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After his partner developed cancer in late 2011, Davies returned to the UK. He co-created the CBBC science fantasy drama Wizards vs Aliens, and created Cucumber, a Channel 4 series about middle-aged gay men in the Manchester gay scene; Banana, an E4 series about young LGBT people in the Cucumber universe; and Tofu, an All 4 documentary series which discussed LGBT issues. Davies's later work for BBC One in the 2010s include A Midsummer Night's Dream, a television film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play; A Very English Scandal, a miniseries adaptation of John Preston's novel of the same name; and Years and Years, a drama series which follows a Manchester family affected by political, economic, and technological changes to Britain over 15 years. Davies returned to Channel 4 for a third time in 2021 as creator of It's a Sin, a semi-autobiographical drama about the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s. Nation.Cymru Staff (26 January 2021). " 'It's A Sin' screenwriter Russell T Davies speaks out on Welsh independence". Nation.Cymru . Retrieved 22 March 2021. Pink List 2013: National Treasures". The Independent on Sunday. 13 October 2013. Archived from the original on 24 November 2013 . Retrieved 25 November 2013. In the time near his mother's death, Davies returned to Swansea several times and reflected on the role of family. During one visit, he realised he had not yet written a series set in Wales; hence, he created a series about a family who discovers they own the entire city of Swansea. [68] The Vivaldi Inheritance, later renamed Mine All Mine, was based on the tale of the Welsh pirate Robert Edwards and his descendants' claim to 77 acres (310,000m 2) of real estate in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The series was a departure from his trend of experimental social commentary; it was instead designed to be a mainstream comedy which utilised Welsh actors: Davies and Red Productions even planned a cameo appearance by Academy Award-winning Swansea-born Catherine Zeta-Jones. [68]

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Previous Recipients". Honorary Fellows. Cardiff University. Archived from the original on 8 October 2014 . Retrieved 5 July 2011. Doctor Who: David Tennant and Catherine Tate to return". BBC News. 15 May 2022 . Retrieved 5 November 2022.Whilst being interviewed about It's a Sin on ITV Wales, Davies was asked if he was "indy-curious" about Welsh independence. [242] He replied that he wasn't sure the current Senedd was one worthy of handing power over to yet, but that the government at Whitehall did not care about Welsh issues and that Wales should at least start looking into fending for itself. [243] [244] Production credits [ edit ] Series

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Martin, Dan (17 January 2015). "Russell T Davies: 'Equality doesn't mean happiness' ". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 25 January 2015 . Retrieved 29 January 2015. The Second Coming had been several years in the making and endured many rewrites from the first draft presented to Channel 4 in 2000, but retained its key concept of a depiction of the Second Coming of Christ with a humanity-centred deity. [52] [63] A major removal from the script, due to time constraints, was a long sequence titled "Night of the Demons": the main character, a shop assistant, Stephen Baxter, who discovers his divine lineage, takes over a hotel with his disciples and eventually encounters several of the hotel's employees which had been possessed by the Devil. Several similar sequences were removed to create a thriller set in the days before Judgement Day. [64] In 2002, he met with the BBC to discuss the revival of the show and producing The Second Coming; the BBC were unable to commit to either, and he again declined to work for them. [62] After the BBC rejected The Second Coming, Shindler proposed the series should be pitched to ITV. Despite the story's controversial message, the critical success of Bob & Rose encouraged the channel to commission the series for broadcast. [62] Nededog, Jethro (6 July 2011). " 'Torchwood' Creator Developing New Showtime Drama Series". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 10 August 2011 . Retrieved 18 June 2022. The first episode of the revived Doctor Who, "Rose", aired on 26 March 2005 and received 10.8million viewers and favourable critical reception. Four days after the transmission of "Rose", Tranter approved a Christmas special and a second series. The press release was overshadowed by a leaked announcement that Christopher Eccleston would leave the role after one series; in response, David Tennant was announced as Eccleston's replacement. [89]

Channel 4 Crowned Top TV Network". BBC News. 28 August 2006. Archived from the original on 11 January 2009 . Retrieved 24 July 2010. Aitkenhead, Decca (27 May 2016). "Russell T Davies: 'It sounds like a sex version of Midsummer Night's Dream. And it's not' ". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 May 2016 . Retrieved 27 May 2016. Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 7 May 2011 . Retrieved 19 February 2011.

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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] 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. Century Falls is conceptually much darker than its predecessor Dark Season and his later work, which Davies attributed to a trend that inexperienced writers "get off on the dark stuff": [19] In a BAFTA interview with Davies, Home recalled she "very nearly got into trouble because it did actually push at the boundaries which some of the powers-that-be would rather not have been pushed". The series offered a sense of realism in its protagonist, who is not heroic and aspirational, has poor social skills, and is bluntly described by Ben as a "fat girl". [16] Century Falls was the last script he wrote for CBBC for fourteen years. He had begun to formulate another successor: The Heat of the Sun, a series set over Christmas 1999 and New Year's Day 2000 that would have included the concepts of psychic powers and world domination. [20] Children's Ward [ edit ] a b Fullerton, Huw (24 September 2021). "Russell T Davies to return as Doctor Who showrunner". Radio Times . Retrieved 24 September 2021. Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts (2005) (a collection of Series 1 scripts by Davies, as well as Steven Moffat, Robert Shearman, Paul Cornell and Mark Gatiss)On 1 June 1987, Davies made his first and only appearance as a television presenter on Play School alongside regular presenter Chloë Ashcroft. Why Don't You? line producer Peter Charlton suggested that he would "be good on camera" and advised him to take his career public. Davies was granted the opportunity for sporadic appearances over a period of six months; he hosted only one episode as a storytelling illustrator before he walked off the set and commented he was "not doing that again". The appearance remains an in-joke in the industry, and the recordings were invariably requested for wrap parties Davies attended. [9] Davies started planning a second series for Dark Season, which followed a similar structure. The first half of the series would take part in the arcade mentioned in the novelisation, and the second would feature the appearance of psychic twins and the re-emergence of the villain Eldritch. The concepts were transferred to its spiritual successor, Century Falls, which was produced in 1993 at the request of Dark Season director Colin Cant. The series primarily used the "psychic twins" concept and was set in an isolated village based on those in the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors. [18] Davies has received recognition for his work since his career as a children's television writer. Davies' first BAFTA award nominations came in 1993 when he was nominated for the "Best Children's Programme (Fiction)" Television Award for his work on Children's Ward. [177] Children's Ward was nominated for the Children's Drama award in 1996 and won the same award in 1997. [178] [179] His next critically successful series was Bob & Rose; it was nominated for a Television Award for Best Drama Serial and won two British Comedy Awards for Best Comedy Drama and Writer of the Year. [180] [181] The Second Coming was nominated for the same Television Award in 2004. [182] His work on The Second Coming earned him a nomination for a Royal Television Society award. [183] Spilsbury, Tom (23 June 2010). "The Sarah Jane Adventures series four: titles revealed!". Doctor Who Magazine. No.423. Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Panini Comics. p.6.

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