Moffat Denies Return of the Master

Speaking at the premiere of Deep Breath yesterday, Steven Moffat told Den of Geek that he has no plans to bring back the Master.

No. I accidentally just said the truth! No, not really. I think the story’s sort of done. I thought what Russell [T. Davies] did with that was so brilliant, because I did think it was over. Once you’d lost Roger Delgado who was so brilliant, it was tough to keep it... it’s like Moriarty in Sherlock – yes, I know – you think, 'you’re a great master villain, you know what you do a lot, you lose! You’re always tremendously confident and then you’re humiliatingly defeated and you don’t remember that the next time you pop up with your ridiculous plan'. So no, the Doctor doesn’t really need an arch-enemy, so we’ll go for new ones. So, sorry John Simm.