Screenwriter and novelist Terrance Dicks died on August 28 at the age of 84, as announced by his agency on September 5. Dicks was best known as a writer for Doctor Who and as the programme’s script editor from 1968 to 1974. He also adapted many Doctor Who televised stories into novelisations for Target Books. … >
Steven Moffat, who helmed the Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi years on Doctor Who, has announced another project with the BBC. It’s a miniseries called Inside Man, and we’ve got all the info right here…
On November 1, The Mirror reported that the Doctor Who special for Series 11 will air on New Year’s Day of 2019 rather than on Christmas day. “Doctor Who will not have a Christmas Day outing this year for the first time since the reboot in 2005. Instead, 13th Time Lord Jodie Whittaker will have an … >
There has been quite a bit of talk that Chris Chibnall would choose a writers’ room approach to screenwriting for Doctor Who Series 11. This was somewhat belied when Chibnall’s five fellow Series 11 writers were asked by Doctor Who Magazine to employ three words describe their own episodes. The truth lies somewhere in between … >
Matt Lucas is working on a new TV project with Steven Moffat. The pair previously worked together on Doctor Who, when Moffat was the showrunner and Lucas had a recurring role as Nardole, the loveable cyborg with invisible hair that became a companion to Peter Capaldi’s Doctor.
Steven Moffat has opened up a little about his Dracula TV series, which he is writing for the BBC with his Sherlock collaborator and regular Doctor Who contributor Mark Gatiss. With Moffat vacating the Doctor Who showrunner hot-seat and Sherlock seeming to be on pause, fans of The Moff are keen to see what this … >
As part of his interview with Graham Norton on Radio 2 over the weekend, Steven Moffat was discussing his handover over the Doctor Who job to Chris Chibnall. Chibnall is currently overseeing series 11 of the show, that’ll see Jodie Whittaker taking control of the TARDIS. As it turns out, though, there wasn’t a massive … >
Free of Doctor Who commitments, Steven Moffat is now working with Mark Gatiss again on bringing a new TV take on Dracula to the smaller screen. The pair have kept quite quiet about the approach they’re looking to take, but in a new interview on Radio 2 over the weekend, Moffat confirmed that they will … >
Back in 2014, with Doctor Who series 8 coming to an end in November of that year, it looked increasingly as though Jenna Coleman would be quitting the role of the Doctor’s companion, Clara. In fact, she was all set to leave following that year’s Christmas special, Last Christmas, before Coleman reversed her decision and … >
Since series four of Sherlock was screened at the start of 2017, there’s been no sign of more episodes being made, with co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss both suggesting that the show was going to have a longer break than usual. After all, there’s always generally been at least two years between series of … >