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According to a posting at the Bad Wilf podcast site, Christopher Eccleston, who played the Ninth Doctor when Doctor Who returned to BBC One in 2005, has given the reasons for only staying in the role for one season.

The site quotes Eccleston speaking at an acting master class held at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, in which he says that “my face didn’t fit”, and that he departed “because I could not get along with the senior people.  I left because of politics. I did not see eye-to-eye with them. I didn’t agree with the way things were being run. I didn’t like the culture that had grown up, around the series. So I left, I felt, over a principle.”

BadWilf states that the actor went on to explain that remaining in the role would have come at too high a price. “You’ve got to have standards, no matter how hard work it is.” However, he did emphasise that he “loved playing him. I loved connecting with that audience… [children] will not be bullshitted. It’s either good, or it’s bad.”

The full quote can be read here.