Steven Moffat Reveals the Advice he Gave to Chris Chibnall
Steven Moffat is handing over the title of show runner to Chris Chibnall and he has finally revealed the advice he gave to his successor.
In an interview with Worldscreen, Steven Moffat revealed the advice he gave to Chris Chibnall on taking over Doctor Who. And his advice was more of his take on Chibnall and how he feels about the man as well as a bit of advice for him.
"First of all, he’s a very, very experienced showrunner himself, so he doesn’t need advice. The advice I gave him, which I won’t share, was not about how to run Doctor Who but how to have a life while you’re running Doctor Who. The things you must make sure of.He’s a family man, like myself. You’ve got to make sure that you survive it! And the support you’re going to need and what it’s going to be like at 4 in the morning when you’re rewriting some other bastard’s script and not even putting your name on it. What that’s going to feel like. That is what I talked to him about.He has his own ideas about how to do Doctor Who. The advice I’ve given him is all prosaic and all quite, ‘Make sure this happens, make sure you get that and don’t let them do this’. I won’t tell you what those things were!But it’s really about, you’ve got to see your kids now and then. You’ve got to go home now and then. You’ve got to keep living. It is a monstrous workload, Doctor Who, monstrous."
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Doctor Who season 10 premieres this April and we’re excited to see what Moffat has in store for us. We’ll miss him as show runner but at least we got some amazing seasons out of him!