TV Guide reports some good news and bad news for fans of the BBC series Torchwood.
The good: the series has been renewed and John Barrowman will be back to play the role of Captain Jack Harkness.
The bad: so far, the BBC has only authorized five episodes for next year so it may play more like a mini-series than a full season.
It does lead to certain questions about the show: who else is coming back? With Russell T. Davies' imminent departure from Doctor Who, does that mean the reins for Torchwood wil go to someone else as well? Did the shortened season (a.k.a. the four specials) of Doctor Who slated for next year affect the season length of Torchwood as well? Will the new cast include Doctor Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman)?
Sadly, we don't have the answer to these questions (and, for now, neither does executive producer Julie Gardner). For now, we'll just have to wait and see.
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6-03-2008 @ 12:44PM
Gordon Werner said...
Silly network executives ... although I am glad to see that they are just as bad as ours (FOX) et al.
At least season 1 has been announced on Blu-Ray.
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6-03-2008 @ 12:51PM
Akbar Fazil said...
why can't they get it right. Jack is not Bi-Sexual.
He is more Try-Sexual. He will try anything.
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6-03-2008 @ 2:41PM
Oreo said...
I agree. He is an alien so how can you be bisexual when there are so many different aliens and different genders? Plus some aliens don't have any gender at all, he's Jacksexual.
6-03-2008 @ 6:28PM
Claire said...
oreo
Jack's not an alien. He's from a human colony in the 51st century. technically the colony is in another galaxy and he is not in fact from earth, but he's still very much human, immortality aside. so i think he still counts as not alien.
6-03-2008 @ 1:00PM
lucyfan62 said...
I love Torchwood. Watching it on HDNet has been great. I'm disappointed that there are only 5 episodes slated for production. I hope the rumors of them making it more kid friendly are just rumors!
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6-03-2008 @ 1:48PM
Vince said...
Jack is pansexual.
RTD has got to be one of the lazier show runners. He's got two 'hits' on his hands and he'd doing less of them in the future... not the thing you'd usually expect. Maybe he's trying to leave while things are on top but still next year is going to be quite a drought with less Doctor Who & Torchwood.
The fifth season/series of Doctor Who, however, is probably going to be a scary blast seeing as Moffat will be the new show runner
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6-03-2008 @ 2:39PM
Oreo said...
Maybe you should follow, or maybe read the news before commenting.
It is not known weather RTD will be returning to Torchwood, they just said that up there.
Doctor Who next season will only have 4 TV movies (That's what I'm calling them.) because David T, who plays The Doctor, is going to be in some play and won't have time to do a full season.
So it's not laziness, it's just how things go.
6-03-2008 @ 2:19PM
PB said...
Yikes! How can I survive with only 5 episodes of the lovely Jack Harkness? *sigh*
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6-03-2008 @ 2:41PM
Eric J. said...
Rumor, and possible Doctor Who/Torchwood Spoiler below:
The rumor is that we will see Martha and Mickey (back from the other dimension with Rose) as the new Torchwood members.
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6-03-2008 @ 3:29PM
Ryan said...
5 episodes of Torchwood is better than nothing. But I do hope they up the count. I'm excited for S3 after a fantastic S2 (which was nicely recovered from a subpar S1).
Then again I just want more Ianto!
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6-03-2008 @ 4:43PM
Nina said...
British television is wonderful...British television producers are a bit looney! Never more than 13 episodes of anything, sometimes as low as 6 episodes and then another years wait...terrific shows (inevitably the ones I love) getting pulled off air because the writer/producer wants to move on. (Yes, I'm looking at you, Russell T....AND Ricky Gervais - Office/Extras... but I still love ya.) Now, both TORCHWOOD and WHO in extremely limited episodes for 2009! . . . Stop the INSANITY!
Enough already! RTD: Sell TORCHWOOD to Showtime! John Barrowman: Come back to the states... permanently, (bring Gareth with you, of course. We want at least 3 more years, 22 episodes a pop, of TORCHWOOD Pittsburgh: Jack/Ianto Meet Brian/Justin.
Well, I have to dream because the "wait and see" is killing me!
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6-03-2008 @ 5:21PM
obadiah spittle said...
I hope they retire the Martha character. Please. I don't ask much, but she's awful. And I don't often complain, but every minute she's on the screen is a total waste of time. I agree with the commenter in another thread who said they liked her in the hospital episode, but that was it.
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6-03-2008 @ 10:16PM
Oreo said...
That was me! :)
She was fantastic in her first episode but then died from there. I don't know if it's the actress or the writers but after awhile she is just dull.
6-03-2008 @ 6:37PM
tspack said...
Five episodes? What's the point of that?
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6-03-2008 @ 9:45PM
Anita said...
Good, especially considering a) there're only 5 eps a season that I really like and b) I'm still upset they killed off 2 characters unnecessarily (altho I'm not sad about O). However, while I think Moffet can aptly do Doctor Who without any assistance, I felt Torchwood relied on RTD, unless Chibnall takes over -
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6-03-2008 @ 10:26PM
Vincent J. Murphy said...
Rumor is that Martha Jones won't appear, since the actress is working on a revival of the Survivors (a Terry Nation creation about a post-apocalyptic world).
I could do without Mickey, too. Or Rickey.
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6-04-2008 @ 12:43AM
Mike said...
Isn't Torchwood the number 1 show on BBC America? Torchwood and Robin Hood are great shows and i would miss them.
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6-08-2008 @ 9:35PM
Memmie said...
Sad to see the well intrenched Bozo's at the BBC are at it again. They have 2 Mega International hits on their hands with Torchwood and Dr. Who, so what do they do?They gut both of them. When they weren't forth coming with Torchwood news with Davies exit news I had a sneakin hunch they would use it at an opening to work on killing off Torchwood.
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6-24-2008 @ 7:04PM
skje9171 said...
I love that Torchwood is coming back next season, whether it be for five eipisodes or not. I hope that they bring back James Marsters, I just love him!
The American networks could take a hint from the brits and find ways to make shows last for more than one or two seasons by shortening them. Whatever works to keep it going, I'm for it!
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