Following rumours that Karen Gillan's character Amy Pond was going to be killed off, Stephen Moffat in Doctor Who Magazine said that fans worry too much, saying:
"I know this because I’ve been [one] since 1963."
"My favourite [rumour] is that this is the BBC’s cunning plan to reduce the number of episodes. Right. Okay ... It’s the BBC’s cunning plan to reduce the number of episode, by going to the extraordinary and fiendish lengths of . . . making exactly the same number of episodes quite honestly, you could go over that one a million times and it still wouldn’t work.
"My least favourite rumour: this is the BBC’s cunning (but slightly generous) plan to give me enough time to work on Sherlock as well. Okay...the BBC in their cunning and generosity have decided to reduce my workload by the devilishly clever stratagem of . . . making no difference to my workload whatsoever."
