Deja vu Russell?

Tonight on BBC1 sees the start of Years & Years an new drama written by Russell T Davies. It tells the story of a family during a turbulent future in the UK. One of the reasons is the rise of a political outsider played by Emma Thompson. Some will be reminding of a simaller plot of the third series of the revived Doctor Who in which The Doctor's old foe The Master sizes power on the back of a populist movement. Another familiar element is the name of Thompson's Years & Years character Vivenne Rook which is a bit simaller to the character in the Harold Saxon arc of Vivian Rook a journalist who figures out Saxon is not who his and pays for it with her life. So what is Russell's obsession with the name of Rook?  Growing up Russell loved reading the late Jean Rook, a journalist for the Daily Express whose columns were scathing of the Royal Family. Another link to the third series of (what has become known as Nu Who) is that Ann Reid and Jessica Hynes who play members of the family in Years & Years appeared in early episodes of the 3rd series.