After Simon Nye’s storming success with Amy’s Choice, Moff’s other new writer taken from the sitcom stable – Richard Curtis, no less – gets a crack tonight with Vincent and the Doctor, which all previews point to being excellent.  Why don’t you tell us what you reckon and we’ll take it from there, shall we?

I have a confession to make: the name “Chris Chibnall” does not make my blood run, erm, cold.

Maybe it’s my reservations about judging any writer’s work when RTD was known for rewriting nearly every single script anyway. Maybe it’s because I’ve blanked out the entirety of 42. Or maybe it’s because Chibnall was responsible for one of my favourite episodes of Life on Mars. Whatever the reason, I wasn’t going into this pair of episodes with an immense sense of dread.