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Steven Moffat's TV adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's bestselling novel The Time Traveler's Wife is an awkward thing, an artifact that may have come too late The melancholy love story is about a woman (Rose Leslie) married to a man (Theo James) unstuck in Time who keeps disappearing and she only meets different versions of him[...]

When Steven Moffat took over from Davies, he brought back Gallifrey. Chris Chibnall turned the show's continuity into a crutch to cover up the lack of ideas or surprises Doctor Who has become old and creaky again He just had to make Gallifrey part of everything again Gallifrey is a big problem that hardcore fans refuse[...]

Last month brought the release of the first official teaser for EP/Writer Steven Moffat & EP/Director David Nutter's six-episode series take on Audrey Niffenegger's novel ahead of its May 15th premiere (also streaming on HBO Max) Now, viewers are getting a look at the official trailer for HBO's The Time Traveler's Wife[...]

Davies and Steven Moffat Not many people have been able to put their finger on exactly what was wrong Sexists, racists, and homophobes have blamed it on the casting of Jodie Whittaker as a female Doctor, more characters of colour in the main cast, more LGBTQ characters, and too much "woke" We would argue that[...]

The BBC finally released a compilation video of series 5 of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat's debut season as showrunner Overall, it's a triumphant start, continuing the success and popularity of his predecessor Russell T Davies' run and putting his own stamp on it Moffat's first season demonstrated how the same show can become a completely[...]

One person who's been singing Davies' praises regarding his plans for what's to come is veteran Doctor Who showrunner & writer Steven Moffat, who had more to add about the show's future and Moffat's involvement with it Now how you should feel about it depends on your feelings about Moffat's run Curious? Read on… Former "Doctor[...]

Former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has two more new shows in the works, reuniting him with former doctors David Tennant and Peter Capaldi One is Inside Man, an upcoming BBC crime thriller with Tennant, Stanley Tucci, Lydia West, and Dolly Wells The other is The Devil's Hour, a thriller starring Capaldi. Image: BBC/BBC America The BBC[...]

Davies and Steven Moffat's runs The Seventh Doctor already began to hint at the darker, more mysterious personality he would show in the next two seasons when he uses his bumbling façade to subtly charm his way into the teenage gangs' good graces and manipulate them into declaring a truce and co-operate with each other[...]

Former showrunner/writer Steven Moffat and writer Mark Gatiss spoke with RadioTimes.com at the Radio Times Covers Party, having nothing but good things to say about the move and how it reflects well on the long-running series. Image: BBC Moffat on How Davies' Decision Is Proof of Show's "Vibrancy": "Ach, they're dragging him out of the archives!" joked Moffat[...]

It's showrunner Steven Moffat and the Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi's penultimate season, and companion Jenna Coleman's final season The video reveals that the season featured some of the show's finest Science Fiction stories and revealed Moffat's grandest themes in the show. "Doctor Who Series 9" image: BBC By his second season, Capaldi was starting to settle into[...]

A month after a set of preview images for EP/Writer Steven Moffat & EP/Director David Nutter's six-episode series take on Audrey Niffenegger's novel was released during HBO and HBO Max's Television Critics Association (TCA) winter press event, viewers are getting a chance to see some of those images come to life with the release of the[...]

Time for another compilation video of Doctor Who, this time of Season 6 of the new show, Steven Moffat & the Eleventh Doctor's (Matt Smith) second season This was the season when the show was at its peak of worldwide popularity This was the season where BBC America began to get involved with the show[...]

With the help of a new BBC Doctor Who compilation video, we look back at Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi's first season as the Doctor.

Her creator and showrunner Steven Moffat certainly made her go through more changes and angst-inducing situations than any other companion on the new show's run She starts her second season happily married to Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) and the Doctor regards the Ponds as a single unit, though with Amy the dominant – and domineering[...]

Showrunner Steven Moffat just could not resist introducing a sexual undertone to her relationship with The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) Chris Chibnall brought back The Master, this time played by Sacha Dhawan, one of the best decisions made on his run Dhawan played The Master with a combination of spite and hurt and had great chemistry[...]

