Torchwood stars get interviewed

Here is an interview from yesterday's MCM Expo in London with four of the stars of Torchwood - Miracle Day:

(Possible) Bad News Part Deux

It seems that us UK fans might not get Torchwood: Miracle Day until after it is aired in the US on 8th July.

As tweeted by Lizo Mzimba:

Doesn't appear on BBC list of TV highlights for week up till 8th July. Not definitive but imagine a show like Torchwood would be highlight.

Hmm... that's a real shame. But good news to American fans who will be the first to experience something kinda Who before the UK does!

However, Lizo did praise the first episode, saying it was "fast paced and mysterious at same time" so maybe it will be worth the wait.

Video: Torchwood's new character promos

Starz has released a set of videos promoting Miracle Day with a character speaking about themselves and the story in each. Check it out below!

[MILD SPOILERS]

Hot Shots: Torchwood's Miracle Day

Check out some awesome shots from the next series of Torchwood.

  

Find the rest here, thanks to Combom!

Torchwood Radio

Woop! Torchwood is back on the radio!

After the success of Torchwood: Lost Souls (which you can listen to here) the good old BBC have decided to bring out three new radio plays with the Torchwood cast!

Three 45 minute episodes will air in Radio 4's Afternoon Play slot at 2.15pm. The three new radio plays bridge the gap between Torchwood: Lost Souls and the upcoming Torchwood: Children of Earth television series.

The episodes feature Captain Jack, Gwen & Ianto and have been recorded over the last two weeks. The episodes will be broadcast in advance of Torchwood: Children of Earth and will be available in the UK on BBC iPlayer and as a download for 7 days after broadcast.

Asylum by Anita Sullivan
The story of a teen runaway called Freda who is brought to the attention of Torchwood by PC Andy. As Gwen, Jack and Ianto investigate where this troubled girl has come from, Andy finds himself drawn closer than ever before into the world of Torchwood.

Golden Age by James Goss
Torchwood go to India to investigate the disappearance of hundreds of people. The trail leads them to an old colonial club which seems strangely stuck in the past as does its young and beautiful owner, the Duchess.

The Dead Line by Phil Ford
A series of mysterious phone calls lead Jack into danger, and result in 'a very emotional moment for Ianto'.

Read the full article here

News News

The usual media round up, lovingly gathered together by baraduim and the other people on the DWF

Lindsay Duncan coverage
Press Association - Thatcher star teams up with Doctor
CBBC - New Dr Who assistant revealed
WalesOnline - Lindsay Duncan to star in Doctor Who
BBC News - Duncan to play Doctor's sidekick
SyFy Portal - Lindsay Duncan Latest To Try Out For 'Doctor Who'
Den of Geek - Lindsay Duncan Joins The TARDIS

Torchwood
Watch - Exclusive Torchwood Magazine Comic Strip
Pop Culture Zoo - New Torchwood web comic online
Western Mail - Torchwood’s John Barrowman gets help for comic turn
Fear Net - New 'Torchwood' Season 3 Images!

Misc
The Sun - Evil Mugabe hoards lost Doctor Who tapes
Independent - mentions Freema refuting the rumours of falling out with RTD
What's on TV - New Doctor has 'got the right idea', says Tennant
Glasgow Evening Times - Look Who’s arrived from Cyber-space
Den of Geek - Doctor Who: live on stage?

Enjoy!

Torchwood Comic

This was just sent to me by email.

The new Torchwood magazine (issue 14) is coming out on the 19th Feb. Its featuring a new TW comic strip which was written by John and Carole Barrowman

'Captain Jack and the Selkie', sees Jack facing a deadly threat on a remote Scottish island, where people are disappearing one by one... To his horror, Jack starts to suspect he may know who, or perhaps more specifically, what is responsible...

Heres an interview between John and Carole where they discuss the strip

CB: Ready to chat about our Torchwood Magazine comic?
JB: Wait. Shouldn’t we have some sound effects if we’re making this read like a scene from ‘24’?

CB: Do you even know how to write sound effects? You’re the worst speller.
JB: I blame the doctor for that because when I was a kid I’d stay up late on Sunday nights when the classic DOCTOR WHO was on WTTW in Chicago so I’d never study for my Monday morning spelling tests. Add the sound effects later.

CB: Do you remember when we first got the idea to collaborate on a Captain Jack story?
JB: The summer when we were working together on Anything Goes. We were on location for Torchwood in a warehouse in Cardiff. I was filming the “Meat” episode.

CB: Wasn’t that the same shoot where the pigeon pooped on Jack’s shoulder? Now that was hilarious.
JB: That was good luck . . . the shoot was taking forever. Lots of green screen shots. I think I started making up ways that Jack could end the scene and we could all get home. Now that I think about it, we came up with some funny stuff . . . I still think we should do something someday with the idea of Jack and the–

CB: Shush!! . . . Can we tease shamelessly like that?
JB: [laughing] I think we just did. Anyway, I remember the endings we made up got more ridiculous the longer we all sat in that cold damp warehouse . . . you and I kept playing on the way home in the car.

