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Post by matthewsee on Jul 17, 2009 14:45:58 GMT -5
TV Tonight has reported that Children of Earth has gotten very good reviews in the US as it airs there from July 20: www.tvtonight.com.au/2009/07/torchwood-us-reviews.htmlVariety said it best with its review: "Spread over five nights, it plays like an expanded version of what “The X-Files” movies should have been."
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 21, 2011 19:33:09 GMT -5
In Torchwood Magazine #17 Russell T Davies revealed some of the influences for Children of Earth.
The influences included Quatermass and the original V.
He said that when Quatermass was originally shown (in the UK) people stayed at home to watch it likewise with the showing of the original V.
Hence the parallels of Children of Earth being shown on five consecutive nights.
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Post by matthewsee on Mar 21, 2012 18:24:36 GMT -5
In a letter published in Torchwood Magazine #18 Adam T Reid of Canton, Ohio, in the aftermath of Children of Earth suggested Tegan, Peri, Mel or Ace be in Torchwood. Interesting casting idea considering that the opinions of most “classic” Who contributors including the actresses who played the said companions is completely unknown.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 17, 2014 2:25:10 GMT -5
In Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tales– The Final Chapter, Russell T Davies in an email to Benjamin Cook dated on 22 May 2008 said that his hopes of getting Freema Agyeman to play Martha in what would become Torchwood: Children of Earth were dashed when she got cast in a lead role for Law & Order: UK. Freema Agyeman’s casting in Law & Order: UK was done by Richard Stokes and Chris Chibnall who were formerly producer and head writer of Torchwood respectively. Perhaps emphasising that an irony wasn’t lost on him Davies said about Stokes and Chibnall that they “moved straight from Torchwood to Law & Order, and they’ve pounced on Freema. Good move. Clever move. Can’t blame them. Bless Freema.”
Stokes and Chibnall were producer and head writer of Torchwood respectively for its first two seasons which included the three season 2 episodes in which Freema Agyeman appeared as Martha. Notwithstanding that there was a two-year gap between season 2 and Children of Earth, the possibility of Freema Agyeman making future appearances as Martha in the Torchwood TV series must surely had existed in the minds of Stokes and Chibnall and I am not in any way suggesting that their casting of her in Law & Order: UK was deliberate on their part to stop her from being in Children of Earth.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 19, 2014 17:05:08 GMT -5
As her casting in Law & Order: UK had precluded Freema Agyeman from being in the full series of what would become Torchwood: Children of Earth, Russell T Davies, as revealed in The Writer’s Tale – The Final Chapter, wrote in a cameo for Martha in 2008 a year before Children of Earth would see transmission but Freema Agyeman was not even able to make this cameo. Reading the script of the cameo from this year 2014 what is interesting about it was that Martha still being engaged to Tom Milligan. When Children of Earth eventually arrived in 2009 there was a dialogue to explain Martha’s absence with her being on her honeymoon. Tom Milligan was not mentioned but there was the presumption that Martha had just got married to him. While Freema Agyeman was not able to do a Children of Earth cameo she did however made a cameo in Doctor Who: The End of Time shown mere months later in time to bid farewell to the Tenth Doctor. Here she was shown with her husband but it wasn’t Tom. It was instead Mickey.
Soon after it was revealed that Martha and Mickey had gotten married, Davies in an interview shortly afterwards said that Tom was a rebound for Martha from the Doctor.
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Post by matthewsee on May 21, 2014 5:18:38 GMT -5
In Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale: The Final Chapter, in an email from Russell T Davies to Benjamin Cook in 2008 the former informed the latter that Noel Clarke would not be available to reprise his role as Mickey in Torchwood: Children of Earth as he had been cast in a Michael Winterbottom film but did not revealed the name of the film possibly because Davies didn’t know its name. Out of curiously I went to IMDb to find out the name of the movie that made Clarke to miss out on Children of Earth but the filmographies of Clarke and Winterbottom did not correlate any such film. I then found out the name of the movie from this site: uk.linkedin.com/pub/jermaine-curtis-liburd/17/610/898The name of the movie was called A Beautiful Game but it was never made due to lack of film funding. This means that Clarke had missed out on Children of Earth for a movie that never got made. It means in retrospect Clarke could have been in Children of Earth if he had known that A Beautiful Game was not going to be made!
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