"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. ""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."" The series was"
"the lives of three gay men in Manchester, one of whom, Vince Tyler, is portrayed as a fanatical ""Doctor Who"" fan. Although never clearly seen on screen, part of the set dressing for Vince's bedroom as seen in the first episode of the series was a copy of ""Damaged Goods"", included as an in-joke by the set dressers. ""Damaged Goods"" itself contains a reference to ""Why Don't You?"", a BBC children's television series on which Davies was working at the time the novel is set. The ""Doctor Who Annual 2006"", published by Panini in August 2005, contained an article entitled"
"The storylines follow the three couples as they try to stay faithful to each other. They are held back by issues such as impotence, infidelity, and unplanned pregnancy. Their lives are further complicated by their jobs, money troubles, and moving in together. Bullen embellished the scripts with events from his own personal life. The directors and producers made additional contributions, with the intent to keep the fiction in the programme as true to life as possible. The series was filmed in Greater Manchester in the first half of 1998, using Granada Television's studios, and exterior locations. Critical reaction to the"
"Manchester's gay village, from the former offices of The Lesbian & Gay Foundation. Gaydio re-appeared for a second broadcast on World AIDS Day 2006 in a joint broadcast with BBC Radio Manchester, taking over their DAB frequency for most of the afternoon and evening. A second RSL - this time for 28 days - commenced on 5 February 2007 and ended 4 March 2007. Gaydio returned for a third RSL on 6 August 2007 (also for four weeks) with Chris & Emma at breakfast and Brian Day back again in the afternoons for an extended show. This period offered a"
"The League of Gentlemen The League of Gentlemen is a British comedy television series that premiered on BBC Two in 1999. The show is set in Royston Vasey, a fictional town in Northern England, originally based on Alston, Cumbria and follows the lives of bizarre characters, most of whom are played by three of the show's four writers—Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith—who, along with Jeremy Dyson, formed the League of Gentlemen comedy troupe in 1995. The series originally aired for three series from 1999 until 2002 followed by a film in 2005. A three-part revival mini-series was broadcast"
"focuses on LGBT youth in Manchester that are on the periphery of the ""Cucumber"" narrative. The two series are primarily linked through the crossover character of Dean Monroe (Fisayo Akinade), who appears as a major character in both series, and are contrasted by social acceptance of the characters; whereas Akinade's character is more ""open and confident"" about his sexuality, the characters of ""Cucumber"" are former activists whose sexuality had to be less open. Whereas Davies' 1999–2000 series ""Queer as Folk"" focused on gay men in the Canal Street club scene, ""Cucumber"" is a self-contained serial following the story of one"
"series is also available on TVNZ OnDemand in New Zealand. The series aired in Germany as a dubbed version with the first Episode on WDR on July 30, 2016 and was watched by 70,000 viewers. Cucumber (TV series) Cucumber is a 2015 British television series created by Russell T Davies and aired on Channel 4. Exploring 21st-century gay life, the series focuses on middle-aged Henry Best (Vincent Franklin). Following a disastrous date night with his boyfriend of nine years, Lance Sullivan (Cyril Nri), Henry's old life shatters. He embarks on a new life with unfamiliar rules. In development since 2006,"
"Century Falls Century Falls is a British cross-genre series broadcast in six twenty-five-minute episodes on BBC1 in early 1993. Written by Russell T Davies, it tells the story of teenager Tess Hunter and her mother, who move to the seemingly idyllic rural village of Century Falls, only to find that it hides many powerful secrets. Russell T Davies had worked in the BBC Children's Department for many years, writing the science-fiction series ""Dark Season"" for the weekday afternoon Children's BBC strand in 1991. The following year, he had left the BBC to work for Granada Television, where he was producing"
"to letters from viewers who wrote into the show suggesting games, 'makes' and days out. Typically these were arts-and-crafts activities or games and magic tricks children could learn to impress their friends. Created by producer/director Patrick Dowling at the BBC's Bristol studios, Russell T Davies was later at one time a producer and director for ""Why Don't You...?"" before going on to greater fame as writer of ""Queer as Folk"" and producer of the 2005 revival of ""Doctor Who"". Under Davies's direction, the format of the series shifted from magazine show to drama, with plots frequently centring on harebrained young"
