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Doctor Who writer Steven Moffat on fans seeing him as "Omni-Bigot" topped traffic on Bleeding Cool yesterday Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for the biggest stories the day before – as well as over the past six years Founded fifteen years ago, and steeped in a history of comic book industry[...]

  With Nicola Coughlan (Derry Girls, Bridgerton)-starring, Steven Moffat-written, and Alex Pillai-directed Christmas Special "Joy to the World" serving as this year's Christmas Special for Showrunner Russell T Davies' Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday)-starring Doctor Who, we get to gave Moffat back in the middle of "The WHO-niverse" for a little while longer[...]

They included Paul Cornell, Mark Gatiss, and future showrunners Davies and Steven Moffat Davies' first and only novel was a Virgin "The New Adventures" novel, "Damaged Goods," which takes place in a South London estate and features a family named the Tylers It contained a darker, adult tone but also the early version of many[...]

Former showrunner Steven Moffat introduced the term "timey-wimey" in the series and now it's a common term in Science Fiction circles and storytelling in various other TV series, most recently heard on Star Trek: Prodigy The most interesting latest effect the series has had recently is that the LGBTQ community in America is now saying[...]

Davies revived the series in 2005, and it was he who repeatedly used the imagery throughout his run, and Steven Moffat also played with it to a certain degree It began with "Father's Day" when the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) sacrifices himself in a church, only to come back to life when Time is restored It[...]

Steven Moffat brought in new characters like Kate Stewart (Gemma Redgrave), the Brigadier's daughter, to lead a kinder, gentler, slightly less trigger-happy leader of UNIT with scientific advisor Petronella Osgood (Ingrid Oliver) with Davies then introducing scientific advisors Shirley Anne Bingham (Ruth Madeley) and Morris Gibbons (Lennie Rush), and alien robot Vrinx (voiced by regular[...]

Grant previously appeared in the series during Steven Moffat's run as showrunner, the first time playing a Scooge-like villain Dr Simeon in Victorian London in the Christmas Special "Snowmen" then again in "The Name of the Doctor" as a classic series villain The Great Intelligence inhabiting the face and body of Dr Simeon He also[...]

Davies and Steven Moffat wrote some of the most experimental episodes and even gave us some classic episodes like "Blink." "Doctor-Lite" episodes were characters either of the companion or a guest character, and a way to tell a story with a different theme. With this new season one, Ncuti Gatwa wasn't available because he was contractually[...]

When Steven Moffat writes for Doctor Who, he often goes for bangers, especially his one-off episodes "Boom" is the latest one that everyone will be talking about again Moffat is as much of a continuity geek as Russell T Davies and has not-so-secretly created a whole continuity within the series that he draws on ever[...]

In Doctor Who, Villengard is a long-running background baddie created by Steven Moffat as far back as the series' 2005 revival Villengard is a planet whose entire business is to be the biggest arms manufacturer in the known universe, which immediately makes them the bad guys in any Doctor Who story Their name is a[...]

The first two episodes of this season were cute, goofy, and sentimental, with "The Devil's Chord" the show at its most gleefully demented, but "Boom" is properly dark and even merciless, a parable about war and the callous greed of Capitalism. Image: BBC/Disney+ Doctor Who: Steven Moffat's Masterclass in Screenwriting "Boom" is a story that writing students should[...]

Steven Moffat's return as a freelance screenwriter on the new season of Doctor Who this week was, to put it mildly, highly anticipated Russell T Davies, Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson have all talked up "BOOM" as an instant classic that will be talked about for years to come Your back might be up in[...]

This weekend sees former Doctor Who Showrunner Steven Moffat regenerating into a freelance screenwriter to return as the writer of "Boom."  As he wrote in "The Day of the Doctor," sometimes you want to revisit the old faces, especially the favourites Well, here he is in a meta return to the series And he's also[...]

It gave the hero stakes in the series and was also a clean slate for new viewers to enter the show. Steven Moffat retconned Gallifrey and the Time Lords back to life in "The Day of the Doctor" by having three Doctors go back to the Time War and preserve Gallifrey in a bubble universe and[...]

Davies is doing his version of Steven Moffat's "Impossible Girl" with Ruby Davies and Moffat are friends along with previous showrunner Chris Chibnall and their ideas influence each other's Davies has taken the "Timeless Child" and the "Impossible Girl" threads and injected them with more theme and emotion to give them weight for his new[...]

