'Doctor Who' Season 8 Spoilers: Series Needs More Woman Writers? Neil Gaiman Talks Gender Imbalance [VIDEO]
Doctor Who may not e as anti-woman as some viewers wish to believe.
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When it comes to female writers, Neil Gaiman believes the BBC series is serious bout actively recruiting female voices to add to the mix. The American Gods author has penned two episodes for the iconic sci-fi program ("Nightmare in Silver," "The Doctor's Wife"), and recently posted two separate responses regarding the gender imbalance in the Doctor Who writer's room.
While first expressing displeasure at the fact that the series has failed to employ a single writer without a Y chromosome since 2008, Gaiman later explained that there are some scheduling issues that have come into play.
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"In the six years I've been working with the Doctor Who team, the producers and script editors I've directly worked with (four out of six of whom have been women) have had a lot of attention on getting women writers onto the team," Gaiman said on Tumblr (via The Mary Sue). "They've reached out to a lot of women writers - I know that Steven Moffat has personally been in touch with a lot of female writers and been defeated over and over by scheduling problems, and people saying no, and been as frustrated as anybody (probably much more frustrated as he's the one reaching out). It's a priority for them too."
See what the current Doctor Who writers have planned for the rest of season 8 when Doctor Who airs Saturdays on the BBC and BBC America. Click the video below to see a preview for the series' next episode, "Flatline."
