Moffat: Series 10 Delay Nothing To Do With Me

Steven Moffat has denied that the Series 10 delay of Doctor Who to 2017 was down to him and his increased workload on Sherlock, as earlier reports had claimed.

“It was nothing to do with me,” Moffat exclaims to Broadcast in a new interview.

He continues: “The BBC1 controller made that decision. I love that people think I have any power over that at all, and that the BBC schedules things around me. They schedule around Peter Capaldi and Benedict Cumberbatch, and plug me into the machine whenever they feel like it.”

Moffat also believes that Series 9’s scheduling slot in the Autumn of 2015 “wasn’t right.”

“We launched during the rugby and it was on too late. Now these aren’t terrible mistakes because the BBC is wicked; putting it on that late was an experiment. It might have worked but, in my view, it didn’t. It’s critical that when Doctor Who launches, it’s the television event in that area. It’s tough enough making series nine a TV event, but you certainly can’t do it when there’s another major fixture going on.”