CB: I’d forgotten about that . . . do you remember what we called the game?
JB: “What Would Jack Do?” . . . but the actual comic didn’t really take shape until Comic Con last summer in San Diego when we met Tommy Lee Edwards and Trevor Goring.

CB: It was the ‘Face of Boe’ poster that did it.
JB: The poster they created of Jack superimposed on the ‘Face of Boe’ still amazes me when I look at it. I framed it as soon as I got back to London. It’s on the wall in my office and I think it’s the best illustrated characterization of Jack that I’ve come across . . . until our comic is released that is.

CB: And you see a lot of images of Jack.
JB: Oh, yeah . . . so after Tommy, Trevor and I signed a batch of the posters, I asked them if they’d ever be interested in working with us on a graphic novel about Captain Jack.

CB: We had a graphic novel in our head because we had both recently read Neil Gaiman’s MARVEL 1602. You’d bought it to send home with me for Turner [my son], but we each ended up reading it first.
JB: Was that the one where the X-Men face the Spanish Inquisition?

CB: Uh, huh . . . they’re in Elizabethan England. Very clever stuff.
JB: Trevor and Tommy thought a collaboration sounded like a great idea and on the way home from Comic Con I knew that if we didn’t pursue the idea of the four of us working together right away, we’d all get busy with our individual work and it would never happen.

CB: Torchwood Magazine didn’t necessarily have a comic in mind did they?
JB: I don’t think so . . . but given that we’d just hooked up with two of the best artists in the comic world, as far as I was concerned, it made sense to pitch a comic . . . and then later when you and I were brainstorming on a story, I remembered you’d written something before about the myth of the selkie, and I thought it’d be a perfect plot to adapt for what, in my head, I was already calling a “Captain Jack Tale.”

CB: Except that my story had nothing to do with Torchwood or Captain Jack.
JB: Not then it didn’t but we worked that out between us . . . I’d always wanted to do something that put Jack in Scotland and your original story was set on an island off the Orkneys. Plus we’d already agreed to tell a story that showed a side of Jack and a part of his history that hadn’t been explored too much in other media . . . I wanted to give fans something original about Jack.

CB: What side of Jack do you think our comic foregrounds?
JB: I think we see Jack’s compassion . . . maybe his guilt. Plus his wicked skills with a harpoon!

CB: You’ve always been a comic fan, haven’t you?
JB: Oh, yeah. Love Spiderman, Batman, and definitely Captain America. . . I think it has something to do with when we immigrated to the States in the late 70s and I was trying hard to be an American kid. Couldn’t get enough of comics and Captain America . . . but I also love Superman–all the Justice League heroes for that matter.

CB: Do you remember the first mint condition comic you ever bought me when you could afford one?
SOUNDS OF SILENCE
CB: You haven’t got a clue, have you?
JB: A TIN TIN comic . . . plus a bunch of first edition ‘Noddy’ books.

CB: Nice save . . . so what do you think of ‘Captain Jack and The Selkie’ now that you’ve seen the finished product?
JB: I’m astonished. It’s brilliant work. The panels with the selkie are completely breathtaking . . . and Jack looks so damn good.

CB: When Tommy and Trevor sent the first colored panels, I just stared at them in stunned admiration.
JB: Tommy Lee, Trevor, John Workman on the lettering, Martin Eden at Torchwood Magazine, everyone worked really hard, but Tommy Lee especially, given the tight deadlines and budget constraints.

CB: Are you game for another one?
JB: !bOng! !bOng! !bOng!

For larger versions of the images, see here

Hooray!

Who News

More media joy, gathered together by baraduim and the other people on the DWF
Enjoy :)

Matt Smith
The Sun - Time...lord at the bar
Digital Spy - 'Who' star to earn £1m in five-year deal
Den of Geek - Matt Smith the Doc 'til 2014?
United Press International - 11th Doctor Who signs five-year deal
Los Angeles Times - 'Doctor Who' at a discount -- David Tennant's bargain replacement
SyFy Portal - Matt Smith Gets Minimum Wage As New Doctor
Now Magazine - Matt Smith will get £1m to play Doctor Who for 5 years
Wired - Doctor Who's Matt Smith Signs 5-Year Deal
Daily Mail - Who's that girl? Matt Smith in the cross-dressing role that helped land him role of the new Time Lord

Misc
Digital Spy - Doctor Who 'filming in Dubai'
Anglophenia - Photos: David Tennant and Michelle Ryan Steam Up Dubai
Bookseller - First graphic novel for BBC Books (The Dalek Project)
Daily Record - David Tennant the's best Doctor Who for me, says John Barrowman
EADT24 - Time with the Doctor - then to Blue Peter (Peter Purves)
Birmingham Mail - Rare Dr Who posters go on sale in Birmingham
io9 - The New Doctor has a set lifespan?

