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It's not even exactly TARDIS Blue is it? That's a designation invented by Steven Moffat during his time as showrunner on Doctor Who He certainly knew what he was talking about. "Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour" courtesy of the BBC Otherwise, some of the colouring reminds us of the colours in the original 1960s Star Trek[...]

Davies, Steven Moffat, and Chris Chibnall made sure of that. "Doctor Who": BBC In the old show, regenerations were filmed by just placing the actors who played the Doctors in the same position as they lay on the floor and using simple video editing to cross-fade and some chromakey effects to show the transformation from the dying[...]

BBC America, which co-financed the series from Series Five (Matt Smith and Steven Moffat's first season) to Series Thirteen (Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall's final season), would live-broadcast the show on the same day but in the evening in the US, hours after the UK premiere before going to streaming Disney+ co-financing and licensing the[...]

He leaves the Monk a note declaring, "Perhaps when you learn your lesson, one day I'll come back and release you." (Steven Moffat used that idea and had the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) trapped inside a shrinking TARDIS decades later.)  The Monk only came back once in the series, during "The Daleks' Masterplan," though he[...]

Steven Moffat did manage to remind us that they could be really creepy, so that's a plus for storytelling, especially in Doctor Who. The series in the 1970s and 1980s tended to depict the Cybermen as two-dimensional villains, but that was the style of genre TV writing in those days It helped that the Cybermen had[...]

The fifth season of Doctor Who is a season of many firsts: it was new showrunner Steven Moffat's first season It was Matt Smith's first season as the Eleventh Doctor It was Karen Gillan's first season as a companion and both her and Smith's first starring roles leading a TV series It launched their careers,[...]

But another reason to check it out – and a huge reason to check out the clip below – is that the event included "The Three Showrunners" – Steven Moffat, Chris Chibnall & Russell T Davies. Image: BBC Screencap In the following clip, the trio who crafted the long-running show's return and (hopefully) bright future discuss how[...]

In his first series, the newly-regenerated Doctor questions whether he's a good man after a previous lifetime fighting a war and admitting that he has killed. "I am a Good Man" is a variation and reconfiguration of "A Good Man?", heard near the end of the Twelfth Doctor's life and story in his and showrunner Steven[...]

Michael Wisher gave the character an epic, Shakespearean dimension in his portrayal as the first actor to play Davros. "Doctor Who": BBC In "The Magician's Apprentice," Steven Moffat writes about an older, dying Davros having a heart-to-heart with the Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) as two old enemies are different sides of the same coin who understand each[...]

Davies, Steven Moffat & Chris Chibnall having a showrunner reunion during Doctor Who @ 60: A Musical Celebration Held at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Singers, conducted by Alastair King), the concert celebrated the musical history of the long-running series and featured[...]

It also created a very cool moment that RTD captured & shared on Instagram. Image: BBC With the caption, "The three showrunners!" RTD posted an image of himself with Steven Moffat and Chris Chibnall – and with it being the season of the show's 60th anniversary, it just feels right Here's a look at the post from[...]

Davies, Steven Moffat, and Chris Chibnall know that any flaws in the storytelling can be forgiven if they can deliver an emotional whopper, and Davies and Moffat are masters at that They dialed up the love between Doctors and Companions to an elevated level Hugs all round! It's all about the hugs now Davies opened[...]

The BBC has released a compilation video of Doctor Who Series 8, Peter Capaldi's first and Steven Moffat's fourth, and the most experimental and flawed of Moffat's time as showrunner This was the first time the series broke the modern era's mode of casting a younger Doctor and back to the tradition of an older,[...]

Davies, Steven Moffat, and Chris Chibnall have leaned into this theme more deeply than in the older version of the show The Ninth Doctor sacrifices himself to save Rose (Billie Piper) The Tenth Doctor falters with a moment's hesitation before he sacrifices himself to save Wilf (Bernard Cribbins) The Eleventh Doctor gives up the last[...]

This was Steven Moffat's fifth season as showrunner and Peter Capaldi's second as The Doctor it's also Moffat's best and most thematically consistent season. "Doctor Who Series 9" key art, BBC Unlike Doctor Who Series 6, Moffat's second season as showrunner, and Matt Smith's second season as The Doctor, Series 9 feels more confident and less frantic[...]

