Steve Moffat to Become Executive Producer of Doctor Who

Late in May 2008, The BBC Press Office, and several other media sources, broke the news story that Steven Moffat would be taking over as Chief Writer and Executive Producer of the new Doctor Who program when it returns for its fifth season. Moffat has written seven episodes for the series, to date.

Moffat, born in Scotland in 1961, has been a lifelong fan of Doctor Who, which originally began broadcasting the day after President John F. Kennedy was shot in 1963. He had written a Doctor Who story for the Virgin Books series of Doctor Who stories called "Continuity Errors" and wrote the script "Doctor Who and The Curse of the Fatal Death" for the Comic Relief charity telethon in 1999. According to Steven, he has been a fan of the show forever and always wanted to see his name in the credits. His first work in television began at a very young age and he has won many awards for his writing.

Moffat's two-part story for the first new season of the revived Doctor Who was "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances", set in World War II England. He won a Hugo Award for those two episodes and those episodes also introduced the Doctor Who world to Captain Jack Harkness, a Time Agent from the 51^st Century. For season two, Steven wrote "The Girl in the Fireplace" episode and again won a Hugo Award and was nominated for a Nebula Award. Moffat wrote "Blink" for season three and that episode was one of the better episodes, although it was considered a "Doctor-lite" episode due to the fact that the majority of the storyline did not feature the Doctor at all. He also wrote the Children in Need special episode, "Time Crash", a short eight minute episode in which the 5^th Doctor, played by Peter Davison, meets the current 10^th Doctor, played by David Tennant. As the fourth season is now over half-over, Moffat has once again contributed a two-part story, "Silence in the Library" and "The Forest of the Dead", which will be the eighth and ninth broadcast episodes.