Curtis: 'I redrafted Doctor Who episode'

Richard Curtis has revealed that he was forced to rewrite scenes from his forthcoming Doctor Who episode.

Curtis - whose credits include Four Weddings And A Funeral and Blackadder - penned the story centred around Vincent van Gogh, the premise of which sees the Doctor (Matt Smith) and Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) travelling back in time to meet the artist before helping him battle both his inner and outer demons.

He told the Lancashire Evening Post: "I came up with the story and knew what form I wanted it to take, but then I was given all sorts of instructions in terms of what was happening with the Doctor and with Amy.

"I remember I was told, when I first handed in my first draft, the Doctor talked too much and that I should go back and watch some of the episodes and see that actually he was rather efficient in the way that he talked."

Curtis added: "I was told the beginning was too slow, that when he met Vincent it wasn't cute enough, so it was quite nice because when you're writing things all on your own it's quite lonely, you have to make so many of the decisions on your own. And it was nice being pushed around in the right direction and having a format."

'Vincent And The Doctor' airs on Saturday at 6.40pm on BBC One.

> Curtis wrote 'Who' with children