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Stephen Russell Davies OBE FRSL ( / ˈ d eɪ v ɪ s/ DAY-vis; born 27 April 1963), better known as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer whose works include Queer as Folk, Bob & Rose, The Second Coming, Casanova, the 2005 revival of the BBC One science fiction franchise Doctor Who, [1] Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Cucumber, A Very English Scandal, Years and Years, It's a Sin and Nolly.Among Doctor Who fans, his contribution to the show ranks as high as the show's co-creator Verity Lambert: in a 2009 poll of 6,700 Doctor Who Magazine readers, he won the "Greatest Contribution" award with 22.62% of the votes against Lambert's 22.49% share, [213] in addition to winning the magazine's 2005, 2006, and 2008 awards for the best writer of each series. [214] Ian Farrington, who commented on the 2009 "Greatest Contribution" poll, attributed Davies' popularity to his range of writing styles, from the epic " Doomsday" to the minimalistic "Midnight", and his ability to market the show to appeal to a wide audience. [213] Davies attempts to both create imagery and to provide a social commentary in his scripts; for example, he uses camera directions in his scripts more frequently than newer screenwriters to ensure that anyone who reads the script, especially the director, is able to "feel... the pace, the speed, the atmosphere, the mood, the gags, [and] the dread". His stage directions also create an atmosphere by their formatting and avoidance of the first person. [168] Although the basis of several of his scripts derive from previous concepts, he claims most concepts for storytelling have been already used, and instead tries to tell a relatively new and entertaining plot; for example, the Doctor Who episode " Turn Left" shares its concept most notably with the 1998 film Sliding Doors. Like how Sliding Doors examines two timelines based on whether Helen Quilley ( Gwyneth Paltrow) catches a London Underground train, Davies uses the choice of the Doctor's companion to turn left or right at a road intersection to depict either a world with the Doctor, as seen throughout the rest of the fourth series, or an alternate world without the Doctor, examined in its entirety within the episode. [169] The world without the Doctor creates a dystopia which he uses to provide a commentary on Nazi-esque fascism. [170] [171] Davies generally tries to make his scripts "quite detailed, but very succinct", and eschews the long character and set descriptions; instead, he limits himself to only three adjectives to describe a character and two lines to describe a set to allow the dialogue to describe the story instead. [172] The IoS Pink List 2012". The Independent on Sunday. 4 November 2012. Archived from the original on 4 May 2019 . Retrieved 25 April 2013. He was sentenced to seven years in prison and will be placed on the sex offenders' register for life. It's A Sin star Lydia West says her character is based on "inspiring" real-life person". Radio Times . Retrieved 24 January 2021.

Jeffrey, Morgan (22 January 2015). "Russell T Davies: Cucumber, Banana, Tofu and 15 years since Queer as Folk". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 26 January 2015 . Retrieved 29 January 2015.Campbell-Ngonga appeared at St Albans Crown Court on Tuesday, November 5, where he plead guilty and was sentenced to four years in prison. 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. Millie Gibson is the new Doctor Who companion, Ruby Sunday | Doctor Who". www.doctorwho.tv . Retrieved 18 November 2022. Chu, Henry (25 July 2017). " 'Queer as Folk,' 'Doctor Who' Showrunner to Receive Edinburgh Achievement Award". Variety. Archived from the original on 20 January 2018 . Retrieved 25 July 2017.

The first new series of Doctor Who featured eight scripts by Davies; the remainder were allocated to experienced dramatists and writers for the show's ancillary releases: Steven Moffat penned a two-episode story, and Mark Gatiss, Robert Shearman, and Paul Cornell each wrote one script. [85] Davies also approached his old friend Paul Abbott and Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling to write for the series; both declined due to existing commitments. Shortly after he secured writers for the show, Davies stated he had no intention of approaching writers from the old series; the only writer he would have wished to work with was Holmes, who died in May 1986. [85] Most of Davies' recognition came as a result of his work on Doctor Who. In 2005, Doctor Who won two Television Awards—Best Drama Series and the Pioneer Audience Award—and he was awarded the honorary Dennis Potter Award for writing. [185] He also received that year's BAFTA Cymru Siân Phillips Award for Outstanding Contribution to Network Television. [186] At the Edinburgh International Television Festival, he was awarded the accolade of "Industry Player of the Year" in 2006, [187] and he was announced as recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award in 2017. [188] [189] In 2007, Davies was nominated for the "Best Soap/Series" Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award—along with Chris Chibnall, Paul Cornell, Stephen Greenhorn, Steven Moffat, Helen Raynor, and Gareth Roberts—for their work on the third series of Doctor Who. [190] He was again nominated for two BAFTA Awards in 2009: a Television Award for his work on Doctor Who, [191] and the Television Craft Award for Best Writer, for the episode " Midnight". [192] Davies was nominated three times for competitive BAFTA Cymru awards due to his work on Doctor Who: in 2006, he was nominated for Best Screenwriter for the whole series; [193] in 2007, he won the same award for " Doomsday"; [194] and in 2009, he won the award again for "Midnight". [195] We have relentlessly pursued this investigation, using all our powers to bring offenders to justice. 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. [55] 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." [55] 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. [56]

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Under his tenure, Doctor Who won five consecutive National Television Awards between 2005 and 2010. [196] [197] [198] [199] [200] He has also been nominated for three Hugo Awards, all in the category of " Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form": in 2007, the story comprising " Army of Ghosts" and " Doomsday" was defeated by Steven Moffat's " The Girl in the Fireplace"; [201] in 2009, the episode " Turn Left" was defeated by Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog; [202] and in 2010, all three of his scripts which were eligible for the award, " The Next Doctor", the Davies– Roberts collaboration " Planet of the Dead", and the Davies– Ford collaboration " The Waters of Mars", were nominated: the award was won by "The Waters of Mars" and the other episodes took second and third place. [203] [204] His last nominations for working on the Doctor Who franchise came in 2010, when the first episode of Torchwood: Children of Earth was nominated for a BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Screenwriter, [205] and in 2011 when The Sarah Jane Adventures was nominated by BAFTA for the Best Children's Drama award. [206] Davies, Russell T (October 2008). "Russell T Davies". Writersroom. BBC. p 7. Archived from the original on 14 February 2009 . Retrieved 13 July 2009. Davies, Russell T. (15 September 2003). "Russell T Davies on Queer As Folk". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 17 January 2018 . Retrieved 16 January 2018.

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Big Finish adaptation of the 1997 Virgin New Adventures novel of the same name, adapted by Jonathan Morris. [247] On May 30, 2019, Campbell-Ngonga was stopped by officers after he was spotted acting suspiciously in Queens Road in Watford. 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. [98] 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. [99] He later reneged on his idea, as he believed Rose should stay off screen, and abandoned the idea even though it had been budgeted. [99] 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 real-life Jill is one of Davies’s oldest friends. Jill Nalder is an actor who spent 20 years in the chorus of Les Misérables and is now part of the WestEnders, a group that sing numbers from musicals on cruise ships. As a result of It’s a Sin, Nalder has written a memoir, Love from the Pink Palace, which will be published next year. Davies couldn’t be more proud of the woman who made him realise he had to tell this story.