In the latest edition of the Doctor Who Magazine, Steven Moffat has revealed some of his plans for the next series of the show as well as throwing in a few hints about what we can expect from the opening episode.

Moffat, who will be writing at least five of the fourteen episodes commisioned for series 7, told the magazine that he will be shaking things up when the show returns next year, “I just think, ‘What haven’t we done yet? How do we mix it up?’ And questioning our own assumptions, like the hardwired assumption, absolutely in my brain, that two-parters are essential. They’re not.”

“This year, we used a lot of cliffhangers and mysteries to pull people through,” Moffat added, “but then I remember the moment, at the end of A Good Man Goes to War, when we put up the title Let’s Kill Hitler. That was so exciting. I’m thinking, ‘Can we do that every week?’ You can sod off with poetic understatement.”

“I want slutty titles and movie-poster plots. I want big pictures and straplines. The first episode I’m writing is called [Spoiler] of the [Spoiler]. And it’ll feel a bit like Die Hard, that first episode,” he teases. “Everyone is expecting us to do another year like 2011. You’re not going to get that at all. You’re going to get the biggest, maddest set of episodes ever.”

Doctor Who returns to our screens on Christmas Day for a festive edition of the hit time-travelling drama.