Report: Steven Moffat To Return?

[zarius]

Steven Moffat is returning to 'Doctor Who'.



The 61-year-old writer penned scripts for the sci-fi saga under Russell T. Davies' tenure as showrunner when the programme was rebooted in 2005, before taking the reins himself from 2010 to 2017, and now his friend is back in the hotseat, he's set to come back again to write for new Time Lord Ncuti Gatwa.



A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “Russell’s on a mission to make 'Doctor Who' great again, event television not to be missed, which is what it was for many years during his and Steven’s tenures in charge of the show.



“One of the ways he can do that is to ensure he has the best possible people writing for the programme.



“He has nothing but respect for what Steven achieved with the show and was a fan of his vision as showrunner. He approached him about returning in just a writing capacity because he knows Doctor Who inside out and has a brilliant imagination for adventures in space and time.



"He took some convincing but the chance to contribute to a show he has loved since childhood and see it blossom in a new era with a new Doctor was just too much to resist.”



When he previously worked as a writer on the show, Steven penned fan favourite episodes including 'The Empty Child' and 'The Girl in the Fireplace', and introduced the sinister Weeping Angels to the programme in 'Blink'.



As showrunner, he brought in Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and Peter Capaldi as his successor, as well as Karen Gillan and Jenna Coleman as their respective companions.



Steven - who also created 'Sherlock' - was in charge of the show's 50th anniversary special 'The Day of the Doctor', which brought together Matt and David Tennant's Time Lord and introduced the late William Hurt as the War Doctor.



The scriptwriter recently expressed his hope 'Doctor Who' can go on forever and heaped praise on returning showrunner Russell.



He said: “I just want it to go on. I want it to not stop. I want it to, and I know Russell’s going to make use of its infinite adaptability to always be the number one predator in the environment.



"That’s what I want. I want it to go on forever. I believe it can. Like the stories of Robin Hood and King Arthur and Sherlock Holmes. Some things always go on.”

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[UncleDeadly]

“WE DON'T WANT HIM, GO AWAY!”

[rushy]

cue the Imperial March

[UncleDeadly]

Mar 11, 2023 9:40:33 GMT zarius said:

 Russell’s on a mission to make 'Doctor Who' great again

And who's fault is it that it's shit..?

event television not to be missed, which is what it was for many years during his and Steven’s tenures in charge of the show.

My right foot's uncontrollable urge to put itself through the television screen every Saturday night would dispute this...

One of the ways he can do that is to ensure he has the best possible people writing for the programme.

But he's decided to ask Steven instead...

He took some convincing but the chance to contribute to a show he has loved since childhood and see it blossom in a new era with a new Doctor was just too much to resist.

Dracula was a failure and the money was good...

When he previously worked as a writer on the show, Steven penned fan favourite episodes including 'The Empty Child' and 'The Girl in the Fireplace'

"His own run was shit."

The scriptwriter recently expressed his hope 'Doctor Who' can go on forever

Quality is unimportant...

I want it to not stop. I want it to,

Cognitive dissonance.

I know Russell’s going to make use of its infinite adaptability to always be the number one predator in the environment.

It's not about creativity or imagination, it's about "power-patting" the opposition into insensibility...

Some things always go on.

Yes. Like degenerative disorders, for example...

[burrunjor]

Mar 11, 2023 10:52:05 GMT UncleDeadly said:

Mar 11, 2023 9:40:33 GMT zarius said:

And who's fault is it that it's shit..?

event television not to be missed, which is what it was for many years during his and Steven’s tenures in charge of the show.

My right foot's uncontrollable urge to put itself through the television screen every Saturday night would dispute this...

One of the ways he can do that is to ensure he has the best possible people writing for the programme.

But he's decided to ask Steven instead...

He took some convincing but the chance to contribute to a show he has loved since childhood and see it blossom in a new era with a new Doctor was just too much to resist.

Dracula was a failure and the money was good...

When he previously worked as a writer on the show, Steven penned fan favourite episodes including 'The Empty Child' and 'The Girl in the Fireplace'

"His own run was shit."

The scriptwriter recently expressed his hope 'Doctor Who' can go on forever

Quality is unimportant...

I want it to not stop. I want it to,

Cognitive dissonance.

I know Russell’s going to make use of its infinite adaptability to always be the number one predator in the environment.

It's not about creativity or imagination, it's about "power-patting" the opposition into insensibility...

Some things always go on.

Yes. Like degenerative disorders, for example...

Ah you forgot the most important thing. DW is all about change. 

We're both Dinosaurs too afraid to move on, too afraid of change of any kind because we dare to ask that the Doctor be written in character, that the series remains focused on sci fi and adventure, and that there is at least a base level continuity that can allow for things like character development, world building and consistency. 