Events
The Mercury - Doctor Who wanders on stage (stageplay "Who, Knows")
Newton Abbey Times - charity event with DW and TW cast members
London SE1 - Mark Wallinger installs mirrored ‘Tardis’ at The Hayward
Standard - Reflective Doctor Who Tardis on show at Hayward Gallery

Torchwood
SyFy Portal - New 'Torchwood' Twice As Intense
Anglophenia - New York Comic-Con: Anglophenia Meets Eve Myles and Euros Lyn
TV Shows on DVD - The '3rd Season' of Torchwood on DVD & Blu-ray
Comic Book Resources - NYCC: Torchwood (panel with Eve Myles)

Related Items
Guardian - Is David Tennant really our greatest Shakespearean?
io9 - Doctor Who Goes Back To The Womb
Cinematical - Eva Green Will Clone the New Doctor Who
Digital Spy - Matt Smith, Eva Green for Womb
Weston and Somerset Mercury - Worle man turns shed into Tardis
Independent - My secret life: Freema Agyeman, actress, 29
Independent - Mark Wallinger: Mane attraction (Hayward Exhibition)
Broadway World - BBC America to Air 'Any Dream will Do' and 'The making of me: John Barrowman

Yay :)

More Whoniverse happenings, gathered together by baraduim and the people on the DWF.

Torchwood at the New York ComicCon
Multichannel - Eve Myles: N.Y.ers Are ‘Cheeky, Cheeky Monkeys'
Red Eye Chicago - Eve Myles gets cheeky at NYCC 'Torchwood' panel
IGN - Torchwood Season 3 Details Revealed
io9 - Eve Myles: "I Shoot Not One Gun, but Two!"
Multichannel - BBC America Gears Up for Season Three Torchwood
The Fear - New York Comic Con 2009: Exclusive -- 'Torchwood' Takes New York!

Videos: someone has kindly uploaded quite a lot of videos of the ComicCon interviews if you want to see them! Clicky here

Other Reports

USA Today, Comic Book Resources, Examiner

TW Trailer

South Wales Echo, Digital Spy, The Sun, Glasgow Daily Record, SFCrowsNest, ifMagazine, Zap2It, SciFi

Misc
The Sun - Former Time Lord's new battle with bottles
SyFy Portal - SyFy 6: Most Hilarious eBay Auctions
BBC News - In pictures: snow dalek
Kenilworth Weekly News - Daleks and Cybermen invade Kenilworth library for Dr Who Day

Womb (A new show with Smithy)
Total Film, MovieWeb, Zap2It

Yays!

News News

Bout time for another roundup, right?
Well here we are with thanks to the brilliant people on the DWF

Smithy
Metro - Im not a Doctor Who Fan
Western Mail - Being the new Doctor Who
WalesOnline - Smith Waxes lyrical about scarves & monsters
MyPark Magazine - Matt Smith has only just started watching Dr Who
BBC site - Word Smith

High Definition
Digital Spy - Doctor Who to film in high def

Torchwood trailer coverage
Guardian - Torchwood series 3 preview
Discover - Torchwood Trailer
Pop Culture Zoo - Torchwood series 3
SyFy Portal - New trailer out for Tochwood: Children of Earth
Blast Magazine - Torchwood Children of Earth trailer
TV Week - Torchwood turns up the heat
Zap2it - 15 minutes with Torchwood: Children of the Earth director Euros Lyn

Hooray!

Torchwood Trailer & Screencaps

Torchwood: The Children of Earth.

And heres a rundown of whats going on... 

I reckon I've got most of the words right, and its a guess on the characters but I think they're right as well. Let me know if you think otherwise :)

Colonel Oduya: As far as we can tell at 8.40 this morning, every single child in the world... stopped.

Clem: They're coming back

Ianto: [In the hub] Right where do we start, what are we looking for?

Lois Habiba: Everyone in the office seems to think that whats happening with the kids is something to do with aliens

Children: WE

Jack: [On phone to Mr Frobisher] Tell me, you said them. Have they come back?

Bridget Spears: Its happened again

Mr Frobisher: Thats what everyone seems to be asking. When were they here before?

Children: WE ARE

Brain Greene: You never told me. I was never part of it.

Clem: They were there. In the sky.

Children: WE ARE COMING

Mr Frobisher: I need that whole team out of the way by tonight. Get it done.

BANG!

Johnson: Target ones eliminated, two and three have escaped but were in pursuit.

RUN IANTO!

Mr Frobisher: If he talks were in deep, deep shit.

Rhiannon Evans: (Ianto's sister!) What kind of civil servants are you?

Ianto: Unappreciated ones
Then shots of:

Jack!

Clem running!

Stair explorers!

Rhys and fire!

Gwen shooting guns while leaping out of an ambulance!

A mother smacking a soldier in the face with a paving slab!

The team running (Rupesh is at the back)

Clem pointing!

Janto!

A horribly burned man chained to the wall and screaming!

Johnson looking sinister!

Gwen shooting!

Jack being Jack-like! (Outside the Hub)

The horribly burned man being covered in goo!

Ianto looking intense!

Gwen running!

Mr Frobisher being blinded by light!

A horribly dead skeleton!

Jack looking intense!

Clem: They're back

Goo!

The end!

My guess is horribly dead skeleton becomes horribly burned man who becomes Jack who was in the explosion :)