Russell T Davies on his Cucumber pride, and his ratings disappointment
Cucumber won Russell T Davies a BAFTA: but he laments the fact that it didn’t get the hoped-for ratings…
Cucumber won Russell T Davies a BAFTA: but he laments the fact that it didn’t get the hoped-for ratings…
Russell T Davies has been doing some interviews, to help promote a brand new book of Time Lord poetry, that he’s provided the illustrations for. It’s a lovely book, that’s on sale now. As part of his interview tour, he gave an interview to Doctor Who megafan Frank Skinner, on the latter’s Absolute Radio show. … >
The dust has settled on the casting of Jodie Whittaker as the new Doctor in Doctor Who now, and she’s going to start filming for series 11 of the show before the year is out (and, of course, we’ll see her for the first time in the role on Christmas Day). Ahead of the announcement … >
Big Finish Productions has picked up the Torchwood baton with the first ‘Series 5’ entry, here’s our review of Torchwood: Aliens Among Us Part 1. With no further television adventures on the horizon, and 2011’s Miracle Day now a distant memory, Big Finish have brought us a new audio series styled as Torchwood Series 5. … >
Stars of screens large and small Ben Whishaw and Hugh Grant will star in BBC One’s A Very English Scandal, written by Russell T Davies and directed by Stephen Frears.
As per the announcement a month ago, Russell T Davies has now collected his Outstanding Achievement Award from the Edinburgh Television Festival. As reported by Doctor Who News, he gave a speech that covered just a breath of what he’d done: “I have worked with Daleks, Casanova, I’ve worked with gays, I’ve worked with Penelope … >
The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine has a lovely feature about the upcoming book, Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection Of Time Lord Verse. James Goss has written the words, and Russell T Davies has illustrated it. And the pair are both interviewed about the project. It’s a feature well worth reading. At … >
The finale of Doctor Who series 10 – The Doctor Falls – wasn’t short on references, callbacks and moments of geeky joy. But it turns out too that there’s one that many of us may have missed first time around…
Another Russell T. Davies show is making the jump across the channel. Or heading back across the channel, depending on which way you look at it.
Russell T. Davies has let slip that he knows who will be replacing Peter Capaldi.