Steven Moffat

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Steven Moffat
Steven Moffat appearing on Doctor Who Confidential
Born:	1961 Paisley, Scotland
Occupation:	Writer
Nationality:	British
Writing period:	1988-
Genres:	Comedy/drama

Steven Moffat (born 1961 in Paisley, Scotland) is a British comedy/drama writer who has contributed to television series since the late 1980s. He is married to Sue Vertue, a television producer.

After initially working as a teacher, his first work on television was for the children's drama series Press Gang, starring Julia Sawalha in 1989 which he also co-created with his father Bill Moffatt. The series was immensely successful and ran for four years on ITV, with the younger Moffatt penning all forty-three episodes. The series won a BAFTA award in its second season.

He later moved onto writing jobs on series such as Murder Most Horrid starring Dawn French, and created two of his own sitcoms, BBC One's Chalk and BBC Two's Joking Apart. As is traditional for many of those in the British sitcom world, he has contributed to the bi-annual Comic Relief charity telethon nights, writing the script for the science-fiction parody Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death in 1999.

In 2000 he created and wrote the sitcom Coupling for BBC Two, with his wife producing. The series proved to be highly successful, running until 2004 and producing four seasons and twenty-eight episodes, all written by Moffat. He also wrote the original, unbroadcast, pilot episode for the American version of the same series, in 2003, although this was less successful and was cancelled after just four episodes on the NBC network.

In 2005 he contributed the Hugo Award-winning two-part story "The Empty Child" / "The Doctor Dances" to the new series of the science-fiction classic Doctor Who for BBC One. He wrote an episode for each of the two following series of Doctor Who: "The Girl in the Fireplace" in the 2006 series (for which he was nominated for a 2006 Nebula Award^[1]), and "Blink" in the 2007 series.

He has also written Jekyll, a modern version of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in six sixty-minute episodes, a Hartswood Films production for BBC One. As of October 2006, Jekyll is currently in production.^[2]