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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[...]

Davies wrote six, Steven Moffat wrote eight, and Chris Chibnall wrote none The Christmas specials could be hit-or-miss, but Davies and Moffat always strived to make them feel special and unique, set apart from the regular series They always combined joy with heartache in their stories Davies' specials were all original stories that featured significant[...]

Davies and Steven Moffat, the Doctor burned with rage against social injustice and cruelty, yet under Chibnall, she might defeat an invading alien army like the Sontarans but did nothing but huff at the continued moral cruelty and evil of the human leaders and leave them in place During "Flux," the Doctor finally confronts her[...]

The tradition has been continued by Steven Moffat and Chris Chibnall ever since, and now Davies is back writing them He is especially adept at dropping teasers for the upcoming return of Doctor Who So in the spirit of the holidays, he's written a Christmas countdown, and here are some takeaways. David Tennant in "Doctor Who",[...]

There's the moment the Tenth Doctor (Matt Smith) lost Amy Pond (Karen Gillen) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) – though it's obvious he (and showrunner Steven Moffat) cared more about Amy There's the Eleventh Doctor's (Peter Capaldi) parting from Clara (Jenna Coleman) at the end of their mutually destructive co-dependent relationship, where Moffat explored how flawed[...]

"Fans can look forward to plenty more twists and turns in this remarkable tale from first-time series creator Tom Moran and welcoming back our immensely talented cast, led by Jessica Raine and Peter Capaldi." The series is produced by Hartswood Films, known for the other crime series Inside Man, which features Stanley Tucci as another Hannibal[...]

Inside Man is Steven Moffat's first original story for television for over a decade, a noir suspense thriller about murder Every second British drama is a crime show about murder, but what happens when an inveterate cleverclogs like Moffat decides to try his hand at it? The result is something that you think should be[...]

He has a point. The TwelfthDoctor, in his three seasons under showrunner Steven Moffat, ran the full gamut of what a Doctor could go through Each of his seasons was different He was uncertain, unsocialized, and prickly in his first season He was playing out a kind of midlife crisis in a co-dependent and increasingly dysfunctional[...]

Chibnall's flaws and limits as a screenwriter are well-known by now, but we should also talk about what he got right. Doctor Who: Flux, image credit: BBC Chibnall Cast the First Female LGBTQ Doctor Who Chibnall is the one who pulled the trigger and cast the first canonical female Doctor in Jodie Whittaker (Joanna Lumley in Steven Moffat's[...]

So when we start discussing the future of the long-running BBC series, we have to bring up ex-head writer & executive producer Steven Moffat, who has been out there singing Davies' praises since the news was first announced So with that said, should fans expect a potential Moffat return to the role in the future?[...]

Prime Video just released a trailer for The Devil's Hour, a twisty crime thriller written by Tom Moran and produced by Steven Moffat's production company Hartswood Films Wait – doesn't this look more like a stealth Doctor Who story? Have you ever wondered what it would look like if Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor cosplayed as[...]

Steven Moffat's latest mystery series, Inside Man, which stars David Tennant, Stanley Tucci, Lydia West, and Dolly Wells, begins next week on BBC One The BBC just released a teaser trailer. "Inside Man" key art: BBC The official synopsis for Inside Man states: "In the US, a prisoner on death row (Tucci) is seeking atonement as he[...]