Steven Moffat

STEVEN MOFFAT is one of the UK's most eminent television writers. His two-part story The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances for Series 1 of the BBC TV's revival of Dr. Who (starring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper) won him much acclaim and the award for Television Moment of the Year, as well as the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form. He went on to join the series as executive producer and writer on the following season, with David Tennant as the Doctor, for BBC One. In addition to writing and co- creating the series Sherlock, for which he won a Royal Television Society Award, he garnered acclaim for his updated version of Jekyll, starring James Nesbitt, for BBC One.

As creator/writer of the cult BBC2 sitcom Coupling, Moffat wrote 28 episodes over 4 series, winning the Silver Rose of Montreux 2001 and the award for Best TV Comedy at the British Comedy Awards December 2003. Coupling is produced by Sue Vertue for Hartswood Films.

Moffat's first television work was as writer of all 43 episodes over five seasons of Press Gang, about a group of wayward high school students who are given a local newspaper to run. The series won the BAFTA and Royal Television Society Awards for Best Children's Program (and was nominated for two Writers Guild of Great Britain awards, 1 Prix Jeunesse and another BAFTA).

He then wrote two situation comedies for the BBC, Joking Apart, directed by Bob Spiers, which won the Bronze Rose of Montreux 1995, and Chalk, which caused an uproar in the teaching profession. His other television work includes Privates, also directed by Spiers, the pilot for a one-hour comedy drama, for the ITV Network; Norman at the Office, a one-off half-hour comedy starring Robert Lindsay; Overkill and Dying Live, half-hour television plays for Dawn French; and Exam Conditions, a half-hour silent film for the EBU Commission/Central Television, which won the Prix Jeunesse and Plovdiv Awards and was nominated for a RTS award.

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