Steven Moffat is a Scottish television writer and producer.Moffat's first television work was the teen drama series Press Gang. His first sitcom, Joking Apart, was inspired by the breakdown of his first marriage; conversely, his later sitcom Coupling was based upon the development of his relationship with television producer Sue Vertue. In between the two relationship-centred shows, he wrote Chalk, a sitcom set in a comprehensive school inspired by his own experience as an English teacher.A lifelong fan of Doctor Who, Moffat has written several episodes of the revived version and succeeded Russell T Davies as lead writer and executive producer when production of its fifth series began in 2009.[3] In 2008 he scripted the first The Adventures of Tintin film for director Steven Spielberg. He co-created Sherlock, an adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories.Many of the programmes upon which he has worked have won awards, including BAFTAs and Hugo Awards for some of his episodes of Doctor Who.
He graduated with a degree in English from the University of Glasgow and worked as a teacher before becoming a successful writer.
He is the son of Bill Moffat and the son-in-law of Beryl Vertue , who was the executive producer of "Coupling" . His children are called Louis and Joshua.
The original "Doctor Who" series inspired Moffat to become a writer.
Like David Tennant , he is a huge fan of Peter Davison s Fifth Doctor. Moffat was one of the principal interviewees for the Davison-era "Doctor Who" documentary Come in Number Five . He also stated in an interview in 1995 that he thought Davison was the best actor to have played the Doctor.
He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2015 Queens Birthday Honours List for his services to Drama. He is a television writer in London, England.
He is so ashamed of his sitcom "Chalk" that he refuses to even name the series, joking that he might get attacked in the street. The series earned the dubious distinction of being named by the British newspaper Metro as one of the "10 sitcoms even worse than "The Wright Way" (2013/I) ".
During production of the second series of "Press Gang" , Moffat was experiencing an unhappy personal life as a result of the break-up of his first marriage. The producer was secretly phoning his friends at home to check on his state. His wifes new lover was represented in "Press Gang" {The Big Finish? (#2.13)} by the character Brian Magboy (Simon Schatzberger ), a name inspired by Brian: Maggies boy. Moffat brought in the character so that all sorts of unfortunate things would happen to him, such as having a typewriter dropped on his foot.
He was originally going to write "Doctor Who" {The Crimson Horror (#7.12)} , but he realized he would not be able to and called his "old friend" Mark Gatiss.
In 1999, he was one of the writers asked to write "Doctor Who" audio plays for Big Finish. He was only interested in writing for the Eighth Doctor Paul McGann , who hadnt signed on yet, so he dropped out. He has since written a short story for one of Big Finishs Bernice Summerfield anthologies.
He was asked to write "Doctor Who" {Daleks in Manhattan } / "Doctor Who" {Evolution of the Daleks (#3.5)} , but he was busy with Jekyll . When it became clear that he wouldnt be able to write the Dalek two-parter, he volunteered to write the Doctor-lite episode of the season. That turned out to be "Doctor Who" {Blink (#3.10)} , one of the most beloved episodes of "Doctor Who" .
He named "Doctor Who" {The Beast Below (#5.2)} as his least favourite "Doctor Who" he wrote, calling it "a bit of a mess".
Literally, the whole family sits down to watch,"Doctor Who" (2005) : mum and dad, granddad, the two kids. . .
People love talking about the past, because they know they survived it.
My memory of "Doctor Who" (1963) is based on bad television that,I enjoyed at the time.
You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.
Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me. . . It was an accident.
Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.
Heroes are important. Heroes tell us who we want to be but when they made this particular hero they didn’t give him a gun, they gave him a screwdriver to fix things. They didn’t give him a tank or a warship or an X-Wing, they gave him a call box from which you can call for help and they didn’t give him a superpower or a heat-ray, they gave him an extra heart. And that’s extraordinary. There will never come a time when we don’t need a hero like the doctor.
There are two events in everybody’s life that nobody remembers. Two moments experienced by every living thing. Yet no one remembers anything about them. Nobody remembers being born and nobody remembers dying. Is that why we always stare into the eye sockets of a skull? Because we’re asking, “What was it like?” “Does it hurt?” “Are you still scared?”.
