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";s:4:"text";s:11128:"I just thought ‘Why am I still stuck in children’s television? She thinks she’s perfectly reasonable and other people should be more like her. And joining them was former series showrunner (and Day of the Doctor screenwriter) Steven Moffat, who made a surprise return to Twitter after quitting the platform a few years ago in order to join in the conversation online. We joke it could be less that he guessed correctly and more that many journalists in senior editorial roles grew up on Press Gang and brought what we learned from the show to our jobs. Largely, though, even all these years later Moffat said he was extremely happy with what he and the Doctor Who team managed to put together. “If you’ve got a bunch of teenagers and you’ve got a job and you want something responsible done, done well, you’re not going to choose the blokes. 50.3k Followers, 96 Following, 270 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Steven Moffat (@stevenwmoffat) “We were all very young,” Moffat reflects, chatting via Zoom on lockdown from a room lined with bookshelves. She’s been an entertainment journalist for more than a decade previously working at DVD & Blu-ray…, Steven Moffat’s Press Gang: 5 Best Episodes, The Other 1990s TV Shows That Deserve a Reboot, Doctor Who: 13 Brilliant New Stories from Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat and more, Doctor Who: revisiting Steven Moffat’s Christmas specials. Ah, that was lovely. For me there’s never been a clearer example of ‘if you can see it, you can be it,’ though at the time I just thought it was a really cool show. #savetheday Disappearing after that BEFORE THEY GET ME!!!! I had Lynda not care. “I was trying to do every kind of television you could do in the same series. back then he hated doing issues episodes. Access exclusive energy deals! I think I improved it in the book. And joining them was former series showrunner (and Day of the Doctor screenwriter) Steven Moffat, who made a surprise return to Twitter after quitting the platform a … #SaveTheDay, Doctor Who returns to BBC One in late 2020/early 2021. “The thing that children are most interested in is how to be an adult. The thing about Press Gang is that it always was incredibly grown up in a way that was instantly recognisable to youngsters. At the heart of the show was the on-again off-again romance between the paper’s editor Lynda Day (Sawalha) and the American bad boy foisted onto her editorial team Spike (Fletcher) – it was the snappy back and forth dialogue between the two, coupled with great performances from both that kept things funny and fresh even during some of the more serious episodes. Our best wishes for a productive day. I think I thought my female students 35 years ago, should have been more like that.”. They’re not really interested in how to be a child and they’re very irritated if that’s the way you treat them. Despite being trapped at home social distancing or in self-isolation during the coronavirus pandemic, at 7.00pm GMT they all tuned into 50th anniversary episode The Day of the Doctor at the same time, reliving the highs of the 2013 special all over again. Sign in to manage your newsletter preferences. Any dungeon scene would be improved by River Song and a robot clown. By entering your details, you are agreeing to Radio Times privacy policy. Julia came in with her sweet little voice, and she’s very pretty, and she just said all these dreadful lines that Lynda had with the voice of sweet reason.”. .cls-2{mix-blend-mode:screen}.cls-3{fill:none;stroke:red;stroke-miterlimit:10;stroke-width:4px}.cls-4{fill:red}, The Sherlock and Doctor Who writer remembers the teenage journalists who changed the world. Only watching the show now, 30-odd years after my first go round, did I notice that I even dressed like Lynda as a teenager a few years later – though I don’t remember that ever being a conscious choice. On Saturday 21st March, Doctor Who fans around the world did something special. I overthought. If he created a show that influenced a generation it was a massive learning experience for him too as his first TV show and an opportunity he grasped with both hands. The playing in this scene is stellar, and that makes it work. It won multiple awards, launched the career of its lead Julia Sawalha, turned Dexter Fletcher – now an extremely accomplished director – into a teenage heartthrob and gave Moffat the space to flex his writing muscles beginning a career which would see him create numerous iconic sitcoms, reinvent Sherlock and Dracula and guide Doctor Who though a modern glory age. They want to be adults. So I always called Press Gang the adventures of some young people who are being adults for the very first time in their lives. It’s probably a bad idea, but it’s your choice.’” he says. We shot a bit where all the pictures slid up the walls as the room descended. “I remember a time when the original Star Trek was too dated to watch and then it became beautiful, it became a relic from another time and its vibrancy and its colour leapt out at you. What do I know about it? Can’t we just tell some jokes and have some flirty scenes with Spike and Lynda?”