He also wrote the miniseries Cambridge Spies and the television film Einstein and Eddington, as well as a reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth for the BBC's ShakespeaRe-Told series.
[11] Moffat took inspiration for the fictional drama from real-life revelations about British police officers who had formed long-term relationships with activists they were investigating while undercover, as well as from the London Metropolitan Police Service's secret surveillance of the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence.
[12] His drama series Your Honor, starring Bryan Cranston as a conflicted New Orleans judge, began its run on Showtime on 6 December 2020.
In 2022, it was announced that Moffat would be writing a new film called Scoop based on Prince Andrew's 2019 interview with Newsnight.
[13] In February 2024, it was reported that Moffat was writing a drama series about the contaminated blood scandal for ITV.