Who?! The man who is talking over Doctor Who from Russel T Davies. The seriously cool man who wrote the Best. Episode. Ever: “Blink”. He also wrote “The Empty Child” (‘are you my mummy?’) which is the SCARIEST. EPISODE. EVER. I only have to say ‘muuuuuuuumy’ in that voice and my five year-old son flinches and runs to find cushions, which is frankly a useful weapon to have in one’s arsenal, and for that alone respect is due to the scare-meister Moffat.
He also wrote Press Gang, but I’ll forgive him that. And the new Tintin movie which might not suck after all.
NOTE: Just read this on Wikipedia and – if true – I like him even more now:
During production of the second series of Press Gang, he was having an unhappy personal life after the break-up of his first marriage. Producer Sandra C. Hastie was secretly phoning his friends at home to check if he was alright. His wife’s new lover was represented in the episode “The Big Finish?” by the character Brian Magboy (Simon Schatzberger), a name inspired by Brian: Maggie’s 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.
Hey, I loved Press Gang! Fab programme and Dexter Fletcher was hunky!
Hey, I loved Press Gang! Fab programme and Julia Sawalha was gorgeous!
Yes – you’re right that Blink was superb.
Okay okay I secretly liked Press Gang too, but I never had the obligatory teenage male crush on JS and so always felt a bit left out.