"as a lesbian who was struggling and denying her sexuality, while Brittany is bisexual. ""Torchwood"" (2006), created by Russell T Davies, is a spin-off of long-running British science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"". The show is based in Cardiff, Wales, and deals with several LGBT themes, specifically bisexuality. Each of the main characters in ""Torchwood"" has same-sex encounters at some point in the first season, with ""The Sun"" describing all of the characters on Torchwood as bisexual. Davies has said that he hopes to defy audience expectations of monosexual characters: The lead male in the series, Captain Jack Harkness originated"
"13 April 2015 to a very low 24,000 viewers, which was less than half the viewership that had watched ""Cucumber"" before it. The series airs on SBS Two in Australia. The series is also available on TVNZ OnDemand in New Zealand and on Hulu in the United States of America. Banana (TV series) Banana is a 2015 British television series created by Russell T Davies and aired on E4. The sister series to Channel 4's ""Cucumber"" and the 4oD documentary series ""Tofu"", ""Banana"" is a series focusing on LGBT youth in Manchester, around the narrative of ""Cucumber"". Unlike ""Cucumber"", which"
"drama ""The Village"", depicting life in a Derbyshire village through the eyes of a central character, Bert Middleton. The first series, covering the years 1914 to 1920 in six episodes, premiered on BBC1 in 2013, and a second and final series, set in the 1920s, was made in 2014. Moffat envisions more series totalling up to 42 episodes that will continue the story through the 20th century. The proposed project is similar to the German film series ""Heimat"", written and directed by Edgar Reitz, which told the story of a German family from 1919 to 2000. The BBC broadcast Moffat's"
"Banana (TV series) Banana is a 2015 British television series created by Russell T Davies and aired on E4. The sister series to Channel 4's ""Cucumber"" and the 4oD documentary series ""Tofu"", ""Banana"" is a series focusing on LGBT youth in Manchester, around the narrative of ""Cucumber"". Unlike ""Cucumber"", which is a self-contained serial following the story of one gay man, ""Banana"" is an anthology series focusing on the wider LGBT spectrum. The series was nominated for the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series. ""Banana"" develops some of the storylines of characters featured in ""Cucumber"" as"
"sister series, modern sex and sexuality with the cast and public. All three shows aired in 2015 for a single series. Stephen Russell Davies was born on 27 April 1963 at Mount Pleasant Hospital in Swansea. His father, Vivian Davies (1925–2015), and his mother, Barbara (1929–1999), were teachers. Davies was the youngest of three children and their only son. Because he was born by C-section, his mother was placed on a morphine drip and was institutionalised after an overdose resulted in a psychotic episode. He described his mother's experience as ""literally ... like science fiction"" and an early inspiration for"
"Boys from the Bush Boys From The Bush is a British television series produced by the BBC. It was created and written by Douglas Livingstone. Two series of ten episodes each were made between 1991 and 1992. Although never achieving mainstream success, the series has since gathered a dedicated cult following. The series dealt with the life of Reg Toomer (Tim Healy), an ex-pat Briton living in Australia and running Melbourne Confidential, a failing private detective agency with his shifty business partner Dennis Tontine (Chris Haywood). His estranged young cousin Leslie (Mark Haddigan) arrives in Melbourne from the United Kingdom"
"Dark Season Dark Season is a British science-fiction television serial for adolescents, screened on BBC1 in late 1991. Comprising six 25-minute episodes, the two linked three-part stories tell the adventures of three teenagers and their battle to save their school and their classmates from the actions of the sinister Mr Eldritch. It was the first television drama to be written by Russell T Davies, and is also noteworthy for co-starring a young Kate Winslet in her first major television role. Russell T Davies was a BBC staff producer working for the children's department at BBC Manchester, running the summertime activity"
"Stackton Tressel Stackton Tressel is a fictional, archetypical English village. Originally featuring in the 1974 Edinburgh Festival and then on the London stage, the exploits of its most notable residents, Doctor Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket, were broadcast by the BBC – on both radio and television – during the 1970s and 1980s. The radio series included: There were 21 episodes of ""Dear Ladies"", as the BBC TV programme was called, broadcast for the first time in 1983/4. The writers were George Logan and Patrick Fyffe, who played the starring roles, plus Gyles Brandreth. Stackton Tressel (or simply Stackton)"
