Official: Moffat to take over from RTD

Gavin W

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/20/bbc.television2

EDIT:BBC press release issued too

The Master

Pleased I am

Stark

Woohoo

aidan_walsh

Well, thats my reason to drink in celebration this weekend.

ixoy

By the giddy aunts of Mondas - this is great news Finally someone who seems content with writing intelligently in charge and not trying to sell the latest item of merchandise admidst farting aliens...

Doctor DooM

YAY!!!! Blinky Sally Sparrow goodness!!! Doctor Dancing not Daughtering!!! Lots of exclamations!!!! Not as many "Whats?!?!?"

aidan_walsh

SDooM wrote: »

YAY!!!! Blinky Sally Sparrow goodness!!! Doctor Dancing not Daughtering!!! Lots of exclamations!!!! Not as many "Whats?!?!?"

And less of the London City Marathon!!!

deRanged

excellent news.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

when they say doctor who returns in 2010, they mean 2009 right?


right?

The Master

Mordances with wolves wrote: »

when they say doctor who returns in 2010, they mean 2009 right?


right?

No , next year there will be just 3 special episodes
(to facilitate David Tennants outside acting projects)
and a full series 5 in 2010

pixelburp

Holy sh*tballs, I knew there were rumours, but I didn't honestly think this would happen. This is GREAT news; I really hope Moffat brings a little more maturity & sense to the show after what looks like this extremely wobbly 4th series. His 2 parter is surely going to be even more keenly watched than before.

Go on the Moff!

drinks are on me!

thusspakeblixa

This has made my day, nay, my year
:D:D

Goodshape

Nice one.

pixelburp

The key will be those 3 specials; Moffat has a chance to really stamp his vision for the show (coupled with the BBC execs own demands) with those three adventures. I'd love to hear / read some of his thoughts for the show's future (plotlines, themes that sort of thing)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

according to something i was reading on a website i'm probably not allowed link to here, RTD will be handling the specials of 2009 with moffat taking over in 2010.

so... that might not be great.

Stark

That's what I heard as well.

From the Guardian article:

Davies and Julie Gardner, the BBC Wales head of drama, have worked on the fourth series of Doctor Who and are working on four specials for broadcast in 2009.

Goodshape

Yeah, I read that too.

Timely of them to announce this now though -- there's no Who this week (Eurovision is on) but the week after is the first of a Moffat two-parter, 'Silence in the Library'.

nothing

I am so happy about this. I saw a little news on BBC earlier and heard that RTD was quitting... Oh happy days!

Mahatma coat

This calls for a



Happydance !!!

Briony Noh

Small reservations - I remember some of the stuff he did on Bugs and while he and Gallagher were the two best writers on that series, he was always Number 2. However, years have passed and Blink was superb - can we expect superb from him every time he puts pen to paper?

On the other hand, he's replacing RTD and that is just the best news in the entire Universe of Space and Time, just as long as he doesn't have to deal with leftover garbage that ties him down into forllowing the same old tiresome path.

Second best news I'd love to hear next was that he, or someone with as much insight and intelligence, had been given a free hand to overhaul that abysmal, atrocious, saddening Torchwood.

Stark

Briony Noh wrote: »

Second best news I'd love to hear next was that he, or someone with as much insight and intelligence, had been given a free hand to overhaul that abysmal, atrocious, saddening Torchwood.

To be fair, I really enjoyed the second season of Torchwood.

pixelburp

Stark wrote: »

To be fair, I really enjoyed the second season of Torchwood.

Aye, was about to say the same thing. I hated season1 of Torchwood, but the second season really picked itself up with better writing, character arcs et al

Doctor DooM

Briony Noh wrote: »

Small reservations - I remember some of the stuff he did on Bugs and while he and Gallagher were the two best writers on that series, he was always Number 2. However, years have passed and Blink was superb - can we expect superb from him every time he puts pen to paper?

On the other hand, he's replacing RTD and that is just the best news in the entire Universe of Space and Time, just as long as he doesn't have to deal with leftover garbage that ties him down into forllowing the same old tiresome path.

Second best news I'd love to hear next was that he, or someone with as much insight and intelligence, had been given a free hand to overhaul that abysmal, atrocious, saddening Torchwood.

Got to agree dude, season two was the bomb, the fuse, and the little bit that connects the two as well.