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Most of Davies' recognition came as a result of his work on Doctor Who. In 2005, Doctor Who won two Television Awards—Best Drama Series and the Pioneer Audience Award—and he was awarded the honorary Dennis Potter Award for writing. [184] He also received that year's BAFTA Cymru Siân Phillips Award for Outstanding Contribution to Network Television. [185] At the Edinburgh International Television Festival, he was awarded the accolade of "Industry Player of the Year" in 2006, [186] and he was announced as recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award in 2017. [187] [188] In 2007, Davies was nominated for the "Best Soap/Series" Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award—along with Chris Chibnall, Paul Cornell, Stephen Greenhorn, Steven Moffat, Helen Raynor, and Gareth Roberts—for their work on the third series of Doctor Who. [189] He was again nominated for two BAFTA Awards in 2009: a Television Award for his work on Doctor Who, [190] and the Television Craft Award for Best Writer, for the episode " Midnight". [191] Davies was nominated three times for competitive BAFTA Cymru awards due to his work on Doctor Who: in 2006, he was nominated for Best Screenwriter for the whole series; [192] in 2007, he won the same award for " Doomsday"; [193] and in 2009, he won the award again for "Midnight". [194] 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. Let's start the movement': Russell T Davies reveals views on Welsh independence". The National. 26 January 2021. National TV Awards 2005 winners". BBC News. 25 October 2005. Archived from the original on 11 October 2020 . Retrieved 31 July 2010.

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Television Craft: Writer in 2009". Award Database. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 30 January 2015. Like other script writers during Doctor Who 's original tenure, several of Davies' scripts are influenced by his personal politics. Marc Edward DiPaolo of Oklahoma City University observes that Davies usually espouses a "left-leaning" view through his scripts. [175] Beyond religion and sexuality, Davies most notably satirises the United States under George W. Bush on Doctor Who: the Slitheen in " Aliens of London" and " World War Three" and Henry van Statten in " Dalek" were portrayed as sociopathic capitalists; the Daleks under his tenure echoed contemporary American conservatives in their appearances, from religious fundamentalists in " The Parting of the Ways" to imperialists in " Daleks in Manhattan" and " Evolution of the Daleks"; and in " The Sound of Drums", a parody of Bush is murdered by the Master ( John Simm), who was presented in the story as a Prime Minister reminiscent of Tony Blair. [175] Other targets of satire in his Doctor Who scripts include Fox News, News Corporation, and the 24-hour news cycle in " The Long Game", plastic surgery and consumer culture in " The End of the World", obesity and alternative medicine in " Partners in Crime", and racism and paranoia in " Midnight". [175] Recognition [ edit ] Television: Drama Serial in 2002". Award Database. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original on 4 February 2015 . Retrieved 30 January 2015. In 2018, Davies produced and wrote the screenplay for A Very English Scandal, an adaptation of the book of the same name about the Thorpe affair—a sex scandal which involved former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe—which starred Hugh Grant as Thorpe and Ben Whishaw as Thorpe's former lover Norman Scott. Davies' screenplay is more compassionate to Thorpe and Scott than previous narratives of the scandal, which he described as "history written by straight men". [130] For his writing on the series, Davies received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special in 2019. [131]Russell T Davies". The Independent on Sunday. 28 June 2009. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013 . Retrieved 24 July 2010. Davies, Russell T; Gardner, Julie (27 December 2009). "The End of Time Part One". Doctor Who: The Commentaries. Season 1. Episode 17. BBC. BBC 7. Watts, Laurence (5 December 2011). "Interview: Russell T Davies on shelving US projects, his partner's cancer diagnosis and coming home". Pink News. Archived from the original on 7 December 2011 . Retrieved 5 December 2011. To simulate a classic love story, the plot required antagonists, in the form of Bob's best friend and fellow teacher Holly Vance and Rose's boyfriend Andy Lewis ( Daniel Ryan). While Andy, named after Davies' boyfriend Andrew Smith, was a minor character and departed in the third episode, Holly featured throughout the entirety of the series. [54] Bob & Rose thus followed a similar format to Queer as Folk, in particular, the triumvirate of main characters composed of a couple and an outsider who lived in contemporary Manchester, and inverted the traditional " coming out" story by focusing on Bob's uncharacteristic attraction to Rose; Bob describes his sexual life by simply speaking the line "I fancy men. And her." [54] The series was similar to the Kevin Smith film Chasing Amy (1997), as they both portrayed a romance between a straight character and gay character and the resulting ostracism from the couple's social circles, much like The Second Coming shared its concept with Smith's 1999 film Dogma. [55]

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Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 7 May 2011 . Retrieved 19 February 2011. 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. Davies, Russell T; Cook, Benjamin (25 September 2008). The Writer's Tale (1sted.). BBC Books. ISBN 978-1-84607-571-1.Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale: Russell T. Davies: 9781846075711". Book Depository. Archived from the original on 16 January 2018 . Retrieved 16 January 2018. Davies stepped down from the show's production in 2009 along with Gardner and Collinson, and finished his tenure with four special length episodes. His departure from the show was announced in May 2008, alongside a press release which named Steven Moffat as his successor. [110] His role in late 2008 was split between writing the 2009 specials and preparing for the transition between his and Moffat's production team; one chapter of The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter discusses plans between him, Gardner, and Tennant to announce Tennant's departure live during ITV's National Television Awards in October 2008. [111] His final full script for Doctor Who was finished in the early morning of 4 March 2009, and filming of the episode closed on 20 May 2009. [112] [113] Davies followed that with the miniseries Years and Years, a Red Production Company series for BBC One which starred Emma Thompson, Rory Kinnear and Russell Tovey. It focuses on an ordinary family in Manchester who experience massive political, economic, and technological changes over fifteen years as a fascist dictator, played by Thompson, takes over Britain. [132] It's a Sin [ edit ]

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Horwell, Veronica (4 October 2008). "You. Would. Make. A. Good. Dalek". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013 . Retrieved 3 February 2010. Russell T Davies". The Guardian. 14 July 2008. Archived from the original on 4 December 2013 . Retrieved 24 July 2010. Davies, Russell T (2006). Afterword. Doctor Who: The Inside Story. By Russell, Gary. BBC Books. ISBN 978-0563486497.Price, Karen (22 January 2011). "Creating the BBC's Baker Boys". Wales Online. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013 . Retrieved 14 November 2011.

Millie Gibson is the new Doctor Who companion, Ruby Sunday | Doctor Who". www.doctorwho.tv . Retrieved 18 November 2022.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) Kelly, Mark. "2009 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form– 2009 Hugo Awards". The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards. Locus. Archived from the original on 26 March 2009 . Retrieved 24 July 2010.