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Big Bets On Lydia West As The New Doctor Who Caused Market Crash
With the knowledge that Russell T Davies likes to cast Doctor Whos from people he has previously worked with, it appears that someone went all in, and made big bets One bookmaker pulled the book on Doctor Who, and the others followed suit Indeed, when the books did reopen in some bookies, Lydia West's name[...]
Doctor Who Always Danced Around the LGBTQ Question
A few days ago, looking at the news that Russell T Davies is returning to be the showrunner of Doctor Who from 2023 onwards, Bleeding Cool reported that the odds on the next Doctor Who to replace Jodie Whittaker and Jo Martin in the role, had dramatically shifted And that current bookmakers' favourite by far was Olly Alexander, even though[...]
Doctor Who Always Danced Around the LGBTQ Question
With the news that Russell T Davies is returning to be the showrunner of Doctor Who from 2023 onwards, the odds on the next Doctor Who to replace Jodie Whittaker and Jo Martin in the role, have dramatically shifted And the current favourite by far is Olly Alexander, even though his agent had previously denied such[...]
The Fourteenth Doctor And More Changes Coming For Doctor Who
So I've talked in some detail to them about how it's been made since it came back. "I thought Russell T Davies, and then Steven Moffat, have done a fantastic job And that's, I think, why there's still fans discovering my era Without the programme having come back in such a successful form, I think that[...]
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But while may have been a huge, well-received moment for many within the LGBTQ+ community, Doctor Who writer and ex-showrunner Russell T Davies (Queer as Folk, It's a Sin) isn't nearly as impressed. Loki (Image: Marvel Studios) Speaking at a virtual Pride month panel for Swansea University, Davies took issue with the streaming service in particular and[...]
Doctor Who: Big Finish to Produce Long-Lost Russell T. Davies Story
The full cast audio version is expanded from the original script into two episodes and is co-written by Russell T Davies and Scott Handcock. Colin Baker and Bonnie Langford in "Doctor Who: Lost Stories – Mind of the Hodiac", Big Finish, photo (c) Tony Whitmore Davies had this to say about the news: "I was preparing for[...]
Russell T Davies' Its A Sin Breaks All 4 Streaming Records
We've mentioned Russell T Davies' new TV series It's A Sin on Channel 4, a kind-of cross between Queer As Folk and Our Friends In The North And delighted in its recreation of a scene from eighties Doctor Who for one of its characters to get cast as a bit part Channel 4 now reports[...]
Doctor Who (Image: BBC Studios)
The whole science fiction world is so creative and so money-making right now, I think your wildest dreams can come true," Davies explained. Didn't have space for this in my interview (also: bit niche) but here's Russell T Davies' vision of an MCU-style future for #DoctorWho, complete with David Tennant/Matt Smith team-up and – the petition[...]
Russell T Davies Filmed New Doctor Who Dalek Scenes For "It's A Sin"
Russell T Davies may be best known as the man who brought back Doctor Who to the BBC, cast Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant as the Doctor, and brought Billie Piper, Freema Agyeman, Jack Barrowman and Catherine Tate into the TARDIS But he is also known as the writer and creator of several major television shows[...]
Doctor Who: Russell T. Davies Tweets About His First Who Script
In preparation for today's tweetalong, I went through some old papers to find the script and found… the VERY FIRST DOCTOR WHO SCRIPT I ever wrote!! On a manual typewriter! In 1985! 1986? Sixth Doctor and Mel! #SantasARobot pic.twitter.com/Kq4IEph25K — Russell T Davies (@russelldavies63) December 18, 2020 "In preparation for today's tweet-a-long, I went through some old[...]
Doctor Who "The Runaway Bride" (Image: BBC)
Calling to Twitter… David Tennant! #SantasARobot pic.twitter.com/1Pm2hS79oj — Russell T Davies (@russelldavies63) December 18, 2020 In "Revolution of the Daleks," the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) is locked away in a space prison, leaving Captain Jack (John Barrowman), Yaz (Mandip Gill), and series-departing Graham (Bradley Walsh) and Ryan (Tosin Cole) to save the Earth from the machinations of a[...]