Who News: Steven Moffat Talks Series 8 Direction

The Twelfth Doctor returns for new adventures in 2014- see the first details here.
Executive producer Steven Moffat has this week begun discussions with the media on what the next season of Doctor Who will entail for fans. Series Eight has already entered production, and filming on the opening two-part story- which stars Peter Capaldi as the Doctor and Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald- is set to take place in January.

Speaking to Nerd 3 today, the showrunner divulged a few tidbits on the tone of the eighth run since the show's return in 2005. Here's what Moffat had to say: "If Russell had stayed on, Doctor Who would still have changed. I remember when we had our handover chat, he was saying 'so what are you going to do, are you going to change that? and I said 'well, what would you change?' and we both agreed 'it's time to kick a lot of stuff out.' And actually, it is time again to do that. It changes all the time, and it's keeping ahead of the audience in a way. All shows age and they all age sort of in the same way. You learn how to do it, you get really slick at it, and then you think you're really, really slick at it and everyone's started to yawn. So now we've got to actually get a bit raw at it and do it in a different direction. It happens on every show- you get good at it and 'good at it' is the true enemy in the end."

Doctor Who returns to BBC One with a new series in August 2014.