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14 May 2024, 14:47
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Steven Moffat has revealed he is the writer of Doctor Who’s 2024 Christmas special.
Speaking in an interview with TV Choice, the former Doctor Who showrunner and Sherlock co-creator admitted that as well as this Saturday (18th May)’s episode Boom, he has also written a festive episode entitled Joy To The World for Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor too.
The Christmas special - Gatwa’s second following 2023’s The Church on Ruby Road - will star Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan, and will be set during the Second World War. Coughlan is expected to star as the Doctor’s one-off companion in the episode, leaving questions as to where Millie Gibson’s Ruby Sunday will be left at the end of series 14.
Joy To The World will be Moffat’s 50th script for Doctor Who, an astonishing achievement which makes him Who’s most prolific script writer so far.
“I must be about to lose that title?” he questioned during his TV Choice interview, but as it was later pointed out, current showrunner Russell T Davies is only at 41. “I don’t have any strong feeling about the fact that I’ve written more than anyone. It does feel slightly embarrassing,” Moffat later added.
Asked whether Joy To The World might be his last Doctor Who script, the Douglas is Cancelled writer shared: “Well, that’s the thing. It is entirely possible that I won’t write Doctor Who again. I don’t know. I mean, after Christmas, I’m not lying. I’m not involved in series two [of Ncuti’s tenure as the Doctor].
“My contribution, in effect, is the Christmas special. I’ve got quite a lot of things that are coming in for me to do, so I might never write Doctor Who again,” he admitted. “What I feel slightly sad about is, even if I do another one, I probably won’t know when I’ve done my last one. I thought I knew how the story ended. I thought I knew how that chapter of my life expired. I thought it ended with [his 2017 script] Twice Upon A Time.”
He also shared: “I’m not against doing another one at all, but I don’t have any tremendous visceral need to do another one. As I got to the end of Boom, and as I got to the end of Joy To The World, I did think, ‘Is that it? Is that the final moment?’ I think they both have quite good final moments for the Doctor. I was thinking, ‘Yeah, that could be goodbye.’”
Doctor Who will next air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Saturday, 18th May.
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