Russell T Davies turned his anger into a heart-breaking new drama: ‘We released a demon’

Russell T. Davies has poured his anger and sadness into Tip Toe (Picture: Channel 4)

Russell T. Davies is a very angry man. 

Not at me, I should say – although if he ever read Metro’s Doctor Who coverage, that might be understandable. 

No, when I walked into a glitzy central London office to chat with him and David Morrissey (I’d later have a Zoom call with the show’s other star, Alan Cumming) about their new drama Tip Toe, he was charm personified. 

He spent the first five minutes ...