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Move over Christopher Eccleston. Get out of the Tardis, David Tennant. It appears both of you owe your run as The Doctor in BBC's "Doctor Who" simply because actor Hugh Grant turned down the role.

And if Grant had it to do all over again, things would've been different, he recently told Contact Music.

"I was offered the role of The Doctor a few years back and was highly flattered," Grant told the publication. "The danger with those things is that it's only when you see it on the screen that you think, 'Damn, that was good, why did I say no?'"

Grant said he worried that the show would crash and burn, much like the series did at the end of its run in the 1980s, as well as the not-so-smashing success of the "Doctor Who" movie that was released in the 1990s. However, he thinks he might be able to set things right by vying to do a guest spot in the current run of the show that stars Tennant.

"I'm in talks about a one-off role," Grant said. "I'd prefer to be a baddie. They're always much more fun to play."

Grant currently stars in the film "Music and Lyrics," but is probably best known to moviegoers for his 1999 film "Notting Hill." Grant does very little television work, although he did do a voiceover for the feature "Legend of the Lost Tribe" in 2002 as well as 1999's "Hooves of Fire."

"Doctor Who" returns this spring on BBC, and later this year on SciFi Channel.