I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.

" Moffat says that Spielberg was "lovely" about his decision. In 2012 he was awarded the BAFTA Special Award. In the Doctor Who Magazine reader poll for the 2007 series Moffat was voted as best writer and "Blink" as the best story.

In 2012 he was awarded the BAFTA Special Award. A lifelong fan of Doctor Who Moffat has written several episodes of the revived version and succeeded Russell T Davies as lead writer and executive producer when production of its fifth series began in 2009.