Torchwood

weblog Monday, October 17th, 2005

 

Well, knock me over with a feather. I wasn’t expecting this.

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An M-rated spin-off from Doctor Who set in the modern day, starring John Barrowman as Captain Jack. A kind of sci-fi crime show soap thing. Written by Russell T. Davies.

That comes to 27 episodes of Who-ish television per year. I just hope Davies doesn’t do too much writing on Torchwood. I don’t want him burning himself out too soon. When the Doctor starts sending people “straight to hell”, or twenty useless brats join the TARDIS crew, we’ll have our clue.

But, wow.

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3 Responses to “Torchwood”


  1. Andy
    October 16th, 2005 at 8:56 pm

    Welcome to the sci-fi spin-off club. We here at Stargate have been enjoying a spin-off for two years now and one can only hope that Torchwood is as good. I look forward to the dark, clever, wild, sexy, British crime/sci-fi paranoid thriller action/adventure soap cop show with a sense of humour set in Cardiff.


  2. Tom
    October 16th, 2005 at 9:13 pm

    Don’t ye be casting aspersions. Look at all those genres. Torchwood at least has the advantage of specifically not wanting to be a more-or-less carbon copy of it’s parent show. Hopefully it’ll be more Angel than Atlantis.

    Although, Cardiff? Well, alright then. As someone’s pointed out, there’s a Hellmouth-esque ‘Rift’ just sitting there in Cardiff waiting to justify some spurious plot points.

    It can only do better than Who’s previous attempt at a spin-off, K9 and Company. Has everyone noticed the cunning/lame acronym?


  3. Shannon
    October 17th, 2005 at 1:50 am

    Anything that has John Barrowman in it has my vote. Hooray! I hope the find a lame excuse to do a musical episode…

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