Cybersurfing: Doctoring Dr. Who
DallasNews.com profiles Russell T. Davies, the writer-producer who revamped Britian’s long-running DR. WHO television series for the 21st century. Davies, a gay man, added the bisesual Captain Jack Harkness to the cast:
“He has basically changed the face of television in the U.K.,” said John Barrowman, who plays Captain Jack in both Doctor Whoand a spinoff series, “Torchwood,” which is aimed at adults. “He has taken subject matter that nobody else will touch, and he has put in characters that nobody else will bother doing.”
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“He takes Doctor Whoand pushes the envelope the whole time, not in terms of taste and decency but in terms of ideas and emotional intelligence, the size of feeling and epic stroke of narrative breadth,” said Jane Tranter, the BBC’s head of fiction. She said that no one at the BBC had ever had a problem with Captain Jack or with any of Davies’ plotlines. “How ridiculous would it be that you would travel through time and space and only ever find heterosexual men?” Tranter said.
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