Chris Chibnall

The papers feed the public interest but then the public interest demands more in the press and speculation can look like fact. ”

That kind of 'Lord of the Flies' brutality of being 11, it's a tough time. You're trying to figure out who you are, and who your friends are, and what your alliances are, and kids fall out all the time. ”

I've come from theatre and you have different productions of a text in theatre. It's not unusual. ”

There is very much a sense of different versions of storytelling within our 'Camelot' - who tells those stories, who creates them, who shifts them. ”

I think you can tell different types of stories within a 'Doctor Who' two-parter. ”

I mean, I'm always happy to be compared with Scorsese! ”

I don't ever want to be gratuitous, for the sake of being gratuitous, but when it serves the stories and the characters, it's nice to be able to do that, realistically and with credibility. You don't want to do it for the sake of it, or shoe-horn it in. But, it's a good tool to have in the toolbox. ”

The great thing about 'Camelot' is that it is an adult drama. ”

There have been so many different versions of the legend and of 'Camelot,' so what I wanted to do was strip it all back, and go back to the beginning and tell the story of Arthur, from the beginning of the relationship between Merlin and Arthur. ”

That's what I love about 'Doctor Who' - it takes you back to being the age you were when you first saw it. ”