Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat says he “slightly fumbled” the launch of last year’s season. Season 9 continued the previous season‘s line-up of Peter Capaldi as the Doctor and Jenna Coleman as companion Clara Oswald. The launch trailer concluded with the line: “Same old, same old, just the Doctor and Clara Oswald in the TARDIS.” It was the first … >
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has cleared up a few things regarding the first part of last year’s season finale. Written by Moffat, ‘Heaven Sent’ was the show’s first ‘one-hander’ episode and featured (almost) only Peter Capaldi’s Doctor. > Buy the complete Season 9 box set on DVD on Amazon. > Buy the complete Season 9 box … >
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat says it’s unlikely that the Doctor’s name will ever be established in the show as fans would just ignore it. Responding to a fan’s question in Issue 496 of Doctor Who Magazine about the identity of the mystery woman in the barn in ‘Hell Bent’, Moffat went on to say: “A few years ago I … >
The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine has revealed that Steven Moffat will still be Doctor Who showrunner for 2017’s Christmas special. When it was announced earlier this year that Moffat would be leaving, it was unclear exactly which episode would be his swansong, with the press release merely stating that Season 10 would be his last. It was expected that … >
The new season of Doctor Who won’t begin filming until this summer. It was previously believed that Season 10 would start to film this month, but the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine confirms that the shoot isn’t due to commence until July. The delay is presumably to wait until filming on the new season of Sherlock is completed. Season 4’s … >
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat has revealed that the new season will feature fewer two-part stories than last year. 2015’s season was made up almost entirely of multi-part stories and ‘paired’ episodes, with the exception of Mark Gatiss’s ‘Sleep No More’. > Buy the complete Doctor Who Season 9 box set on DVD on Amazon. > Buy the complete Doctor Who … >
Steven Moffat has responded to a fan’s query about the identity of the mystery lady in the barn in last year’s Doctor Who finale. A scene set on the Doctor’s home planet of Gallifrey, in the barn that was first seen in ‘The Day of the Doctor’, features an elderly lady finding Peter Capaldi’s Doctor and warning that … >
Production of the new season of Doctor Who will run for ten months when the shoot finally begins. A new post on the BBC’s Careers website advertises the position of a Floor Runner for Doctor Who at BBC Cymru Wales “on a 10 month fixed term contract / attachment.” Season 10 will see Pearl Mackie join Peter Capaldi’s Doctor as new … >
Lionsgate has started developing a big screen version of the BBC’s Jekyll. Written by Doctor Who showrunner and Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat, the six-part series aired on BBC One in 2007. A sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde novella, Jekyll starred James Nesbitt (The Missing) as a modern-day descendant of Dr. Jekyll. > Buy Jekyll … >
The official synopsis for the new season of Sherlock has confirmed the arrival of an expected addition to the cast. The first of three new feature-length episodes began filming earlier this week, directed by Rachel Talalay (Doctor Who, The Flash). The BBC’s synopsis reads: “[Season 4] begins with the nation’s favourite detective, the mercurial Sherlock … >