Protecting your reality, douchebag!

DWM: Wasn’t it a bit of a spoiler when it [the black Dalek] appeared at the BAFTAs?

Russell T. Davies:  “Don’t talk to me about that BAFTA Dalek! I still don’t know how they got that. I haven’t asked, cos I don’t want to know. We knew they’d asked for a Dalek, cos we had to give permission, but they said it was just for the red carpet stuff. Indeed, there was a bronze one outside, so we presumed that was that. The version on TV was quite heavily edited, cos we were gobsmacked - poor Julie [Gardner, executive producer] was on the microphone, making the speech, and couldn’t even make out where the voice was coming from. And I very clearly turned round, saw it, turned to Billie and said, ‘Oh, for f*** sake, it’s the black one!’   Mind you, at the same time, I was thinking 'Oh, Nick Briggs must be here,’ so that was nice, and then you think, 'He must’ve known that we’d won before we did, the bastard!’  Even stranger still, didn’t the BAFTA black Dalek have a red light in its eyepiece? Cos we’ve never done that! How the hell did that happen?!”

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