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Gripping new drama Years & Years, from Russell T Davies, set for BBC One". BBC Media Centre. BBC. 4 June 2018. Archived from the original on 26 May 2019 . Retrieved 6 June 2019. Dark Season and Century Falls [ edit ] Dark Season was a breakthrough role for actress Kate Winslet. [14] The IoS Pink List 2012". The Independent on Sunday. 4 November 2012. Archived from the original on 4 May 2019 . Retrieved 25 April 2013. Let's start the movement': Russell T Davies reveals views on Welsh independence". The National. 26 January 2021. Fullerton, Huw. "Russell T Davies has created new incarnations of the Doctor beyond Jodie Whittaker". Radio Times . Retrieved 24 September 2021.

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Pinc List 2017". Wales Online. 19 August 2017. Archived from the original on 20 August 2017 . Retrieved 20 August 2017. Big Finish announce production of Doctor Who: Damaged Goods". Big Finish. 24 July 2014. Archived from the original on 8 September 2014 . Retrieved 8 September 2014. Shaffi, Sarah; Knight, Lucy (12 July 2022). "Adjoa Andoh, Russell T Davies and Michaela Coel elected to Royal Society of Literature". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 November 2022. In 1994, Davies relinquished all of his producing jobs, and was offered a scriptwriting role on the late-night soap opera Revelations, created by him, Tony Wood, and Brian B. Thompson. The series was a tongue-in-cheek deconstruction of organised religion, and featured his first overtly homosexual character: a lesbian vicar portrayed by Sue Holderness, who came out of the closet in a two-hander episode with Carole Nimmons. [25]National Television Awards: Winners in full". The Daily Telegraph. 12 April 2008. Archived from the original on 23 January 2010 . Retrieved 31 July 2010. a b Pierse, Alison (2010). "A Broken Tradition: British Telefantasy and Children's Television in the 1980s and 1990s". Visual Culture in Britain. Taylor & Francis. 11 (1): 109–124. doi: 10.1080/14714780903509888. ISSN 1471-4787. S2CID 191498539.

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It's a Sin, began filming on 7 October 2019—under the working title of Boys [133]—and completed filming on 31 January 2020. [134] The series, produced by Red Productions for Channel 4, is a dramatised retrospective of the HIV/AIDS crisis during the 1980s, focusing on the men "living in the bedsits", as opposed to films such as Pride, which focused on gay activists. Davies notes the stories about the politics of the crisis and the virus itself has been told, but not those about the early victims of the virus itself. [135] British Comedy Awards 2001". The Past Winners. British Comedy Awards. Archived from the original on 20 August 2008 . Retrieved 5 July 2011. RTS Programme Awards 2003". Royal Television Society. Archived from the original on 22 March 2009 . Retrieved 5 July 2011.In August 2003, the BBC had resolved the legal confusion over production rights which had surfaced as a result of the jointly produced Universal Studios–BBC– 20th Century Fox 1996 Doctor Who film, and the Controller of BBC One Lorraine Heggessey and Controller of Drama Commissioning Jane Tranter approached Gardner and Davies to create a revival of the series to air in a primetime slot on Saturday nights, as part of their plan to devolve production to its regional bases. By mid-September, they accepted the deal to produce the series alongside Casanova. [82] Doctor Who: Manchester actress Yasmin Finney to join show". BBC News. 17 May 2022 . Retrieved 5 November 2022. The workload of managing three separate shows prompted Davies to delegate writing tasks for Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures to other writers so he could focus on writing Doctor Who. [97] After Billie Piper's departure as Rose Tyler in the second series finale " Doomsday", he suggested a third spin-off, Rose Tyler: Earth Defence, a compilation of annual bank holiday specials which followed Rose and a parallel universe version of Torchwood. [98] He later reneged on his idea, as he believed Rose should stay off screen, and abandoned the idea even though it had been budgeted. [98] The Writer's Tale, and writing the fourth series [ edit ] Davies at a book signing for The Writers Tale in Waterstone's, the Trafford Centre, Greater Manchester, on 9 October 2008 The 100 most powerful people in British culture: 41-60". The Telegraph. 18 March 2017. Archived from the original on 22 May 2018 . Retrieved 2 April 2018.

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Elledge, John (24 July 2014). "Gayness, gak and Gallifrey: Russell T Davies' 1996 Doctor Who novel is being dramatised, and it's amazing". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 8 September 2014 . Retrieved 8 September 2014. Russell T Davies". The Guardian. 14 July 2008. Archived from the original on 4 December 2013 . Retrieved 24 July 2010. Jeffries, Stuart (20 October 2007). "I can be very bolshie". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016 . Retrieved 13 December 2016. Davies stepped down from the show's production in 2009 along with Gardner and Collinson, and finished his tenure with four special length episodes. His departure from the show was announced in May 2008, alongside a press release which named Steven Moffat as his successor. [110] His role in late 2008 was split between writing the 2009 specials and preparing for the transition between his and Moffat's production team; one chapter of The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter discusses plans between him, Gardner, and Tennant to announce Tennant's departure live during ITV's National Television Awards in October 2008. [111] His final full script for Doctor Who was finished in the early morning of 4 March 2009, and filming of the episode closed on 20 May 2009. [112] [113] To simulate a classic love story, the plot required antagonists, in the form of Bob's best friend and fellow teacher Holly Vance and Rose's boyfriend Andy Lewis ( Daniel Ryan). While Andy, named after Davies' boyfriend Andrew Smith, was a minor character and departed in the third episode, Holly featured throughout the entirety of the series. [54] Bob & Rose thus followed a similar format to Queer as Folk, in particular, the triumvirate of main characters composed of a couple and an outsider who lived in contemporary Manchester, and inverted the traditional " coming out" story by focusing on Bob's uncharacteristic attraction to Rose; Bob describes his sexual life by simply speaking the line "I fancy men. And her." [54] The series was similar to the Kevin Smith film Chasing Amy (1997), as they both portrayed a romance between a straight character and gay character and the resulting ostracism from the couple's social circles, much like The Second Coming shared its concept with Smith's 1999 film Dogma. [55]Davies attended Tycoch Primary School in Sketty and enrolled at Olchfa School aged 11. In his first year, the main school buildings were closed for rebuilding after inspectors discovered the high alumina cement used in construction had caused other public buildings to collapse. Lessons were instead held in portable buildings, which influenced Davies' imagination to create mystery, science-fiction, and conspiracy thriller stories about the main building. He also immersed himself in books such as Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence and The Crystal Mouse by Babs H. Deal; the latter influenced him so much he could "see it echoing in anything" he wrote. [3] At age 14, he auditioned for and joined the newly formed West Glamorgan Youth Theatre Company (WGYTC). The group's founder and director, Godfrey Evans, considered him to be "a total all-rounder" who was talented and popular with the other students. Working with the group allowed him to define his sexual identity, and he embarked on a several-month relationship with fellow youth actor Rhian Morgan. He later came out as homosexual in his teenage years. [4] Previous Recipients". Honorary Fellows. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on 8 October 2014 . Retrieved 5 July 2011. Shortly after the transmission of Mine All Mine, the BBC commissioned Davies to produce the revival of Doctor Who, which completed his decade-long quest to return the series to the airwaves. [72] At the time, he was developing two scripts: the first, a cinematic adaptation of the Charles Ingram Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? scandal, was cancelled after he accepted the Doctor Who job; [73] and the second, a dramatisation of the life of the Venetian adventurer and lover Giacomo Casanova, was his next show with Red Productions. [74]