"A Country Parish A Country Parish is a British television documentary made by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC2 which was first broadcast in 2003. Produced and directed by Nigel Farrell the programme concerns the life of Jamie Allen who at the beginning of the series is a young, proactive curate from a working-class background in a none too prosperous Midlands town (Nuneaton). However much to his surprise, he is suddenly made rector of a wealthy, long standing and beautiful parish in the heart of rural Wiltshire. He is very much not what was expected by the parishioners and the series"
"Three - ""Afghan Stories"", ""Mountain Men and Holy Wars"" and ""The Land Beyond the River"" - were broadcast on the Sundance Channel in March 2003 with its FilmFest ""Portraits of Islam"". ""The Land Beyond the River"" (1998) is about his journey through Central Asia in 1995. It was broadcast by PBS in November 1997 and was shot entirely on Hi 8. Davies travelled to the Caucasus in the summer of 1999 to film ""Mountain Men and Holy Wars"". The September 11 attacks marked a turning point for Davies. Having witnessed the collapse of the World Trade Center, he gave up"
"Dark Ages (TV series) Dark Ages is a British television sitcom, first broadcast as five thirty-minute episodes on ITV in December 1999. It portrayed medieval English villagers fearful of the turn of the new (second) millennium in the year 999 AD, and parodied contemporary fears at the turn of the third millennium (such as the Millennium Bug) in 1999. It was written by Rob Grant and directed by Steve Bendelack. ""Dark Ages"" was created by Merle Nygate in 1996 and commissioned by Granada Television for development. Producer Justin Judd and Nygate could not make the concept work for an ITV"
"sexuality in the 1920s; and he highlighted the eighth as when he allowed the series to ""take on its own life"" by deliberately inserting plot devices such as McGuffins to enhance the comic relief of the series. Although well received, the series' ratings were not high enough to warrant a third series. After its cancellation in September 1997, Davies had an existential crisis after almost dying from an accidental overdose; the experience persuaded him to detoxify and make a name for himself by producing a series that celebrated his homosexuality. After his near-death experience, Davies started to develop a series"
"novel, written by Tom McGregor, was released as a prelude to the series. Wokenwell Wokenwell is a six-part British television crime drama series, first broadcast on 18 May 1997, that aired on ITV. The series was produced by LWT and created by screenwriter Bill Gallagher. The series centred on three policemen and their wives living in the fictional northern England town of Wokenwell. The series was filmed on location in and around the picturesque West Yorkshire village of Marsden. The series starred Ian McElhinney, Celia Imrie, Nicholas Gleaves, Lesley Dunlop, Jason Done and Nicola Stephenson, with Bryan Pringle and John"
"Cucumber (TV series) Cucumber is a 2015 British television series created by Russell T Davies and aired on Channel 4. Exploring 21st-century gay life, the series focuses on middle-aged Henry Best (Vincent Franklin). Following a disastrous date night with his boyfriend of nine years, Lance Sullivan (Cyril Nri), Henry's old life shatters. He embarks on a new life with unfamiliar rules. In development since 2006, ""Cucumber"" was announced along with E4's companion series ""Banana"", and 4oD's web series ""Tofu"" in November 2013. The titles of all three shows come from a scientific study into the male erection, which divided the"
"on the state of local orphanages. On his return Massey and the team visited the Berlin Wall and witnessed the destruction first hand. Massey married his wife Debi in 2002, whose twenty year radio career includes three years presenting as the Hunter on BBC WM's Hunted. They moved to the Stourbridge area in November of the same year, where they continue to reside. David Massey (author) David Massey is a British, award-winning novelist. Massey is published in the UK and Europe by The Chicken House and in the United States by Chicken House USA, an imprint of Scholastic Corporation Massey"
"not received a VHS release, nor has it been released on DVD. Playing the Field Playing the Field is a BBC television drama series following the lives of the Castlefield Blues, a fictitious female football team from South Yorkshire. Inspired by Pete Davies’s novel ""I Lost My Heart To The Belles"" — which was written about a real-life club, the Doncaster Belles — ""Playing the Field"" ran for five series, from 1998–2002, with scripts by, amongst others, Kay Mellor, Sally Wainwright and Gaynor Faye. Despite being set in South Yorkshire, much of the location filming took place in Ilkeston, Derbyshire,"
