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| Myles set for Doctor Who spin-off Welsh actress Eve Myles is to play the lead female role in the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood. Myles will play the role of Gwen opposite John Barrowman in the 13-part serial, to be screened later this year. The drama, penned by Russell T Davies, will chart the adventures of a renegade team of crime investigators who solve both human and alien mysteries. Davies, who wrote the comeback series of Doctor Who, said he created the role specially for Myles. The new series, which centres around the character of Captain Jack, is due to begin filming in the summer and will be screened on BBC One and BBC Three. Anagram The drama is inspired by Doctor Who, but there will be no fictional crossover between the two programmes. It is intended for a post-watershed audience. Myles, whose previous credits include appearing alongside Sir Michael Gambon in a National Theatre production of Henry IV, appeared in the first series of the revived Doctor Who. "I've admired Eve's w**k for years, and when she was able to guest-star in Doctor Who last year, it just confirmed to me that she was one of Wales's best-kept secrets," said Swansea-born Davies. The "sexy, funny" spin-off, whose name is an anagram of Doctor Who, will be set in Cardiff. "Doctor Who has a completely different feel to this kind of thing. This is set in the same place every week. It's a different sort of fun to Doctor Who," said Davies. "It's an urban series, very much set on Earth," he added. Story from BBC NEWS: |
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| Please tell me she's not the Prime Minister/former prime minister who appeared in the episode World War Three & the Christmas special? |
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You're safe. You'r thinking of Penelope Wilton. I don't recall Eve Myles. Goody. Cardiff. Haven't seen Dr Who in Cardiff for ages :whistling: |
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| Wasn't she in the Charles Dickins one ? She was a maid or something. :shrug: |
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| Torchwood Ignites In May Russell T. Davies, writer-producer of the current Doctor Who revival airing on SCI FI Channel, told SCI FI Wire that the much-anticipated spinoff entitled Torchwood will begin production soon. "We start filming in May, and we should be on in this country [England] in October," Davies said in an interview. "So we'll have two shows running simultaneously, which will be fun." 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." —Ian Spelling |
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| Juggling Who And Torchwood Russell T. Davies, executive producer of the Doctor Who revival currently airing on SCI FI Channel, told SCI FI Wire that he's not worried about the possibility of spreading himself too thin this spring, when he sets about producing the second season of his hit SF show and launching its spinoff, Torchwood. "It's actually not as busy as you think," Davies said in an interview. "American series run for 22, 23 or 24 episodes a year, and we've only got 13 episodes a [season]. So it's really no heavier than an American workload, and you all seem to survive!" Davies added: "Unfortunately, I have a suspicion that your executives are chauffeur limo-ed from meeting to meeting, whereas I have to get the bus. But there are a lot of systems in place, and there's a huge team here. So we've spent a long time setting up Torchwood, to make sure that both shows can run simultaneously." Torchwood—the title is an anagram of "Doctor Who"—stars John Barrowman, who reprises his Who character of Captain Jack Harkness. Davies described Torchwood as "a bit more of a formula" show than Doctor Who. As a result, he can focus more of his energy on Doctor Who than Torchwood. "It's more capable of running itself," Davies said. "And we must always remember that Doctor Who is the parent show and is the show that gets the 44 percent share of the audience [in the United Kingdom, where it is a huge hit], so that's the show that I will always be looking after. That's where my heart is as well. Despite the fact that I created Torchwood, Doctor Who needs constant love and attention." |
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| BBC's Torchwood Has U.S. Roots Julie Gardner, executive producer of the BBC series Torchwood and head of drama development for BBC Wales, told SCI FI Wire that the series grew out of a fascination with American science fiction TV shows, particularly those on the air in the 1990s. Gardner and Russell T. Davies, the lead writer of both Torchwood and Doctor Who, met during a time of such shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Smallville and Battlestar Galactica, Gardner said in an interview. "And Russell and I were watching all of those shows," she recalled. "And every week we would talk about those shows with so much kind of love and kind of detail. And we would talk about why we weren't doing those kinds of shows in Britain." In that spirit, Gardner and Davies developed a script for a science fiction series called Excalibur, which centered on a team of paranormal investigators. "It was a kind of [an] urban-landscape, present-day series," Gardner said. "And the scene that Russell in his two-page pitch described was the scene where there was this sexy group of investigators in an alleyway at night, it's raining, a corpse is on the ground, and one of them brings out a glove and is able to bring the corpse back to life, which is, of course, the central first scene in Episode 1 of what became Torchwood." The project was put on hold when Davies was tapped to oversee the new incarnation of Doctor Who, but following the success of that revival, he and Gardner returned to their idea with a new twist that tied into the Doctor Who universe. "We had a great crew working on Doctor Who, and we thought it would be a great thing to kind of keep that team together, but stretch their creative muscles in a different direction," Gardner said. "To do something very different. And Torchwood was born out of the Excalibur idea, because we loved working with John Barrowman on the first season of Doctor Who. His character of Captain Jack had really taken hold of people's imagination. And we knew that the public was really responding to that character. So it made a huge amount of sense to take the Captain Jack figure and put him into the show that eventually became Torchwood." Gardner added that while Doctor Who has a traditionally British feel to it, Torchwood's American influences are evident in the premise. "I guess you could describe it as more American in terms of it's slightly precinct-based," she said. "It's the story of the week every week. It's a sci-fi show that is rooted in the Earth. It's not a sci-fi show [like] Doctor Who [that] travels in galaxies and time and space. It's a kind of X-Files in some [sense], in terms of the stories of the week and how rooted that is." |
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| Torchwood Friday 14 September 9:00pm - 9:50pm BBC3 Everything Changes Science-fiction and crime drama created by Russell T Davies dealing with the machinations and activities of the fictional Torchwood Institute in Cardiff. VIDEO Plus+: 6460375 Subtitled, Widescreen Cast John Barrowman,Eve Myles,Burn Gorman |