So what does all of this have to do with Steven Moffat? Absolutely nothing In fact, Moffat's made it clear that he's looking forward to seeing what's ahead and that the franchise should run forever – but it doesn't need returning to do it So when Moffat posts an image on Instagram in front of[...]

Davies and Steven Moffat in the modern era It was Neil Gaiman, under Moffat's watch as showrunner, who got to write as official canon that the TARDIS was female and loved The Doctor, that she exists through all of Space and Time and can see it all, and she always took them where they needed[...]

This was Steven Moffat's second season as showrunner, with Matt Smith, Karen Gillen & Arthur Darvill as the Eleventh Doctor and companions You could say it was in this season that the show's flaws first started manifesting, the seams starting to show. "Doctor Who Series Six" key art, BBC Series 6 was also the start of Doctor Who's[...]

Davies and Steven Moffat, the sonic screwdriver has become a deus ex machina It can do virtually everything Until it can't for the plot This is the problem with made-up stuff in Science Fiction and Fantasy, where the all-powerful thing suddenly doesn't work because of reasons Until then, it can unlock doors, scan for signals,[...]

We look back at Jodie Whittaker's second season of Doctor Who, undercut by unrealised potential & unfulfilled promises under Chris Chibnall.

Davies and Steven Moffat just loved to hit fans in the feels, which just ensured they loved the show more than ever But the surprising thing about the compilation is they highlight a long-running theme at the heart of the show: the need to be remembered. Image: BBC Loss and remembrance Remembrance of loved ones gone[...]

Davies and previous showrunner & writer Steven Moffat But that's just where things are at this point, with the end of this year set to ignite a 60th-anniversary celebration that will catapult the long-running series into a new series of adventures featuring new Doctor Ncuti Gatwa and companion Millie Gibson (Ruby Sunday) Here's a look[...]

Steven Moffat introduced River Song (Alex Kingston) to make the Doctor an overtly romantic figure at last. It was really Chris Chibnall who pushed the Doctor's romance with a companion in a surprising and groundbreaking way – the first LGBTQ romance the Doctor had with her companion Jodie Whittaker pushed for "Thasmin" when she saw what[...]

Davies, Steven Moffat, and Chris Chibnall were all very hip to the metaphors of the monsters they wrote, more knowingly than the classic show, though the writers then knew it too The modern show was more postmodern about it all. Thus, the victims who turned into gas mask monsters during the Blitz in World War II[...]

Steven Moffat understood that but started to introduce complexity and complication in it Arguably, Moffat is "The Master of Timey Wimey" plotting Chris Chibnall… is not. Good Timey Wimey on Doctor Who Davies' first timey wimey story was in "Father's Day" where the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) takes Rose (Billie Piper) back in time to meet her[...]

Steven Moffat and Chris Chibnall have continued that new tradition It's kind of Freudian in how regeneration looks like a massive orgasm When the Doctor stretches out their arms at regeneration, they also look Christ-like, a figure of resurrection on the cross, which is interesting considering Davies and Moffat are atheists Granted, they are Church[...]

So what better time than now to check in with Steven Moffat, who had some thoughts to share about the long-running sci-fi/adventure series during the Radio Times Covers Party? Image: BBC Once again rubbing it in our faces that he knows more about Davies's plans than we ever will, Moffat did share his feeling that Davies is[...]

Steven Moffat was the showrunner who pushed the Doctor as a children's character more than any of his predecessors. The Prickly Madman The Twelfth Doctor had the most chaotic first moment in Peter Capaldi's entrance Moffat wrote him a near-Shakespearean opening monologue of incoherent madness just for Capaldi to show his acting chops and emotional range. Jodie Whittaker's[...]

While we await a winner in Bleeding Cool's betting pool to see if we get a new episode of Steven Moffat's Sherlock or a new season of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal, Moffat has some thoughts to share on the prospects of those who wagered their life's savings on the Benedict Cumberbatch & Martin Freeman-starrer to see[...]

Davies and Steven Moffat would use when they ran the show Ace didn't just get taken hostage and scream when monsters showed up She was bolshy, and she was politically correct – anti-nuke, anti-racist, but specific She liked to blow things up She would go on to beat up a Dalek with a baseball bat[...]