{"id":23360,"date":"2025-09-05T10:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/alan-cumming-david-morrissey-join-russell-t-davies-tip-toe\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T10:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:07:35","slug":"alan-cumming-david-morrissey-join-russell-t-davies-tip-toe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/alan-cumming-david-morrissey-join-russell-t-davies-tip-toe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Cumming &#038; David Morrissey Join Russell T Davies\u2019 Tip Toe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Cumming and David Morrissey will lead the cast of Russell T Davies\u2019 new Channel 4 drama <em>Tip Toe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tip Toe<\/em> is produced by Quay Street Productions, with Nicola Shindler, Davies, Peter Hoar and Cumming serving as executive producers. It is produced in association with ITV Studios, which will distribute the show internationally.<\/p>\n<p>Filming is taking place in Manchester for the five-part series about neighbors Leo (Cumming) and Clive (Morrissey), who have lived next door to each other for almost 15 years but have become deadly enemies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best things in life are worth waiting for and the best people,\u201d said Cumming. \u201cRussell T Davies and I have been trying to work together for over 20 years. Now, not only are we working together, but doing so with one of my dearest, oldest friends, Dave Morrissey, and in a piece of work I think is so brilliant and prescient and necessary. 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