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Post by tractator on Jan 26, 2006 17:39:25 GMT -5
Really looking forward to this.
For those of you who don't know what it is, it will be a spin-off show from the current Doctor Who series.
Details are a little thin on the ground but basically Torchwood will be a secret organisation based in Cardiff (Wales), charged by the government with the task of locating (and presumably using/back-engineering) alien technologies that have fallen to Earth.
The show will be slightly more adult (darker but humerous too), and will probably air post-watershed. It is scheduled for autumn.
The Torchwood team will be led by Captain Jack, and all stories will be earth-based.
I don't know much else (and half of what I've just said may not be entirely correct), so any other info please?
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Post by Ice Warrior on Jan 26, 2006 18:34:29 GMT -5
Ok someone help me out here please!
When we are first introduced to Jack, it is during the war (I or II, can't rememer), meaning that he travelled back in time in his ship.
As far as I have heard, Torchwood is set in current day England but Parting of the Ways happens in the future and Jack gets stranded there, so how does he get back to current day Earth without his ship?
(I don't expect anyone to have any answers as yet, unless I got my future/pasts times of the events wrong)
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Post by tractator on Jan 27, 2006 16:27:06 GMT -5
Not sure, but without going into too much detail about the events in The Christmas Invasion, things happen in that episode that indicate that Torchwood has already been established by the time the whole Sycorax situation kicks off.
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Post by thevalyard01 on Jan 28, 2006 3:22:02 GMT -5
they said they would not say how he back from the future
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Post by Cyberman mark 2006 on Jan 31, 2006 14:58:54 GMT -5
He proberly crashed
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Post by tractator on Feb 24, 2006 14:28:29 GMT -5
The papers announced today that John Barrowman's co-star is (and thats a definite) Eve Myles as 'Gwen Cooper'. You will probably recognise her as she played 'Gwyneth' in The Unquiet Dead.
A search on the 'net has also uncovered details of an expected UK premiere date: Saturday September 6th at 9pm on BBC3 (duration 45 minutes).
I wonder if Gwen might turn out to be a descendant of Gwyneth, especially if she turns out to have psychic ability (a rumour I'd heard about the female lead)?
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Post by anewkindofdarkness on Feb 25, 2006 5:09:55 GMT -5
This might be the two years missing in his life?
Question, why Cardiff!? Couldnt be somewhere else! It thought it would be better if they werent round the UK and didnt really only have one base of operations.
Althrough the part was written with her in mind they werent sure if she would do it so I dont think it would be a decendant of Gwyneth as it might of bee another actor. Then again
Gwen is short for Gwyneth.
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Post by neon on Mar 21, 2006 15:21:10 GMT -5
This might be the two years missing in his life? Question, why Cardiff!? Couldn't be somewhere else! It thought it would be better if they weren't round the UK and didn't really only have one base of operations. Althrough the part was written with her in mind they weren't sure if she would do it so I dont think it would be a decendant of Gwyneth as it might of bee another actor. Then again Gwen is short for Gwyneth. And i don't think it is a coincidence that past Gwen and torchwood are in Cardiff near that Rift in Space and Time. Maybe Jack used the rift to travel back in time, it is possible- just needs imagination. |
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 22, 2006 18:57:16 GMT -5
Torchwood to debut in October says Russell T Davies as Outpost Gallifrey reports:
"In an interview for the US Sci-Fi Channel's Sci Fi Wire, executive producer Russell T Davies singled out both a start date for production on the spinoff series Torchwood as well as a likely date for transmission. "We start filming in May, and we should be on in this country [England] in October," Davies tells Ian Spelling. "So we'll have two shows running simultaneously, which will be fun." Says the article, "Davies, who will oversee Torchwood while maintaining his Doctor Who responsibilities during the filming of that show's second season, described Torchwood as a 13-part science fiction series for adults. (Torchwood is an anagram for Doctor Who.) 'Doctor Who airs in this country at 7 o'clock at night, so it gets the whole family watching,' Davies said. 'Torchwood is Earth-based. It takes one of the actors who was very popular from the first [season] of Doctor Who, who is called Captain Jack Harkness [John Barrowman]. He was in five episodes and was hugely successful as a companion to the Doctor [Christopher Eccleston].' Davies added: 'He's a bisexual con man. Hooray! We need more bisexual con men on our television screens, I think, don't you think? Bisexual con men from the 53rd century, what could be better? He was so enormously successful that we've created a spinoff for him.'""
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Post by neon on Mar 24, 2006 12:01:13 GMT -5
Tourchwood as a whole is a good idea  I just hope they get it right But i would prefer if Jack was working for unit, maybe as a scientific adviser (ring any bells) |
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Post by davisonera on Apr 3, 2006 5:44:21 GMT -5
Don't really see why they're making Torchwood. I for one won't bother to watch it. Captain Jack was bad enough as a companion let alone in his own show.
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Post by Not valid in this area on Apr 3, 2006 8:46:51 GMT -5
I only saw one full episode of the new series, The Unquiet Dead and bits of Rose and The end of the world.
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 6, 2006 20:59:24 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 14, 2006 20:43:01 GMT -5
Torchwood Filming Next Week:
From Outpost Gallifrey-
"According to a brief comment by John Barrowman today's installment of ITV's "This Morning," which Barrowman has been filling in as guest host all week, Torchwood, the Doctor Who spinoff series he and Eve Myles will star in for the autumn, begins filming "next week". There is currently no official word from the production, but this is indication that the series will film during the off-time for Doctor Who (which starts filming its third series in July). Barrowman also noted that the series would be "more adult, more saucy and I drive around in a big vehicle," and he commented that his character would soon be an action figure: "Yes I am going to be an action figure! I proofed it last night and it should be on the shelves soon." (Thanks to Chuck Foster, Stuart Jackson)"
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 25, 2006 19:55:30 GMT -5
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I just hope they get it right