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Article: Messiah complex: Queer as Folk creator Russell T. Davies continues his reign as TV's holy terror with The Second Coming.(television)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- September 16, 2003
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He brought guy-on-guy anilingus into people's living rooms with the original U.K. Queer as Folk and questioned our ideas about attraction with the gay-man-falls-for-straight-woman drama Bob and Rose. Now creator Russell T. Davies has found religion. Well, sort of.
In his absorbing new miniseries The Second Coming (BBC America, premiering September 20), Davies asks us to imagine what would happen if the Son of God returned today in the lanky body of a virginal Manchester video store clerk named Steve Baxter (Christopher Eccleston of The Others). "It's an idea I had about nine years ago," says Davies, 40, calling from the south of France where he's taking a ...