Moffat Says He’s Not Running Out of Ideas Yet

Despite Steven Moffat now overseeing his fifth full series as Doctor Who Showrunner and approaching a decade of writing episodes for the show, he has insisted that he’s not having any trouble coming up with fresh ideas.

Moffat told the Radio Times magazine: “If you’re a writer, you’re supposed to have ideas. Whether they’re any good or not isn’t up to me. It’s whether you’re still excited by it – jumping up and down about the idea you’ve just had. You’ve got to bring energy into the script and production process. And I still do.

“When you’re in a constant stream for several years of just doing Doctor Who all the time – even though I do Sherlock, too – you get into the rhythm of it. Everything looks like a Doctor Who idea and I would say, conceitedly, that I can solve a narrative problem very fast.”