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Anthony Horowitz Denies He Is Next Doctor Who Showrunner…
According to Bleedingcool.com, Morris posted on Facebook that Steven Moffat is to be replaced by Anthony Horowitz OBE as show runner. Horowitz, for those lagging behind the rumour-machine, is an award-winning children’s author and screenwriter with a long history of output. He created the WWII detective series Foyle’s War which, (according the Internet’s main source of truth) was brought back after cancellation in 2007 due to the complaints and demands of fans. Sound familiar? He’s written several mini-series, episodes of Midsomer Murders and Poirot. He, err, also created Crime Traveller. But we can forgive him that. I think. #paleimitations …the OBE’s for contributions to literature (!) and his Alex Rider graphic novels for children have been made into a film. He’s currently working on a screenplay for Disney (more below) so he’s what you might call *big guns*. A serious contender perhaps?

Morris’s claim about the imminent replacement of Moffat was apparently embedded in a general expression of dissatisfaction with the show’s current format and direction – too much Victorian London (blasphemy!) The site suggests a background to this implying in previous articles that things have not been entirely chipper between Morris and Moffat for a while.

Horowitz seems to have initially quashed this rumour with a stone cold “unlikely.”

But before you can say “I FOUND EPISODE FOUR OF TENTH PLANET” he’s changed his tune to “interesting” and replying to questions on the rumour’s veracity with “who knows”…

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Holly Black Announced As Writer Of 12th Puffin Doctor Who Title

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guardiansmallThere’s been a lot of speculation on who is writing the 12th story in Puffin’s series of Doctor Who adventures – to celebrate the arrival of Peter Capaldi as the newly regenerated Doctor.

Twitter was briefly alight a couple of weeks ago with the incorrect news that it was Frank Cottrell Boyce and before that some diehard fans were convinced JK Rowling had the job!

But now the Guardian children’s books site can reveal the truth: it’s bestselling American sci fi and fantasy writer author Holly Black

via We reveal the author of the new Doctor Who adventure! | Children’s books | theguardian.com.

Guardian Review

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Tony Bradman applauds the team assembled for this Doctor Who anthology:

Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 Stories by Various Authors

The concept for this particular story collection exhibits the kind of cunning that comes as standard in the CVs of Whovian villains. The Doctor has regenerated 11 times, so why not ask 11 authors to write a story featuring their favourite Doctor? It’s a neat wheeze, brought out to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first episode.

If the Master was behind it, however, his plot has backfired. Anthologies can be patchy affairs, but this addition to the Whoniverse is very good, a tribute to the skills of the writers involved. But then the contributor list does read like a first XI of children’s fiction, all of them prizewinners and/or commercial galácticos: Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott, Marcus Sedgwick, Philip Reeve, Patrick Ness, Richelle Mead, Malorie Blackman, Alex Scarrow , Charlie Higson, Derek Landy, and one author who would make a pretty good Doctor himself, Neil Gaiman.

via Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 Stories by Various Authors – review | Books | The Guardian.