In 1986, he was approached by the Sunday Sport before its launch to provide a football-themed daily strip; he declined because he was concerned about the pornographic content of the newspaper. An experienced actor was required to portray Stephen; Davies approached Christopher Eccleston, who had previously been approached for the role of Stuart in Queer as Folk, based on his performance as Nicky Hutchinson in the drama Our Friends in the North. Lenny Henry Teams With Russell T Davies For ITV Drama On Caribbean Immigrants Forging New Lives In Britain". Although the basis of several of his scripts derive from previous concepts, he claims most concepts for storytelling have been already used, and instead tries to tell a relatively new and entertaining plot; for example, the Doctor Who episode " Turn Left" shares its concept most notably with the 1998 film Sliding Doors. One venture in 1991 led him to Granada Television, where he edited scripts for the ITV children's medical drama Children's Ward under the supervision of eventual Coronation Street producer Tony Wood and his former boss Ed Pugh.

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Lessons were instead held in portable buildings, which influenced Davies' imagination to create mystery, science-fiction, and conspiracy thriller stories about the main building. Two of his scripts, " Voyage of the Damned" and " The Stolen Earth", broke audience records for the show by being declared the second most viewed broadcasts of their respective weeks, and " Journey's End" became the first episode to be the most viewed broadcast of the week. The world without the Doctor creates a dystopia which he uses to provide a commentary on Nazi-esque fascism. Davies notes the stories about the politics of the crisis and the virus itself has been told, but not those about the early victims of the virus itself. He explained his anxiety and melancholy during the scriptwriting period still allowed him to keep on top of his work; on the other hand, he thought "Depression with a capital D [didn't provide] any such luxury".Time Lord Fairy Tales contains legendary stories of monsters, mysteries, villains and heroes from across the Whoniverse. The first half of the series would take part in the arcade mentioned in the novelisation, and the second would feature the appearance of psychic twins and the re-emergence of the villain Eldritch.

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Like how Sliding Doors examines two timelines based on whether Helen Quilley ( Gwyneth Paltrow) catches a London Underground train, Davies uses the choice of the Doctor's companion to turn left or right at a road intersection to depict either a world with the Doctor, as seen throughout the rest of the fourth series, or an alternate world without the Doctor, examined in its entirety within the episode. viewers per episode and a generally positive reaction from fans, and was renewed for a two-episode special due for the following year. He saw the relationship as a promising concept for an unconventional love story and asked the couple about their relationship to develop the show. The three teenagers examine the waterfall that gave Ben his powers and the disaster which caused the legendary infertility.

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. Since watching First Doctor's ( William Hartnell) regeneration into the Second Doctor ( Patrick Troughton) at the end of the 1966 serial The Tenth Planet, Davies had "fallen in love" with the show and, by the mid-1970s, he was regularly writing reviews of broadcast serials in his diary. When it was a Channel 4 project, it was the subject of a Sunday Express article a year before its original projected transmission date of late 2001. Davies was granted the opportunity for sporadic appearances over a period of six months; he hosted only one episode as a storytelling illustrator before he walked off the set and commented he was "not doing that again". Shortly after ITV declined to produce Casanova, Gardner took up a position as Head of Drama at BBC Wales and brought the concept with her.