“Physician Who” and “Queer as People” author Russell T Davies teased his upcoming Channel 4 drama “Tip Toe” at Sequence Mania on Wednesday, calling it “very a lot a response to the place we are actually.”
“Tip Toe” stars Alan Cumming and David Morrissey as feuding neighbors in Manchester and “explores up to date threats dealing with the LGBTQ+ group” by way of their story. Throughout a keynote deal with at Sequence Mania alongside producing companion Nicola Shindler — through which the highly effective trailer for “Tip Toe” was unveiled — Davies mentioned the collection is a “response” to “the place politics is heading, the place all of us are heading, the anger that’s on this planet now.”
“It’s a present through which each good deed goes punished. Every little thing goes mistaken. Each textual content creates a nightmare, each DM, each voice word shouldn’t be despatched. Every little thing everybody says, each angle everybody has, begins a hearth. Which is form of like the place we are actually,” Davies continued. “Isn’t that occuring simply daily? And when it occurs to our flesh pressers, then God assist us. And I believed more and more, as a homosexual man in 2026, I felt that the queer discourse was turning into so hostile and so harmful in a approach that I by no means thought would occur once more.”
The trailer confirmed how Cumming and Morrissey’s characters grow to be entangled when Cumming, a homosexual bar proprietor, employs Morrissey, an unemployed building employee, to repair up his bar. Morrissey’s character should confront his personal homophobia and transphobia as Cumming varieties a friendship with one in all his sons, who’s closeted.
Calling it a “nice large suburban thriller,” Davies teased “Tip Toe” as his “angriest, darkest and funniest” collection. “Folks will hate it, it’s going to get known as woke on a colossal scale,” he continued. “However hooray, [I’m] joyful to be known as woke!”