. “So of course at the end, I did that. DuckTales Season 3 Episode 11 Review: The Forbidden Fountain of the Foreverglades! #SaveTheDay. “I think when we first started seeing a lot of people for Lynda, a lot of them were really quite bad,” Moffat laughs. The fact is, Steven Moffat was something of a youth himself at 25 years old when he landed his very first television writing gig. From providing a voice for youth of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s and inspiring a generation, to reaching kids and adults alike with his later shows, it’s possible Press Gang might connect with an entirely new set of young people who now have access to the show. If you were a bit less nice now and then maybe you’d get a bit more done!’”. But first he would have to save himself.”, Now here's a thing. You can unsubscribe at any time. Thanks! Now more than 30 years after the first episode aired, season one of Press Gang has arrived on BritBox – it’s a jewel from a different era but revisiting it now, rather than dated, it seems incredibly progressive. So why are we doing it for kids? It was Moffat’s experience as a teacher that helped give him that focused understanding of what kids wanted to watch. David's TARDIS was in the Doctor Who experience. And for fans of the unique minutiae of Doctor Who production, his entire commentary was a pretty unique gift. Lynda does have a heart but being good at her job is more important to her than being liked. I didn’t know. Watching back as an adult journalist and I can see shades of Lynda in female editors I have worked for and deeply respect, though I am more of a Sarah type these days – Kelda Holmes’ character, the constantly stressed writer struggling with deadlines who does actually want to be liked. And I miss you lot. More than 30 years later and certain episodes are lodged immovably in my head. The key to the mystery is local shops selling solvents to glue-sniffing kids and the Junior Gazette team organise a sting operation to catch the vendors in the act, publishing an expose in the paper. You’re not!” he laughs. “I’d have been a party animal if anyone had wanted to have a party with me! And it gives the game away. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. “They were always at me to do one about drugs. We stupidly cut a line here. “Of course the editor is going to be a woman! Rosie Fletcher is the UK Editor of Den Of Geek. Episodes of the show include movie parodies, bottle episodes, dream sequences and flights of fantasy as well as several deaths and at least one big disaster plot line. She’s not a particularly vulnerable person. I think I rewrote it too often though Pulls in slightly too many directions. Want to watch something tonight? He did eventually do his own take on a drugs storyline, in the very last ever episode of the show, ‘There Are Crocodiles’. #SaveTheDay. Found this. “I never lived in a time when there weren’t loads of women in authority. I’d kill a dragon for you” etc). We all thought that. And why aren’t you saying that about any other character in this show?’”. Around the world, fans tuned into the Day of the Doctor at the same time, and the anniversary special’s writer was on hand to give them new information. “[They said] ‘You’ve got to show that she’s vulnerable on the inside’ to which I always replied, ‘everybody’s vulnerable on the inside. “I’m curious to see if it does any business on Britbox at all. The show introduced me to the thrill of a newsroom run by people like me, it showed me an environment where all the senior members of staff on the paper – the editor, the lead designer, the head writer, and even the intern – were girls and no one even mentioned it, and it told me that actually, working really hard can be fun. Everyone thought it was too silly. That maybe we should have had a few more of just life in the newsroom episodes, but it would literally just be it’s time to do a big sad one. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. “We’re not doing that in adult television. “You’ve all got an ‘operations board’ now,” Moffat teases. That’s literally how they’re wired – to become one. ... Moffat had a Twitter account back in his early showrunner days, but he deleted it in September 2012 after getting into a couple light scuffles with obnoxious fans. Steven Moffat is on twitter (temporarily) Discussion in 'Doctor Who' started by Captaindemotion, Mar 21, 2020. It was a time before Harry Potter and The Hunger Games where YA didn’t consciously exist as a genre, yet Press Gang was truly a show for young adults, whether that was an 11-year-old wannabe journalist, a 20-year-old actress just starting out or a 25-year-old writer embarking on his first show who would go on to change TV as we know it. Lynda isn’t saying things that she thinks she needs to shout, she thinks that what she says is self-evidently true. I loved it. Check out our TV listings, Indulge in a premium cheese, charcuterie and wine bundle – delivered direct to your door. To say that Lynda was my idol doesn’t scratch the surface. The show was a game changer. “Well, she said she did know. And Lynda will say ‘I don’t give a fuck. She was the role model I never knew I had. It was an era where technology as we now know it was moving from infancy into adulthood, just beginning to stretch its legs and see what it could do. “I thought it was patronising,” he says. Relic or not, Press Gang is a show that was both absolutely of its time and unconsciously ahead of it. Who the hell qualified us as a bunch of media wastrels to inform people how they should think or live? #SaveTheDay. It might be the wrong kind of dated,” reflects Moffat. I added flashbacks. Hurt was so FUNNY saying that, and we were fools. ";s:7:"keyword";s:21:"steven moffat twitter";s:5:"links";s:656:"Jonathan Cheechoo Stats, Rubble Meaning, Southpoint Spa Packages, Songs: Ohia Youtube, Longwood, Fl Full Zip Code, Westchester Hospital, ";s:7:"expired";i:-1;}