New Doctor Who is "the best", says chief writer
New Doctor Who Matt Smith is "the best", says chief writer
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Friday, 30, Oct 2009 02:09
By Lewis Bazley.
Matt Smith, the young actor who will take over from David Tennant as Doctor Who next year, is "the best", according to the show's chief writer.
Speaking at the 2009 Screenwriters' Festival in Cheltenham, Steven Moffat was full of praise for Smith, the youngest ever actor to play the Time Lord.
"He's all the things you'd expect, including ancient," he explained, adding Smith was "someone you can't take your eyes off".
Smith began filming his first scenes as the Time Lord alongside new assistant Karen Gillan in Cardiff in July, with the new series due on UK screens in spring 2010.
Twenty-seven-year-old Smith will take over from Tennant in the latter's final episode, The End of Time, expected to air at the end of this year or in early 2010.
Writer Russell T Davies, who revived Doctor Who in 2005, warned audiences to expect an emotional goodbye to Tennant's Doctor.
"At Christmas... I warn you now get your Kleenex out and your tissues," he told BBC Breakfast.
"We finished the episode [on Wednesday] and we were crying our eyes out. It's very lovely, powerful stuff, it's David Tennant at his absolute finest."
Moffat, who also wrote BBC sitcom Coupling, takes over from Davies as the programme's lead writer and executive producer and admitted he recognised the pressure to maintain the series' high standards.
"What if I broke Doctor Who?" he joked. "That would be a tragedy."