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Russell T Davies is making a return to flagship BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who as showrunner, 12 years after he left the role, the BBC has announced.

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Russell T Davies delivered a powerful acceptance speech after winning a National Television Award for his groundbreaking miniseries, It's A Sin.The thought-provoking Channel 4 drama, which starred Years and Years frontman Olly Alexander as lead character Ritchie Tozer, scooped Best New Drama at the 2021 NTAs. Welsh TV producer and screenwriter Russell, 58, took to the stage to accept his award at London's O2, and gave a beautiful speech as he was joined on-stage by the show's cast and crew.

Related: It's a Sin boss Russell T Davies reveals surprise twists from missing episodeRussell T Davies' groundbreaking and heartbreaking Channel 4 drama It's a Sin, starring Olly Alexander, won the Media Moment award. The series had a huge number of viewers on the channel and All4, and led to a record number of people getting HIV tests.

It’s A Sin receiving several nods.Russell T.

It’s A Sin creator Russell T.

Russell T. Davies isn’t that impressed with Loki‘s bisexual revelation.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMiramax and Amazon melodrama “Uncle Frank,” and HBO Max’s AIDS-themed series “It’s a Sin” dominated awards at the 60th annual Monte-Carlo TV Festival.Set in the early 1970s in North Carolina, “Uncle Frank” won best film, best creator and best actor for Paul Bettany who stars as a gay man forced to confront the Southern family to whom he’s stayed closeted.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorHBO Max’s “It’s a Sin” offers American audiences a glimpse into the AIDS crisis as seen through British eyes.Russell T Davies’ four-part series, which follows the residents of the Pink Palace in the early 1980s, is anchored in love, fear, grief and shame, and the soundtrack of the stories are iconic needle drops from the era.

Pride Month, Showtime is making over 50 hours of LGBTQ+ content available to watch or stream for free throughout the entire month of June. Among the titles included are the first seasons of the groundbreaking series  and . A remake of the British original created by Russell T.

“It was something I was passionate about because in many ways, things don’t change and it’s not as if our society is completely sorted,” It’s a Sin creator Russell T Davies said of the HBO Max miniseries that focusing on the fatal devastation of AIDS in the UK in the 1980s.

Elton John and Years & Years‘ Olly Alexander teamed up for a cover of Pet Shop Boys‘ ‘It’s A Sin’ at the BRIT Awards 2021 tonight – watch below.After teasing the live collaboration on social media yesterday (May 11), the pair took to the O2 Arena for a spectacular performance of the 1987 single – which inspired the title of Russell T Davies’ recent drama, starring Alexander.A studio version of the joint cover – produced by Stuart Price (Madonna, The Killers, Scissor Sisters) and the Pet Shop

It’s A Sin star and Years & Years frontman Olly Alexander has revealed that he was the only person to audition for the role of Ritchie in the record-breaking Channel 4 drama.Alexander played Ritchie Tozer in the show, which chronicles the lives of gay friends living in London during the ’80s Aids crisis and has become Channel 4’s most-binged series of all time since its release.In a new interview on This Morning, Alexander revealed how the show’s creator Russell T Davies earmarked him for the

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Will Thorne Staff WriterAfter presenting a list of hot TV series with the grim central trend of “we may survive” last year, the folks at The Wit identified “we are all survivors” as the main theme running through this year’s Fresh TV fiction selection.Presented at MipTV by Wit CEO and co-founder Virginia Mouseler, the 2021 selection is headlined by Russell T.

groundbreaking British LGBTQ-focused series from creator Russell T.

“Queer as Folk” is back!

Peacock has handed Stephen Dunn’s reboot of British drama Queer As Folk a series order.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla “Queer as Folk,” the groundbreaking Russell T Davies series from the ’90s about three clubgoing men in Manchester’s gay village, will be reimagined by creator Stephen Dunn and Universal Cable Productions for Peacock.The network announced a straight-to-series order of the reboot, which is described as a modern take on the original UK series that will chronicle the lives of a diverse group of friends in New Orleans whose lives are transformed in the aftermath of a

It's a Sin creator Russell T. Davies will receive this year's Excellence Award for lifetime achievement at the CanneSeries television festival.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentFresh off the success of HBO Max release “It’s a Sin,” which built on the achievement of 2019’s “Years and Years,” Welsh writer-showrunner-producer Russell T. Davies is set to receive the 2021 Canneseries Excellence Award.The plaudit will be presented to Davies on March 23 during an online conversation hosted by Canneseries, the Cannes International Series Festival, French pay TV giant Canal Plus and online news site Konbini.

A dementia drama filmed by Oscar-winning actress Glenda Jackson in Paisley has been honoured in the annual Royal Television Society Awards. The STV film was honoured alongside acclaimed BBC drama I May Destroy You and Russell T Davies, creator of recent Channel 4 hit It’s A Sin.

‘A Very English Scandal’ Producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins Lands ITV Series More than a year after joining ITV Studios, A Very English Scandal producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins has a name for his label and his first series. Happy Prince has been commissioned by ITV to make relationship drama You & Me, which is written by newcomer Jamie Davis and executive produced by It’s A Sin creator Russell T Davies.

the video went viral.Within hours, Owain’s Twitter feed was blowing up with messages from people in America, Australia and the Middle East.An overwhelming majority of responses to Owain’s video were positive but, as is the case with many things these days, there were also the occasional homophobic remark. Owain, 36, admits that some of those comments took him back to his childhood growing up in the ex-mining town of Ammanford in Wales.

Manori Ravindran International EditorStarzplay has swooped for Russell T. Davies’ hit drama “It’s a Sin” in Germany and Italy.The Lionsgate-backed platform, which has been steadily expanding its global footprint in the last year, has bought the five-part series from All3Media International.Produced by RED and commissioned by U.K.

It’s A Sin will not happen, the show’s creator has confirmed.Russell T Davies said that the hit Channel 4 drama “said everything I wanted to say” and as such will not be renewed for a follow-up.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the Queer As Folk and Cucumber writer explained why he wouldn’t pursue things further. “There isn’t a second season.

A Very English Scandal writer Russell T Davies has said that the success of his AIDS crisis series It’s A Sin is partly the result of his decision to only cast gay actors in lead roles.

Communion, which debuted at number one in the U.K.

“It’s A Sin,” the UK miniseries that debuted in America on HBO Max February 18, began its long gestation in the mind of out screenwriter Russell T. Davies back in 1995, even before he wrote his first high-profile gay TV drama, “Queer as Folk.” 

Olly Alexander, the lead singer of Years & Years, is starring in the new HBO Max limited series It’s a Sin and he’s opening up about his work on the show.