Co-signed. The reason Russell T Davies couldn't make good work with a high budget isn't because a high budget is inherently antithetical to creativity, it's because he's a middle-class white man and is, for separate but not unrelated reasons, creatively past it
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As Doctor Who’s budget is being discussed, there’s a persistent idea that it *should* be cheap like the original series, to allow for more creativity.
It’s worth reading the accounts of the creatives. Christine Rawlins was the costume designer for the 1970 series, and describes “blood and sweat”.
