Steven Moffat
Steven Moffat (born 1961 in Paisley, Scotland, UK) is a British comedy/drama writer who has contributed to television series since the late 1980s.
After initially working as a teacher, his first work on television was for the children's drama series Press Gang, starring Julia Sawalha in 1989, which he also co-created. The series was immensely successful and ran for four years on ITV, with Moffat penning all of the forty-three episodes.
He later moved onto writing jobs on series such as Murder Most Horrid starring Dawn French, and created two of his own sitcoms, BBC One's Chalk and BBC Two's Joking Apart. As is traditional for many of those in the British sitcom world, he has contributed to the bi-annual Comic Relief charity telethon nights, including writing the script for the science-fiction parody Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death in 1999.
In 2000 he created and wrote the sitcom Coupling for BBC Two. The series proved to be highly successful, running until 2004 and producing four seasons and twenty-eight episodes, all written by Moffat. He also wrote the original, unbroadcast, pilot episode for the American version of the same series, in 2003, although this was less successful and was cancelled after just four episodes on the NBC network.
In 2005 he contributed a two-part story, The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances, to the new series of the science-fiction classic Doctor Who for BBC One, and in April it was announced that he would be returning to write a further script (The Girl in the Fireplace) for the second season of the revival. This episode was transmitted in May 2006.
In Doctor Who Magazine issue 364 (December 2005), he told an interviewer that he would also be penning an episode for the third series of Doctor Who in 2007 — this was confirmed in issue 369. He is also writing Jekyll, a modern version of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in six sixty-minute episodes, a Hartswood Films production for BBC One due to go into production in September 2006.[1]
References
- 1 . BBC Press Office release on Jekyll casting. bbc.co.uk, December 12 2005. URL accessed March 25 2006.