Apparently according to Steven Moffat, he has admitted that the long-running science fiction family show is not actually suitable for children.

Oh, dear! Children are not going to be happy.

This is the report:

http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-...di-Mark-Gatiss

What do you think? Will you still let your children watch it?

It's a turn of phrase, he actually thinks it is suitable for children.

"It's a children's programme that's not suitable for children. Kids like being scared."

Me thinks very much that when actually interpreted in context, rather than through the sensationalist headline of the Express, that he's basically saying the show isn't conventionally a kid's show. It's 'scary' and it pushes boundaries, it's topical and relevant in a way kids sometimes won't understand - but only in the same way that jokes in some kids films go over the kids heads and are directed at the inevitable adults also watching. It rises to the challenge of trying to scare the younger audience away, and that's exactly why some of the younger audience absolutely loves it.

But then, I do wonder how stories like The Mind Robber and The Tomb of the Cybermen ever made it as children's television. Absolutely spine-chilling stuff, at least for me anyway.

well, the time slot sure isnt suited towards children

I don't thInk The Express is suitable for children. Doctor Who..,fine.

Well series 6 was very childish and he wrote that.

I love when someone reads a headline and reacts to it.

No, wait... change to that to 'I find it incredibly tedious and faintly annoying when someone reads a headline and reacts to it'.



Because it's never been a children's show. Hence why it was never made by the children's drama department at the BBC, something they were much chagrined about initially.

would it be too much to ask that someone actually read the article they are basing their entire thread on? is that too demanding? is it a hate crime?

Most kids are too inteligent to put up with the garbage from moffat and co

Tonights ending wasent!

Tonight's episode would have caused any kiddies watching to lose the plot within the first 30 seconds. The ending was totally inconsequential tripe.

Tonight's episode was the most suitable for children ever - in the sense that it would have had them asleep by 20:30...

Oh ha, ha! Very funny!

It wasn't suitable for children. It had scary monsters made of 'sleep' that you find in the corners of your eyes in the mornings.

A lot of kids parents would have had to Febreze the sofa and change their childrens trousers before the end.

As for Reece's face breaking up in the last two minutes. That was almost crossing the line as far as children are concerned.