'Doctor Who' Spoilers: Female Writer Set For Season 9; 'Torchwood' Catherine Tregenna Returns [VIDEO]
For the first time since 2008, a woman will pen a Doctor Who episode.
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Catherine Tregenna is slatted to deliver a season 9 script, according to her client page on The Agency.
While the BBC series tends to run low on writers without a Y chromosome, this won't be Tregenna's forst foray into the world of the Doctor. Tregenna penned four Torchwood episodes, including "Out of Time" and "Captain Jack Harkness."
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Doctor Who fans have long criticized the BBC series for its lack of female scribes, and seasoned Who writer Neil Gaiman weighed in on the issue back in October.
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."
It seems their efforts have final paid off.
As the wait for season 9 begins, fans can catch the 2014 Doctor Who Christmas special on Dec. 25 on the BBC and BBC America. Click the video below to see a preview.
