Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter (DOCTOR WHO, 78)

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Davies was in a relationship with Andrew Smith, a customs officer, between 1999 and Smith's death in 2018. [237] [238] They entered into a civil partnership on 1 December 2012, after Smith was diagnosed with a brain tumour from which he was given only a 3% chance of recovering. [239] Smith died on 29 September 2018. [240] Years and Years ends with a title card which dedicates the series to Smith. [241] National Television Awards: the winners". The Daily Telegraph. 20 January 2010. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011 . Retrieved 31 July 2010.

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Davies, Russell T; Cook, Benjamin (14 January 2010). The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter (2nded.). BBC Books. ISBN 978-1-84607-861-3. By February 1998, when he completed the first draft for the series première, the series was known under its eventual title Queer as Folk. [38] The series emulates dramas such as Band of Gold in presenting realistic discussion on sexuality, as opposed to "one-sided" gay characters in soap operas such as EastEnders, and eschews "heavy-handed discussion" of issues such as HIV; the show instead focuses on the party scene on Canal Street. [39] Davies' work on Doctor Who has led to accolades out of the television industry. He features in the Pinc List of leading Welsh LGBT figures. [214] Davies, Russell T (October 2008). "Russell T Davies". Writersroom. BBC. p 7. Archived from the original on 14 February 2009 . Retrieved 13 July 2009. Berriman, Ian (18 September 2008). "Book Review: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale". SFX. Archived from the original on 19 April 2015 . Retrieved 18 June 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] Television: Drama Serial in 2004". Award Database. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original on 4 February 2015 . Retrieved 30 January 2015. a b "Russell T Davies on It's A Sin: 'We were all Aids deniers – then it got real' ". BBC News. 18 January 2021 . Retrieved 24 January 2021. 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 IoS pink list 2008". The Independent on Sunday. 22 June 2008. Archived from the original on 30 May 2010 . Retrieved 24 July 2010.

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Davies followed that with the miniseries Years and Years, a Red Production Company series for BBC One which starred Emma Thompson, Rory Kinnear and Russell Tovey. It focuses on an ordinary family in Manchester who experience massive political, economic, and technological changes over fifteen years as a fascist dictator, played by Thompson, takes over Britain. [132] It's a Sin [ edit ] Pixley, Andrew (14 August 2008). "The Stolen Earth/Journey's End". Doctor Who Magazine. Vol.The Doctor Who Companion: Series 4, no.Special Edition 20. Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Panini Comics. pp.126–145. Welcome to Torchwood". Doctor Who Confidential. Series 2. Episode 12. Cardiff. 1 July 2006. BBC. BBC Three.In 2018, Davies produced and wrote the screenplay for A Very English Scandal, an adaptation of the book of the same name about the Thorpe affair—a sex scandal which involved former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe—which starred Hugh Grant as Thorpe and Ben Whishaw as Thorpe's former lover Norman Scott. Davies' screenplay is more compassionate to Thorpe and Scott than previous narratives of the scandal, which he described as "history written by straight men". [130] For his writing on the series, Davies received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special in 2019. [131] By early 2004, the show had settled into a regular production cycle. Davies, Gardner, and BBC Controller of Continuing Drama Series Mal Young took posts as executive producers, and Phil Collinson, his old colleague from Granada, took the role of producer. [85] Davies' official position as showrunner combined the roles of head writer and executive producer and consisted of laying a skeletal plot for the entire series, holding "tone meetings" to correctly identify the tone of an episode, often described in one word—for example, the "tone word" for Moffat's " The Empty Child" was "romantic"—and overseeing all aspects of production. [85] During his tenure on Why Don't You?, Davies oversaw the production of a story that took place in Loch Ness. The story was the precursor for his first freelance children's project: Dark Season. The show, originally called The Adventuresome Three, would feature the Why Don't You? characters in a purely dramatic setting influenced by his childhood. He submitted the script to the head of CBBC, Anna Home, and Granada Television. Both companies were interested in producing the show with minor changes: Granada wished to produce it as one six-part serial, as opposed to Davies' plan of two three-part serials; and Home was interested in accepting the show on the condition it included a new cast of characters. He accepted Home's offer, and the show was allocated the budget and timeslot of Maid Marian and her Merry Men, which had been put on hiatus the year before. [15] Davies was taken on as a member of the BBC Wales children's department ( CBBC) in 1985 and given one-day contracts and commissions, such as illustrating for Why Don't You?. As he was only given three days of work per month by the BBC, he continued to freelance and volunteer for the Sherman Theatre. In 1986, he was approached by the Sunday Sport before its launch to provide a football-themed daily strip; he declined because he was concerned about the pornographic content of the newspaper. He submitted a script for Crossroads in response to an appeal for new writers; it was not used because the show was cancelled in 1987. He ultimately abandoned his graphic art career entirely when he realised in his early twenties that he enjoyed writing the dialogue of a comic more than creating the art. [8] Doctor Who's Russell T Davies saves family TV". The Telegraph. 28 March 2008. Archived from the original on 11 May 2018 . Retrieved 2 April 2018.