Russell T Davies
- Writer and executive producer
Press clippings
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 2024WGGB 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 2023Sooz 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 2023Harry 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 2022Romantic 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 2021Lenny 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 2020Rufus 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 2014Charlie 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 2013Charlie 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