This week, it's a supercut of the 10th series of the new show, the Twelfth Doctor's (Peter Capaldi) final series. Image: BBC This was the Twelfth Doctor's best season, a "return to basics" approach that showrunner Steven Moffat took after the convoluted and flawed previous two series Season 8, was a failed experiment where Moffat made the[...]

The Time Traveler's Wife, Steven Moffat's TV adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's bestselling novel for HBO, will premiere this Spring Moffat talked about the upcoming show at HBO's virtual TCA press day "We're not messing around with the stuff that really matters," Steven Moffat, executive producer of HBO's upcoming series adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's book The Time Traveler's Wife,[...]

"Robot" also leans way into the slapstick humour of the 4th Doctor, introducing his offer of jelly babies to everyone and his use of the sonic screwdriver, the latter Davies pushed during his run and which subsequent showrunners like Steven Moffat and Chris Chibnall leaned on too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlsv9gh2uDYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Robot:[...]

But not fanciful enough to stop plenty of people from reporting it as gospel. But… what if? Just for a second, what if this whipped up nonsense were true? How would it fit? Well, in the fiftieth-anniversary episode of Doctor Who, The Day Of The Doctor written by Steven Moffat, we saw The Eleventh Doctor played[...]

Davies and Steven Moffat adapting their own scripts into novels This week, the BBC announced 5 new Target novelisations to be published on July 14th, 2022 This includes two stories in the "Key to Time" season-long arc from 1978 featuring the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and the First Romana (Mary Tamm). Doctor Who Target novels list,[...]

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song, the second Twelfth Doctor Christmas special that Steven Moffat produced, is his funniest Christmas special, though it has very little to do with Christmas itself other than it's set at that time and was broadcast on Christmas Day It's a hoot and finds Moffat in Screwball Comedy mode[...]

This time, we're going in the opposite direction by looking at what may be Steven Moffat's best Doctor Who Christmas special, Last Christmas.

Davies brought them back to make them special and his successor Steven Moffat continued the tradition With the big day coming up, the BBC has cut together 21-minute videos of some of them This one is of Moffat's first special, "A Christmas Carol" from 2010. "Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol" still, BBC Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol[...]

So who better to get a clue or two from than Steven Moffat, who offered a little insight into what Davies will be bringing to the table once his run gets rolling. Image: Screencap During a Q&A session during a sit-down with the Oxford Union Society, the Emmy and BAFTA award-winner covered a lot of great ground[...]

You just wish she had scripts by Davies or Steven Moffat instead of Chris Chibnall This finale gives Whittaker's Doctor more to say and do than her entire previous run of episodes put together It's like Chibnall finally remembered a show called "Doctor Who" should actually be about the Doctor. A whole species of Lupar, those[...]

Showrunner Steven Moffat succeeded when he created the Weeping Angels, one of the scariest monsters the show ever had, and the most popular from the new era of the show. A Weeping Angel with River Song (Alex Kingston) in "Doctor Who", BBC The Weeping Angels were inspired by Moffat seeing statues of angels at graveyards and churches[...]

Inside Man is the new crime miniseries written by former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat Since it's Moffat, it's highly anticipated since you can always expect a complex and ambitious tale from his pen We'll leave star – and potential next Doctor Who or companion – Lydia West to talk about the story. Lydia West with[...]

Davies and Steven Moffat Davies gave the Sontarans their most epic story so far: a 2-parter that showed them plotting to destroy the Earth's atmosphere before they took it over Davies' spinoff The Sara Jane Smith Adventures featured a surviving Sontaran from that battle facing Sara Jane and the kids, and still got his ass[...]

Unfortunately, former showrunner Steven Moffat ended up spoiling the news over the summer in all of the excitement about the long-running series' return And now? He wants all of you to know that he's sorry via video. Image: BBC At the end of July, viewers learned that Moffat's 2007 creations would be "weeping" their way back into the[...]

Inside Man is the new 4-part thriller from former Doctor Who showrunner and Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat that's coming to BBC One in the UK and Netflix worldwide next year It stars David Tennant as a vicar in a small English town, Stanley Tucci as a US inmate on death row who's the "inside man"[...]