TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY - GUARDIAN.UK: Interview: Russell T Davies
The Doctor Who screenwriter has been in LA working on a new-look Torchwood – with a revolutionary funding model
by Vicky Frost
Sunday 26 June 2011
Russell T Davies does not look as if he's just back from a wet weekend in Swansea. He bounds in, straight off the train and all glowing Californian tan, guffaw-punctuated anecdotes and booming, boisterous chat. Not that Davies is just about jolly asides and bonhomie. Back in London to promote the UK launch of Torchwood, the BBC spin-off series now reborn as a US premium cable show, the man who reinvented Doctor Who seems only too happy to fight the corporation's corner against a licence fee freeze that will see 20% cut from budgets.
"We all forgot how clever the Tories are, that's the start. We're all falling for how comic they are: the comedy of the coalition; Clegg and Cameron beside the hospital bed. They're fooling us into thinking they're funny – but they're not, they're viciously clever people," he says.
"And who can complain when they introduce massive austerity measures and then, 'Oh, by the way, we're crippling the BBC at the same time'. Because of course we're manning the barricades for the hospitals, the children, for food – never mind television..."
Torchwood: Miracle Day premieres in the US on STARZ on Friday, July 8 at 10/9C.
Torchwood: Miracle Day will be on BBC1 next month
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