Usually Doctor Who fans have been able to count on at least one episode of the show airing in the spring. This is the first year that the audience must waiting until the fall to see anything.

It’s a well known adage that absence makes the heart grow fonder. Apparently, it’s an adage that showrunner, Steven Moffat, fully buys into based upon an interview he just had with Digital Spy.

There are going to be five Doctor Who episodes in the autumn, then a Christmas special, then eight more in 2013 – what was the thinking behind that structure?

I don’t know, on this occasion, that the thinking particularly came from me, actually. I’ve always been open to anything that shakes [the series] up. I think that decision actually came from the BBC. But I’ve been well up for anything that we can do to shake up the transmission pattern, the way we deliver it to the audience and how long we make the audience wait, simply because that makes Doctor Who an event piece. The more Doctor Who becomes a perennial, the faster it starts to die. You’ve got to shake it up, you’ve got to keep people on edge and wondering when it will come back…So keeping Doctor Who as an event, and never making people feel, ‘Oh, it’s lovely, reliable old Doctor Who – it’ll be on about this time, at that time of year’. Once you start to do that, just slowly, it becomes like any much-loved ornament in your house – ultimately invisible. And I don’t want that to ever be the case.

In the interview that also covers Moffat’s work on Sherlock, he is typically tight-lipped about specific show details. He goes on to talk about spoilers and the secrecy that is necessary to keep the show running. He often finds himself in a Catch-22 situation where he can’t make anyone happy because there are those who decry any news such the information that Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill would be leaving the show. He recounted one such recent occurrence, “…actor’s agents really do have to advertise their client’s availability – I had no choice but to announce they were going to leave. But in an ideal world, you wouldn’t even do that.”

How do you feel about the level of information that comes out about Doctor Who from official channels? Is it too much or too little? How are you coping until the fall series debut?

Hopefully,your Hypable Doctor Who writers, Laura and Harri, can help to ease the longing. We are recording our first Doctor Who podcast, along with staff members Jen and Natalie who are also fans of the show, this weekend, and hope to have it up on Itunes and Hypable this week. You can contact us @WhoHype or emailing whohype@hypable.com with questions, comments, suggestions. We want to hear from you!