The IoS pink list 2008". The Independent on Sunday. 22 June 2008. Archived from the original on 30 May 2010 . Retrieved 24 July 2010. Detective chief inspector Carl Foster, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit, said: "I hope that Angela Taylor and Paul Cannon’s time behind bars is spent reflecting on their evil actions. Davies was in a relationship with Andrew Smith, a customs officer, between 1999 and Smith's death in 2018. [238] [239] They entered into a civil partnership on 1 December 2012, after Smith was diagnosed with a brain tumour from which he was given only a 3% chance of recovering. [240] Smith died on 29 September 2018. [241] Years and Years ends with a title card which dedicates the series to Smith. [242] Detective constable Jason Tinsey, who investigated the case, said: "Multiple children suffered years of abuse whilst in Meredith’s care. He took advantage of his position of trust and authority in the most horrific way imaginable, and stole the innocence of these young children.

During his tenure on Why Don't You?, Davies oversaw the production of a story that took place in Loch Ness. The story was the precursor for his first freelance children's project: Dark Season. The show, originally called The Adventuresome Three, would feature the Why Don't You? characters in a purely dramatic setting influenced by his childhood. He submitted the script to the head of CBBC, Anna Home, and Granada Television. Both companies were interested in producing the show with minor changes: Granada wished to produce it as one six-part serial, as opposed to Davies' plan of two three-part serials; and Home was interested in accepting the show on the condition it included a new cast of characters. He accepted Home's offer, and the show was allocated the budget and timeslot of Maid Marian and her Merry Men, which had been put on hiatus the year before. [16]

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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. Doctor Who's Russell T Davies saves family TV". The Telegraph. 28 March 2008. Archived from the original on 11 May 2018 . Retrieved 2 April 2018. Davies, Russell T (October 2008). "Russell T Davies". Writersroom. BBC. p 7. Archived from the original on 14 February 2009 . Retrieved 13 July 2009. When he creates new scripts, Davies considers the dénouement of a story to be representative of the work. He often formulates both the scene and its emotional impact early in the process, but writes the scenes last due to his belief that "[later scenes] can't exist if they aren't informed by where they've come from". [162] Davies is a strong advocate for the continued use of the cliffhanger ending and opposes advertising that sacrifices the impact of storytelling. In pursuit of his quest, he instructs editors to remove scenes from press copies of episodes he writes; cliffhangers were removed from the review copies of the Doctor Who episodes " Army of Ghosts", [163] " The Stolen Earth", [164] and the first part of " The End of Time", [165] and Rose Tyler's unadvertised appearance in " Partners in Crime" was excised. [166] In an interview with BBC News shortly after the transmission of episode "The Stolen Earth", he argued that the success of a popular television series is linked to how well producers can keep secrets and create a "live experience": [167]

RTS Programme Awards 2003". Royal Television Society. Archived from the original on 22 March 2009 . Retrieved 5 July 2011. Spencer, Samuel. "Years and Years on BBC title card: Who is Andrew Smith? Why is it dedicated to him?". Daily Express. Archived from the original on 23 June 2019 . Retrieved 23 June 2019. The Second Coming had been several years in the making and endured many rewrites from the first draft presented to Channel 4 in 2000, but retained its key concept of a depiction of the Second Coming of Christ with a humanity-centred deity. [53] [64] A major removal from the script, due to time constraints, was a long sequence titled "Night of the Demons": the main character, a shop assistant, Stephen Baxter, who discovers his divine lineage, takes over a hotel with his disciples and eventually encounters several of the hotel's employees which had been possessed by the Devil. Several similar sequences were removed to create a thriller set in the days before Judgement Day. [65] National TV Awards 2006 winners". BBC News. 31 October 2010. Archived from the original on 4 February 2009 . Retrieved 31 July 2010.Yes!” he roars. “His selfishness, and the fact that he thinks he’s so clever he can talk his way out of any situation. That’s me. All his worst faults are mine. People often say my lead characters are unlikable, and I think, well, I’m doing that on purpose, because we often are. Likable is very easy to write, isn’t it?” He prefers gay characters who are unlikable – not least because it subverts a trope in TV drama. “There’s often a feeling that the gay character should be the nice character. And I’m like, nobody worries about Tony Soprano, do they? But gay people have to be nice! I love ignoring that.”