Next year may only offer a handful of "Doctor Who" specials, but that hasn't stopped new show runner Steven Moffat from laying the foundations to his grand vision for the series.

According to the executive producer, all the ideas of the new season of the series are firmly rooted in his imagination and Russell T. Davies -- who resurrected and led the show for four years -- has helped to bridge the gap between the five one-off specials of 2009 and the fifth season to ensure that there is a flawless passing of the torch.

"It's all happening in this head," Moffat said, according to SciFi Wire. "I know where I want it to start. I don't mean to make it sound very grand. It's very simple, just where I want it to be when it takes off. So [Russell's] arranged for that."

Since the show made its high-profile return to the screens in 2005, Moffat has received a great deal of critical recognition for his storytelling (the most recent of which is "Silence In The Library/Forrest Of The Dead"), and although he hopes to continue the trend, his new roles will require him to work a little differently ... and a little more upbeat.

"There are a bunch of things I've always wanted to see in 'Doctor Who,' yes, but now it's slightly different -- it's very different in my new position," Moffat added. "Obviously, I only turned up once a year, and practically my brief was to write, in effect, the Moffat episode -- the one that's very different, the one that's a bit timey-wimey or a bit scary. And that's all they were expecting. And they would just tell me, 'Go, and do your thing.' So I would do my Moffat-y thing -- whatever the fuck that is -- in a very, very pronounced way. But you couldn't have a whole series like that. If you started a series with 'Silence of the Library' or 'Blink,' people would turn off. You can't have that as the first episode. It's just too grim. So it's different contemplating it from this position, very, very different."

And one way in which he plans on achieving this is to use the series as a vessel to tackle a few different genres.

"All you can do is make exciting television episodes and experiment with different voices," he said. "I've quite deliberately and purposefully -- it's not been an accident -- had a very consistent voice in 'Doctor Who,' because that enables Russell to manage me. He knows what he's going to get. He knew it was going to be dark before [he] got it, because that's what he said it was. 'You'll be doing a dark one.' Whereas Russell in 'Doctor Who' will write everything from 'Partners in Crime' to 'Midnight,' and those two have nothing in common as far as voice is concerned. It's two totally different takes on the same show. And that's quite exciting for me, too, because I get to write episodes that I wouldn't normally write, that wouldn't be expected of me."

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