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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[...]

And yet, even though he has no intentions of returning to the series (though offering his good friend Davies tons of support for what's in store), we can't help but think of Steven Moffat whenever buzz about the BBC series grows So it was perfect timing that The Guardian had a chance to speak with[...]

Davies' first season, written by Robert Shearman, slaughtering a whole army, the 11th Doctor (Peter Capaldi), Missy (Michelle Gomez) and Clara (Jenna Coleman) in the craftiest fake-out and stand-off against the whole Dalek army from Steven Moffat's run, and Rory's (Arthur Darvill) narrow escape from an awakening army of Daleks… which isn't really any extermination[...]

Davies and Steven Moffat's runs so beloved There was the hope that Chibnall and Whittaker's third and final season would finally do that Unfortunately, we got Flux instead Like acid reflux. Whittaker and Gil have had good chemistry and are often more fun in the goofy behind-the-scenes videos for the Doctor Who channel than they ever[...]

The Guardian posted details on a bunch of upcoming TV shows, including Inside Man, a new Steven Moffat BBC drama starring stating that it was "a playful, twist-packed puzzle of a thriller, as you might expect from creator Steven Moffat What's the connection between a small-town vicar (David Tennant), a maths teacher (Dolly Wells) trapped[...]

There should have been a show about the two of them as bickering buddies traveling Time and Space righting wrongs. "Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time" image: BBC America Steven Moffat got to write the ultimate fanfic crossover in "Day of the Doctor," which had the Eleventh (Matt Smith) meet up with the Tenth (David Tennant) and the War[...]

Showrunner Steven Moffat's best and worst are both on display here He works hard to give us big, crazy, unexpected Science Fiction ideas There's an embarrassment of riches with a planet-sized god-like alien that eats memories, a creature in a nightmare dimension, Ice Warriors on a Soviet nuclear submarine, there's an odd recurrence of Victorian-era[...]

"Revenge of the Cybermen" was a so-so, generic Doctor Who story, but it paved the way for better stories to come in the following decades.

Missy's appearance on Doctor Who during Steven Moffat's run effectively made the Rani redundant, since she was just an evil female Time Lord Michelle Gomez injected madness and whimsy to Missy where the Rani was just a mean scientist, played with gleeful pantomime camp by the late Kate O'Mara Some baddies are just too dull[...]

Now, Steven Moffat will have one less thing standing in his way if he's considering writing for Doctor Who again That's because HBO confirmed this afternoon that his and director David Nutter's series adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's novel The Time Traveler's Wife would not be returning for a second season. "The Time Traveler's Wife" Image: HBO "Though[...]

Though Davies was showrunner at the time, Steven Moffat was commissioned to write it This means Moffat wrote all the crossovers of the modern era before Chibnall became showrunner "Time Crash" is meta and weird in ways beyond the story: Peter Davison is the father of Georgia Moffat, who played the Tenth Doctor's daughter in one[...]

Showrunner Steven Moffat always had more than one season planned, and the season that just ended only covered the first third of Audrey Niffenegger's source novel. "The Time Traveler's Wife" Image: HBO The first and currently only season of The Time Traveler's Wife ended with Henry (Theo James) and Clare's (Rose Leslie) wedding to give viewers the[...]

Former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat adapted the novel by Audrey Niffenegger, expanding it to explore the full potential of its story and themes It's meant to be poignant and romantic, but it's unintentionally turned out to be existential horror. "The Time Traveler's Wife" Image: HBO Moffat turned the adaptation into a visit to many of his[...]

While Russell T Davies was the showrunner, and to maybe a slightly lesser extent when Steven Moffat was at the helm, the magazine was a major conduit between the Doctor Who production team and the most devoted of fans, with Davies and Moffat regularly writing for the publication There was also a regular supply of[...]

It may even be Steven Moffat getting out the differences in experience he has had working with HBO in the USA and the BBC in Britain But at its heart, it is a story of the human condition, the choices we make, and their consequences, good and bad Elsa is a popular, positive one, if[...]

One of these days, I've got a whole season worked out, so I'm sure it'll happen eventually." Today, Grant Morrison posted far more details to their Substack, including their thoughts on the current era, Jodie Whitaker, Peter Calapdi, Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies, but also what happened with their pitching, and when it went down[...]

The Unfriend is former Doctor Who and current The Time Traveler's Wife showrunner Steven Moffat's first stage play It is a raucous satire about an English couple who end up with an unwelcome American houseguest who won't leave, to the point where they fear for their lives. This is a review of the script of Steven[...]

It may be the adaptation of a bestselling novel, but showrunner Steven Moffat has been revisiting his greatest hits Audrey Niffenegger's bestselling novel was supposed to be a romantic tragedy about a love story out of synch It's been a huge influence on Moffat and he riffed on it throughout his run on Doctor Who. "The[...]

It covers Steven Moffat's third season as showrunner and the half of Matt Smith's final run as the Eleventh Doctor It also marks Karen Gillen and Arthur Darvill's time on the show as Amy and Rory Pond And… it's a mess. "Doctor Who Series 7" key art: BBC America You could say this season was when Doctor[...]