TV Producer and writer Steven Moffat was born in Paisley on November 18th 1961.
One of my favourite guys in the showbiz world, my last post of the night is for one of the good guys in television.
Steven Moffat attended Camphill High School before going on to Glasgow University where he was involved with the student television station, GUST (Glasgow University Student Television). He gained an MA in English and became a teacher for over three years at Cowdenknowes High School, Greenock.
During his years teaching Moffat wrote a couple of plays, one of which, War Zones was performed at Glasgow’s Mayfest and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His big break came when his dad, a primary school headmaster, met TV producers filming the Harry Secombe show Highway at his school, he told them about an idea for a show about a school newspaper, the producers asked for a sample script and he insisted his son Steven write it. Producer Sandra Hastie said that it was “the best ever first script” that she had read. The show, Press Gang ran for 43 episodes over 5 series an gave us the likes of Dexter Fletcher and Julia Sawalha. Steven has never looked back.
He is perhaps best known now for his work with Dr Who, his two-part story The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances for series one of BBC One’s revival of Doctor Who (starring Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper) won him much acclaim, including the award for ‘Television Moment of the Year’ and the first of three HUGO Awards. He has since went on to write numerous episodes and has been showrunner, lead writer and executive producer from 2009 right through until this year.
Steven Mofatt still finds time for other work, the feature screenplay for the Golden Globe-nominated Tintin, commissioned by Steven Spielberg via Spielberg’s company Dreamworks, Sherlock, a multi-award-winning, contemporary take on the Arthur Conan Doyle classic, was created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, he also wrote and was an Executive Producer of Jekyll, a six-part comedic thriller starring James Nesbitt.
Steven is one of the most eminent writers and producers in Television and is in great demand his latest projects include Inside Man, a mini series about a man on death row, The Time Traveller's Wife an upcoming American based on the novel of the same name and he is also revisiting a familiar character Jekyll, which of course has a Scottish with RLS, the short description say "The only living descendant of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde makes a deal with the dark side.“ I pointed this out last year, but no movement since then, it only says it is “Pre-Production”