Meanwhile the people who just want DW to get with the times and embrace diversity have the same main writer from 2005, the same guest writer from 2005. The same lead actor from 2006. The same lead actress from 2008, the same guest stars from 2008 all in a sign of great change. Also after that we are moving into completely uncharted territory for the show. 

A young man who is a friend of RTD playing the Doctor alongside a teenage blonde companion from modern day London. Never seen that before. Maybe her story line can be bad lion or something like that. 

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Would be a surprising decision, but not unthinkable. More than likely this is just a nothing-story though.

[rushy]

I find it humorous how 2008 has become this larger-than-life year looming over all of Doctor Who for the rest of time

[UncleDeadly]

Mar 11, 2023 12:09:52 GMT rushy said:

I find it humorous how 2008 has become this larger-than-life year looming over all of Doctor Who for the rest of time

Comedy and tragedy tread a fine line...

[burrunjor]

Mar 11, 2023 12:34:50 GMT UncleDeadly said:

Mar 11, 2023 12:09:52 GMT rushy said:

I find it humorous how 2008 has become this larger-than-life year looming over all of Doctor Who for the rest of time

Comedy and tragedy tread a fine line...

Ah ah ah. 

Remember that this





Clearly represent a time when DW was taking itself seriously, was proper tv and was no longer an embarrassment to admit to liking, because it got high viewing figures. That had absolutely nothing to do with adverts in cinema's, on the sides of buses and the media all kissing its arse because Russell was in with the bricks of course. Also according to shallow panel show comedians who ALWAYS think for themselves and aren't worthless media whores with no scruples, when DW was like this. 





It was pathetic, laughable, infantile tv. 

That's why we have to copy 2008 forever and still be stuck in the past as much as Al Bundy with his Polk High football shirt. Otherwise people won't think we're Keeeeewwwwwllllll.

[burrunjor]

God having just watched those clips back the difference between old and new who truly is staggering! It's like I Claudius and I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.

I know I have picked two of the best classic who stories to be fair and in all fairness you could say show a clip from a turkey like Timelash opposite say a gem like Midnight.

Still remember though the c*nt panel show wankers still hold up the McCoy era as a byword for shit tv to this day, whilst always kissing the arse of the RTD era, and that Journey's End was the most popular RTD era story at the time, whilst Curse of Fenric was absolutely trashed when it was shown on tv.

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Mar 11, 2023 13:23:25 GMT burrunjor said:

Mar 11, 2023 12:34:50 GMT UncleDeadly said:

Comedy and tragedy tread a fine line...

Ah ah ah. 

Remember that this





Clearly represent a time when DW was taking itself seriously, was proper tv and was no longer an embarrassment to admit to liking, because it got high viewing figures. That had absolutely nothing to do with adverts in cinema's, on the sides of buses and the media all kissing its arse because Russell was in with the bricks of course. Also according to shallow panel show comedians who ALWAYS think for themselves and aren't worthless media whores with no scruples, when DW was like this. 





It was pathetic, laughable, infantile tv. 

That's why we have to copy 2008 forever and still be stuck in the past as much as Al Bundy with his Polk High football shirt. Otherwise people won't think we're Keeeeewwwwwllllll.

Man, this really does highlight just how rich and well written those McCoy stories are.  The two greatest stories for me.

 

[Spark Doll King]

I'd be lying If I said I was surprised, I'll bet ol Chibbs will get to pen a few episodes to.

I've repeatedly said that Nuwho is trapped in the gravitational pull of the Tennent era, and with ever passing series I get proven correct again and again.

Never to my knowledge has an ongoing product, film or literature, that was not tied to a singular author been so creatively bankrupt as to spend years trying to recapture its "glory-days" at the expense of the natural evolution of the show and then handed back to the exact same people from "those days" after this long. f*ck Me JNT was doing everything he could to get off the f*cking classic show and did his best despite that. The c*nts just won't f*ck off will they? You'd think they had invented the show for how tight a grip they keep on it.

Honestly I think Nuwho is done until Davison, Moffat, Chibbs and Briggs all finally get f*cked off or die. The show simple cannot evolve while this little cabal of "Elite Doctor Who Fans" have got their claws in it.

[iank]

Well I'd rather Moffat than RTD.
I don't really care either way though.

[Monster X]

Horribly predictable.

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Show needs fresh blood. Look what happened in the McCoy era. Every writer from that era had never written for the show before with the exception of Pip and Jane. You had a bunch of writers who all had something to prove, were angry at the government and teeming with enthusiasm. Moffat was a fine writer, but he's got very little to prove now.