"Wokenwell Wokenwell is a six-part British television crime drama series, first broadcast on 18 May 1997, that aired on ITV. The series was produced by LWT and created by screenwriter Bill Gallagher. The series centred on three policemen and their wives living in the fictional northern England town of Wokenwell. The series was filmed on location in and around the picturesque West Yorkshire village of Marsden. The series starred Ian McElhinney, Celia Imrie, Nicholas Gleaves, Lesley Dunlop, Jason Done and Nicola Stephenson, with Bryan Pringle and John Malcolm also appearing in supporting roles. On 1 April 1997 a TV-tie in"
"The episode was directed by John Fletcher and written by Denis Mitchell, and was part of a series that looked at working class British life. The other two films in the series are ""Every Day Except Christmas"" and ""We Are the Lambeth Boys"". In July 2015, the film was included in the British Film Institute's online project, Britain on Film, which aims to build a social history of everyday British life. The Saturday Men The Saturday Men is a 1962 British sports documentary about association football that follows a week in the life of West Bromwich Albion football club. The"
"Touching Evil Touching Evil is a British television drama serial following the exploits of a crack squad on the Organised & Serial Crime Unit, a rapid response police force that serves the entire county. It began airing in 1997. It was produced by United Productions for Anglia Television, and screened on the ITV network. The first season consists of six 50 minute (one-hour with advertisements) episodes. It was created by Paul Abbott, and written by Abbott with Russell T Davies. The serial was very popular, and led to two sequel serials in 1998 and 1999, although these were not written"
"2 DVD of series two 9 March 2015. The Village (2013 TV series) The Village is a BBC TV series written by Peter Moffat. The drama is set in a Derbyshire village in the 20th century. The first series of what Moffat hoped would become a 42-hour TV drama was broadcast in spring 2013 and covered the years 1914 to 1920. A second series was broadcast in autumn 2014, and continued the story into the 1920s. Future series were to be set during the Second World War, post-war Austerity Britain, and so on. ""The Village"" tells the story of life"
"follows the new rector as he tries to win them over. (The Wiltshire parish was Seend, Bulkington and Poulshot, bordering Salisbury Plain.) A Country Parish A Country Parish is a British television documentary made by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC2 which was first broadcast in 2003. Produced and directed by Nigel Farrell the programme concerns the life of Jamie Allen who at the beginning of the series is a young, proactive curate from a working-class background in a none too prosperous Midlands town (Nuneaton). However much to his surprise, he is suddenly made rector of a wealthy, long standing and"
"True Dare Kiss True Dare Kiss is a six-part British television drama series, created by screenwriter Debbie Horsfield, that first broadcast on BBC One on 28 June 2007. The series follows the reunion of four sisters and a brother following the death of their estranged father, as they embark on a long journey to uncover the truth, revealing secrets surrounding a cataclysmic event in the past. The series, produced by Marcus Wilson, is set in the city of Manchester in the North-West of England. Filming began on the series on 8 January 2007. The series featured a high-profile cast including"
"of series three. Operation Good Guys Operation Good Guys is a British mockumentary series about an elite police unit's bid to snare one of Britain's most powerful crime lords. It was first screened on BBC Two from 29 December 1997 to 31 August 2000. It witnesses, on camera, the total breakdown, professionally and personally, of the Operation Good Guys team. Throughout the operation, The 'Good Guys' have an unfortunate habit of embroiling into their calamitous world some of the country's best-known celebrities, from actors and footballers, to TV presenters and even the odd ex-convict. It was created by Ray Burdis"
"Country Boys Country Boys is a 6-hour documentary film centered on Cody Perkins and Chris Johnson, two teenage boys from David, Kentucky. They attended the David School, a non-denominational alternative high school with a mission to serve underprivileged and struggling students. The film covers the 3-year period from 1999 to 2002 in which the boys' ages range from 15 to 18. It was directed by David Sutherland. It was a three-part edition of ""Frontline"" on PBS, with each part running for two hours, originally broadcast in January 2006. The focus of the film is Cody and Chris' struggles with the"