In an interview with BBC Writersroom<\/a> Davies explained that one of the hardest things about writing is making sure your characters are as clever as you \u2013 if not cleverer \u2013 and says that this is especially hard when writing for a character like the Doctor.<\/p>\n \u201cI do think the hardest show to write on television is Doctor Who,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been there obviously and truly it\u2019s hard to write because the Doctor is a billion times cleverer than the writer, he understands art and science and the cosmos and so on, he gets everything.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cThe danger with Doctor Who is he walks in the door and solves the entire plot in three minutes \u2013 as a writer you have to spin plates and tap dance and juggle to stop that happening, it makes it very very hard to write.<\/p>\n \u201cLet alone the fact that he arrived in a great big machine that\u2019s the most powerful object in the universe, it travels in time and is invulnerable! It\u2019s hard to worry for the Doctor when you put it like that, where the lead character starts to be so clever they\u2019re outstripping the writer!\u201d<\/p> And he went on to highlight a number of other popular characters that fit into a similar category. \u201cThat\u2019s Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect, I think that\u2019s [Fitz in] Cracker, and Poirot and Mrs Marple, they\u2019re cleverer than anyone else in the room,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd it doesn\u2019t have to be an intellectual cleverness, Del Boy is essentially the cleverest person in the room while being an idiot, while his schemes are doomed to fail, nonetheless we would all like to be as inventive as Del Boy, as gregarious as Del Boy, as loved as Del Boy.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s a brilliant brilliant man, I don\u2019t mean intellectually brilliant, it doesn\u2019t have to be Doctor Who or Sherlock, it can be Del Boy\u2026 it\u2019s keeping your standards up and it\u2019s not treating your characters as dumb, not having them say dumb things.\u201d<\/p>\n By Patrick Cremona Published: Thursday, 07 October 2021 at 12:00 am The news that Russell T Davies will be returning as Doctor Who\u00a0showrunner when Chris Chibnall departs next year has caused much celebration among fans \u2013 and now the popular screenwriter has shared some insights about his writing process. 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