Steven Moffat reveals Series 5 updates
Although Doctor Who fans across the land are preparing themselves for the next Doctor Who special, The Waters of Mars, the new production team are hard at work as filming for Series 5 continues in and around Cardiff.
And Steven Moffat promises that when the show returns to its 13-week run next year, there’ll be plenty of great stories, joyous moments and good old-fashioned Doctor Who heartbreak on the menu!
Speaking at the 2009 Screenwriters’ Festival in Cheltenham earlier today, Moffat went on to confirm that, as head writer, he’s penning 6 episodes of the new series, and he’s currently facing his biggest challenge so far in writing the series finale.
He also described Eleventh Doctor actor Matt Smith as “someone you can’t take your eyes off” (in a good way!), and even hailed him as the best incarnation of the Time Lord yet!
The fifth series of Doctor Who is due to air on BBC One and BBC HD from Spring 2010.
I’m pretty sure SM meant the TARDIS exterior was based on the Cushing films, not he interior. The bits we’ve seen of the interior don’t bear much resemblance.
Much as I respect Steven Moffat (and he comes from my hometown too ;)) I do think hailing Matt Smith as “the greatest Time Lord yet” really is a little premature, and tempting some sort of backlash. You can already sense it in articles and blogs. Confidence can sometimes be mistaken for arrogance.
I’ll always support DW, but we didn’t need these sweeping statements about any of the previous actors. Why start now?
@david
I agree with you! I think there is far too much hype at how fantastic the next series is going to be and we havent seen a thing from it yet. It would be a huge blow if the new series is terrible and many a whovian will be disappointed.
Also, I am going to recap on something I said a while back. There is way too much fuss over the new doctor when we stil havent seen DT leave yet, especially now when the final 3 episodes are going to come on. Series 5 needs to be put to sleep now until AFTER the final specials