They're also the topic of the most recent BBC compilation video – so we thought that would be the perfect time to look back at the long-running show's "big bads." If Steven Moffat is to be remembered for one thing, it's creating them for the series They are monsters you need to look at, not[...]

He's known for many projects and accomplishments, including writing and guest-starring on Doctor Who (not to mention writing several Doctor Who novels for the Virgin and BBC Books range and playing The Doctor in fan films back in the 1990s), yet the one thing reporters never stop asking him about is Sherlock, which he co-created and[...]

Steven Moffat certainly relished that about the character – they may be kind and funny, but are also a terrifying Agent of Chaos! The Doctor loves everything but can never fully love their companion The Doctor has many friends but is always lonely. These are the rules of what Russell T Davies now calls The Whoniverse[...]

Now that Steven Moffat is back writing for Doctor Who, fans are speculating about whether River Song will be back.  Alex Kingston certainly hasn't made it a secret that she would love to play the character again But River Song never really went away She's been headlining a River Song series in audio dramas from[...]

Davies brought in doubled down on the knowing comedy in the historical stories, which Steven Moffat was more than happy to lean even deeper into, like Clara (Jenna Colman) fangirling over meeting Robin Hood or the Twelfth Doctor's (Peter Capaldi) funny and true lament about Jesus being whitewashed by the history books. And guess what? Doctor Who[...]

Earlier this month, it was confirmed that ex-showrunner Steven Moffat would be penning an episode of showrunner Russell T Davies (RTD) and stars Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson's (Ruby Sunday) first series of Doctor Who adventures – directed by Julie-Anne Robinson (Bridgerton, Orange Is The New Black, Scandal) Now, we're getting some insights[...]

After months of rumblings that it would happen – despite his claims that he would be "insane" to do so – it was confirmed on Tuesday that former showrunner Steven Moffat has made his return to Doctor Who, penning an episode set to air during showrunner Russell T Davies (RTD) and stars Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor)[...]

Despite past denials, it was confirmed earlier today that former showrunner Steven Moffat will be making his return to Doctor Who, penning an episode set to air during showrunner Russell T Davies and stars Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson's (Ruby Sunday) first series of adventures. Directing the episode is BAFTA, Emmy & Golden Globe[...]

It was back in February 2023 when Steven Moffat shared his thoughts on the BBC, Disney+ & showrunner Russell T Davies's upcoming new seris of Doctor Who – with Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) & Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday) – during the Radio Times Covers Party Making it clear that he knew way more about Davies's[...]

She appeared in another direct-to-DVD unofficial spinoff sequel, 2004's Dæmos Rising, as the lead, still a civilian and working with an ex-UNIT to investigate a village haunting and tangling with an enemy of the Third Doctor. When "Doctor Who" Introduced Kate Stewart 2.0 It was Chris Chibnall who brought Kate to the new series of Doctor[...]

Steven Moffat and his producer and wife Sue Virtue are on the promo circuit for Douglas is Cancelled, his new satirical comedy series about a national TV newsman who runs afoul of Cancel Culture and faces total ruin in both his life and career Yes, it's a comedy  Moffat began writing the limited series back[...]

Steven Moffat made it a point to find a new layer of pathos and theme to explore whenever he wrote a Dalek story Watching Chibnall's New Year's Specials was basically waiting for the day Chibnall finally leaves the show He reduced the Daleks to the equivalent of your horrible, tedious relatives who show up every[...]

David Bradley came closer to recapturing Hartnell's air of mischievousness in Steven Moffat's "Twice Upon Time". "The Two Doctors" was a mini-event in an attempt to boost the series' ratings at a time when the series was starting to slide It marked Patrick Troughton's final appearance as the Time Lord before he passed away two years[...]

Eastenders has murder! MURGAH! MURDAAAAAAH! We haven't watched the show in years, so we didn't even realise Colin Salmon is now a cast member – he played a mysterious doctor character in "Silence in the Library" on Doctor Who, the story that introduced River Song (Alex Kingston) whom writer Steven Moffat only revealed recently was[...]

The first Doctor Who Christmas Special was on Christmas Day in 1965 when the show just stopped the story of the then-ongoing serial "The Dalek's Masterplan" to have William Hartnell and the cast sit down to a Christmas dinner and raise a toast to the audience in an episode called "The Feast of Steven." That[...]