Okay, So Steven Moffat is best known currently as the showrunner and lead writer for Dr. Who. He has written some of the best episodes since the 2004 reboot of the series including The Empty Child, Blink, and The Girl in the Fireplace. He has also written many of the episodes of series five starring Matt Smith as the Doctor, while being hard at work on series six.
If this was all, I would recommend his works on this basis alone... but wait, there's more!
He also recently helped create and write the BBC series Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr Watson(best known to Americans as Arthur Dent in the adaptation of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy). Set in Modern day London this take on Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes is breezy, witty fun. In many ways better written and more fun than the movie starring Robert Downie Jr. , though if you liked one, you'd probably like the other.
But this is not the end, there is more.
Jekyll a mini series starring James Nesbitt as a modern day descendant of the notorious Dr. Jekyll with obvious implications. Fun, and scary with the Jekyll and Hyde switch done entirely through amazing acting. But wait there is more.
Steven Moffat also wrote all (as in every episode) of the BBC series Coupling which is some of the funniest TV anywhere in the past ten years. The Episode where one of the characters has one legs to many (that number being two legs), and the episode that has the rant about living room pillows being pets for couches are particularly among my favorites.
So many hours of witty British TV. With Coupling, Jekyll and many episodes of Dr. Who on Netflix Watch Now, or DVD and Sherlock available on DVD. Better start watching now because this man loves to work.
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