He also wrote two episodes of Doctor Who season 7 part 2, which aired back in 2013 and starred Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman.
Cross was speaking with us for The Radio Times Writers' Room, our video interview series in which we get to know what makes screenwriters tick, when he was asked to reflect on that episode, its reception, and in particular how the speech has been adopted by the fandom.
"Episode 2 with a new companion is always very difficult, because the companion has to learn about the Doctor, but we already know about the doctor. And Steven wanted something kind of optimistic.
"There was a full page story in The Sun – Worst Episode Ever. And because it was Doctor Who and because it was so special to me, it threw me into a spiral of misery."
View oEmbed on the source websiteHe continued: "And it was literally a tweet. Someone had tweeted it, The Sun had picked it up, it was like a page three story. And all I could think of was that my sister, who's my imaginary audience, my sister's gonna read this, and this is what she's gonna think of my Doctor Who.
"There's an old saying which is, ‘You can allow a bad review to spoil breakfast, but not lunch’. And that's my basic attitude is, ‘Oh yeah, that makes you feel s**t, you move on’.
"But the Doctor Who thing, it knocked me sideways. For weeks, I was really, really, really unhappy. So to see that speech attain the place it has is... vindication! It's better than revenge. It’s what we want."
While chatting for The Radio Times Writers' Room, Cross also spoke about his other work, including on The Iris Affair, which stars Niamh Algar as an enigmatic genius called Iris.
Neil Cross's interview for The Radio Times Writers' Room will be available to watch in full on Thursday 16th October.
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