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"Steven Moffat has promised Doctor Who fans more online episodes. Following the success of iPlayer special &amp;#039;The Night of the Doctor&amp;#039;, the sci-fi showrunner told SFX that he would like to make similar episodes for the new series.  &amp;quot;I think we now have to accept that online stuff isn&amp;#039;t a spin-off anymore,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;We used to treat it as a spin-off that maybe some people would watch. &amp;quot;And to be absolutely honest I thought they were bank raids - they&amp;#039;d give me some money to do an online thing and I&amp;#039;d say, &amp;#039;Right, what crew do we already have, what actors do we already have, what set do we already have?&amp;#039; So we&amp;#039;d spend no money on it at all, whack it out in a day, pump the money into the episode and off you go.&amp;quot; He continued: &amp;quot;But then you suddenly realise something like &amp;#039;Pond Life&amp;#039;, which we took much more seriously, had an audience of over six million. You think, &amp;#039;Oh wait, that&amp;#039;s a TV show!&amp;#039; That&amp;#039;s just a TV show and a lot of our audience make no distinction between that and the TV show. &amp;quot;Same with &amp;#039;The Night of the Doctor&amp;#039;. What I think is quite exciting about all that stuff is you&amp;#039;re allowed to do a six-minute episode. I actually think &amp;#039;The Night Of The Doctor&amp;#039; is one of the best ones we&amp;#039;ve done, and I don&amp;#039;t think it would be improved by being 45 minutes long. What more storytelling do we need?  &amp;quot;Arguably always the problem with the regeneration show is everybody&amp;#039;s just waiting for the bit when he dies and regenerates - so why don&amp;#039;t we just do that bit? You don&amp;#039;t feel that you&amp;#039;re short-selling it at all. &amp;quot;So there&amp;#039;s going to be more of that, up until the point when all television is like that. And it will be. All television will be downloadable content. It&amp;#039;s coming.&amp;quot; However, Moffat explained that any new online episodes won&amp;#039;t be considered spin-offs or prequels. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ll certainly do some more,&amp;quot; he promised. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ll do more prequels and stuff. I&amp;#039;ve been in to talk to the channel controller of iPlayer and say &amp;#039;We need proper money for it&amp;#039;, and they&amp;#039;re very keen. &amp;quot;And we don&amp;#039;t call them prequels, we don&amp;#039;t call them minisodes, we just call them Doctor Who. That&amp;#039;s all they are. As I say, why not do an episode that&amp;#039;s ten minutes? Or an episode that&amp;#039;s half an hour? It depends what it suits.&amp;quot; Doctor Who will premiere Peter Capaldi&amp;#039;s first series as The Doctor on August 23 on BBC One. Watch a trailer below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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