Moffat also promised the programmes biggest ever cliffhanger – "an earth-shattering climax", is to come, whilst speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.
Next year's 13-part series, the sixth since Doctor Who returned in 2005, will run for seven episodes and then return in the autumn for another six.
Moffat said the Easter "mid-season finale" would be a "game-changing cliffhanger".
He added that next year's Doctor Who would run as two separate series, allowing him to double the number of "event episodes" in the new run, and meant fans would never be more than a few months away from the next instalment of the hit BBC1 show.
Speaking about his plans for the show Moffat explained:"What I love about this idea is that when kids see Doctor Who go off the air, they will be noticeably taller when it comes back. It's an age for children. With an Easter series, an autumn series and a Christmas special, you are never going to be more than few months from the new series of Doctor Who.
"Tart that I am, we will now have two first nights and two finales, twice as many event episodes as we had before."
Meanwhile when we caught up with Moffat and Karen Gillan, who plays the doctor's assistant Amy Pond, we asked; if they could be a TV character for the day who would they be and why?
Being the passionate showrunner that he is Moffat replied: "I would obviously obviously be Doctor Who. What other choice is there? He can be everybody else!"
Meanwhile, the beautiful Karen Gillan opted for the slightly unusual option of David Brent from The Office, asking us "Don't you think we're similar?"
Gillan revealed the monsters she finds scariest on the show are: "the weeping angels – so far; they might be topped in the new series."
She explained "It's because you don't actually see them do anything so it's kind of left to your imagination which can run wild and it involves the dark and it involves looking at the thing you're very scared of an I just think it's a really genius invention."
Well, at least it won't be the Eurovision to blame for the break in the shows run next year!!
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