Steven Moffat
Steven Moffat is a television writer who has written many shows in the drama and / or comedy genre, most notably "Press Gang", "Coupling", and "Jekyll".
He is notable for writing the first piece of televised Doctor Who since the 1996 TV movie; the Comic Relief story The Curse of the Fatal Death, which brought the Daleks, The Master and multiple incarnations of the Doctor to the screen, as well as the Hugo award winning storylines The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, and The Girl in the Fireplace, Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead. Steven also wrote Time Crash the first multi-doctor story of the new series.
On the 20th May 2008, Steven Moffat was announced to be the executive producer and head writer of Doctor Who starting on the fifth season in 2010. His takeover from Russell T. Davies, the man who revived the show in 2005, was met with joy. He said in a BBC press release [1]: "My entire career has been a Secret Plan to get this job. I applied before but I got knocked back 'cos the BBC wanted someone else. Also I was seven. Anyway, I'm glad the BBC has finally seen the light, and it's a huge honour to be following Russell into the best - and the toughest - job in television. I say toughest 'cos Russell's at my window right now, pointing and laughing."
Steven Moffat's work on Doctor Who contains many themes: no one has died onscreen except as a result of old age or illness, the Doctor's name is usually mentioned (Reinette and River Song know it), and timelines and the confusion that surrounds them are constantly mentioned.
Several years ago (March 1995) Steven Moffat said (during a discussion after at least one round of drinks with Andy Lane, Paul Cornell and David Bishop) "There's 24 of them a year (Virgin New Adventures novel releases), that's too bloody many! I've never wanted 24 new Doctor Who adventures a year in my life. Six was a perfectly good number."[1]. (If you add up the Doctor Who story output for 2007; TV stories 14, Big Finish audio dramas; 12, BBC Books novels 11 full length novels...not counting all the other fiction produced comes to a total of 37)
Filmography
Doctor Who - TV stories
- The Empty Child
- The Doctor Dances
- The Girl in the Fireplace
- Blink
- Time Crash
- Silence in the Library
- Forest of the Dead
Doctor Who charity productions
External links
- Steven Moffat at the Internet Movie Database
- TSV 43 (March 1995) Four Writers, One Discussion - Andy Lane, Paul Cornell, Steven Moffat & David Bishop By Guy Blythman
