience’s intelligence today.
‘A lot of people in television think the audience is stupid.’
Christopher also told the publication: ‘Masculinity is in crisis, and it seems it’s particularly white, working-class boys who are being neglected, left to rot by governments and targeted by the far Right.
‘So as an ex-working class white boy, I try, if I can, to address some of those things. Masculinity shouldn’t be contingent on other people’s oppression.’
Written by Julie Gearey, Unchosen is set to debut on the streaming platform from April 21.
A synopsis for the psychological thriller reads: ‘When a young mother from a sheltered cult crosses paths with a mysterious stranger, she embarks on a risky affair that awakens desires and dark secrets.’
Alongside Christopher, the cast includes Asa Butterfield, Siobhan Finneran, Molly Windsor and Fra Free.
Elsewhere, Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies warned last month that his new show is ‘woke on a colossal scale’ and ‘will be hated’ as he ditches the BBC in favour of Channel 4
From the team behind the ground-breaking Queer as Folk, gritty Channel 4 series Tip Toe will follow two neighbours, played by acting legends Alan Cumming and David Morrisey, who end up becoming enemies as the world becomes less tolerant and more divisive.
Russell’s last drama for Channel 4 was the devastating and critically acclaimed, It’s A Sin, which followed a group of young friends during the 1980s AIDS crisis.
Now Russell will again shed light on the community as he explores the rising animosity and dangerous prejudice facing LGBTQ+ people today.
Russell said the purpose of the show is to highlight how ‘simply being gay in 2026 is political’.
He told Deadline: ‘People will hate it. My word this show is going to get called woke on a colossal scale, but I’m happy to be called woke.’
Russell approached his long-time producing partner with the idea for the show because he wanted to shed light on the increased hostility the queer community have been facing.
‘I felt the queer discourse was becoming so hostile and dangerous in a way I never thought would happen again, so I came to Nicola [Shindler] and said, “Hello, let’s do this”,’ he said.
A synopsis of the series, which is from Quay Street Productions, reads: ‘The five-part series will follow Leo [Alan Cumming] and Clive [David Morrissey] who live next door to each other in Manchester. Leo runs a bar on Canal Street and Clive’s an electrician, with two teenage sons.
‘But just as life should be settling down, the world around them is growing more tense.
‘Words become weapons, opinions become radicalised, and gradually, two neighbours become deadly enemies in a tense, suburban thriller which challenges everything we consider to be safe.
‘The series, populated with a cast of vibrant characters and underscored with Davies’ trademark wit and deft humour, is an urgent yet gripping tale that brings a spotlight to bear on the re-emergence of an incipient threat.’
The BBC has long been involved with TV brain washing
one of the most evil racist brainwashing was over that jewboy playing Alf Garnet
but its bigger than that
advertisers spend millions as they know it works
after 9 at night and right through till morning we have films with violence mostly murders of women one after another
if you accept advertising works then you have to accept the violence and filth does as well
when the 2 boys who murdered little jamie bulger were interviewed it turned out the 2 killers were watching this filth regularly on TV
Trio caused £2.4million damage to a firm linked to the Israeli military, court hears
Story by Shannon McGuigan
A heroic trio have been accused of causing £2.4million worth of damage to a company said to be linked to the Israeli military, a magistrates’ court heard.
Steven Davies, 57, Ian Roberts, 51, and Dolores Gnapi, 34, allegedly broke into a Keysight Technologies premises in Fleet, Hampshire, in the early hours of Sunday, Westminster Magistrates Court heard on Tuesday.
Nice one, israel must understand bombing families and starving them is just not on
Trump rages at Keir Starmer on immigration as he slams the UK: ‘You can’t succeed!’
Story by Rebecca Robinson • 1h •
Donald Trump has given a brazen assessment of the US relationship with the UK, and hit out at Britain’s policies on importing in migrants Speaking to Sky News, he said: “I love your country and I would love to see it succeed. But if you have very bad immigration policies and bad energy policies, you have the worst of both. You can’t succeed, not possible.”
The US President said he still took the opportunity to hit out at his North Sea drilling policy, which goes against his “drill baby, drill” mantra. Mr Trump also claimed that Britain has the highest energy prices in the world, and once again criticised Sir Keir’s stance on immigration, which he sees as national suicide , which is the opinion of most Brits
The US President said he liked the Prime Minister, even though his dislike of homosexuals is well known, just like Boris Johnston
“It comes as he is set to play a sinister cult leader in upcoming six-part Netflix series Unchosen”.
He’s happy to still take the sheckles though?
If there’s one thing more pathetic than the tv-addicted THICK Brit..
it’s the WOKE Thick Brit who writes the script… 🙄
Here’s an anti-racist TV insurance ad in Canada:
Die white man DIE!!!
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how are gays being increasingly targeted????? have i missed something here or what????
While this what Eccleston says is true, I have a deeper problem. He is just an actor who credentials for speaking are essentially “fame”.
Now the problem is, the mainstream media operates through the vehicle of fame and other credentialled “experts”. By highlighting a hitherto mainstream promoted individual, TTS runs into Marshall McLuhan’s, “The Media is the message” problem IMO. He argued – according to my search:
The “form of a medium (technology) embeds itself in any message it transmits, creating a symbiotic relationship that shapes human perception and society more than the content itself. The medium influences society by the characteristics of the medium itself, not the content delivered over the medium.”
Which means that the considered well-articulated comments of “unimportant” people are essentially minimised by the opinions of who the mainstream media – including a likely now fallen-angel like Eccleston – deems worthy.
As a TTS loyalist and indeed someone who has very recently acknowledged this website in my recent book, the constant deferment to talking-heads – IMO – inculcates with readers the importance of the messaging medium rather than content. By acting as an echo chamber for the “great and the good”, TTS imprints in the minds of the readers the importance of celebrity, fame, and other mainstream credentials rather than content and argument.
That shnook in the photo looks like he’s played “Lucky Pierre” before…i.e. the middle guy in a queer sodomite sandwich.