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Russell T Davies

  • Writer and executive producer

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Katherine Ryan, Sue Perkins, Dara O Briain in Desert Island Discs Live

Radio 4 interview format Desert Island Discs is preparing to transfer to the live stage for celebratory shows, with Katherine Ryan, Sue Perkins and Dara O Briain amongst the guests booked.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd January 2024

WGGB joins Global Day of Solidarity in support of WGA strike

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain will today join writers and other workers around the world for 'Screenwriters Everywhere', a global day of solidarity and action. The WGGB protest takes place in London's Leicester Square from 1-2pm. WGGB President Sandi Toksvig OBE and WGGB Chair Lisa Holdsworth will come together with fellow writers including Jack Thorne, Russell T Davies, Alice Nutter and Simon Beaufoy, Dennis Kelly and many more in a show of solidarity from the UK.

Writers' Guild of Great Britain, 14th June 2023

Sooz Kempner to star in Doctor Who multiplatform story Doom's Day

Comedian Sooz Kempner has been signed up to be the face and voice of Doctor Who character Doom in Doom's Day, a multiplatform series which forms part of the sci-fi show's 60th anniversary celebrations.

British Comedy Guide, 21st March 2023

Harry Lawtey, Jessica Barden and Sophia Brown to star in You & Me

ITV has revealed the cast for You & Me, it's forthcoming romantic comedy series which focuses on three separate characters who have all experienced tragedies.

British Comedy Guide, 17th June 2022

Romantic comedy drama You & Me coming to ITV

ITV has commissioned a romantic comedy drama series. You & Me focuses on three separate characters who have all experienced tragedies.

British Comedy Guide, 18th March 2021

Lenny Henry to write ITV drama Three Little Birds

Lenny Henry is making Three Little Birds, an ITV drama series inspired by his mother's stories about leaving Jamaica in the 1950s.

British Comedy Guide, 10th December 2020

Rufus Hound cast in Channel 4's gay drama Cucumber

Rufus Hound has joined the cast of Russell T Davies's new series Cucumber.

Digital Spy, 18th July 2014

Charlie Brooker: Dialogue is two monologues clashing

One of the handiest screenwriting tips I've ever encountered is a quote from Russell T Davies in a book about the making of Doctor Who. "Dialogue is just two monologues clashing".

Charlie Brooker, The Guardian, 29th April 2013

Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe took time off from spewing cheery vitriol across the television schedules to interview writers about the craft of writing.

These were clearly writers that Brooker admired, so his interview technique was disconcertingly sympathetic. The end result was a masterclass from such luminaries as Russell T Davies, Paul Abbott, Tony Jordan and Graham Linehan. All of whom spoke wittily and winningly about the combination of prevarication, panic and perspiration that produces a television script.

Ironically, the most pertinent point of a fascinating 50 minutes was made by a writer who wasn't even present. Abbott quoted Jimmy McGovern on the ever prickly problem of presenting exposition in dialogue: 'I would rather be confused for ten minutes than bored for five seconds.'

Harry Venning, The Stage, 8th December 2008

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