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Steven Moffat has admitted that he’d only consider bringing Captain Jack back to Doctor Who if the plot required it.
While John Barrowman has been open about his desire to return to the series, the showrunner has told TVLine that it all depends on the circumstances of the story. “When we’ve got a good story, we’ll do it,” he said. “You can’t just bring somebody back and say, ‘That’s a story’. It’s not, ‘How do you bring Captain Jack back?’. I’ll be thinking, ‘You know what this needs? We need to bring Jack back for it’.”
He goes on to reveal that it was only John’s priorities on Miracle Day that stopped Jack from making a comeback in A Good Man Goes to War. He added: “I’d have brought him back, because it would be obvious for him to call upon Jack in those circumstances.”
“Torchwood and Jack were born from the mothership, which is Doctor Who,” he is quoted as saying in BBC America’s coverage of the panel. “I think it would be great, and for the 50th anniversary, I think it would be a disappointment for a character like Jack not to make an appearance.” Jack’s return has previously been discussed by Steven Moffat.
So, would you like to see Jack back for the big 50th? Share your views in the comments!
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The Torchwood cast and crew participated in a Q&A panel at San Diego Comic Con today, and you can see some great photos of the event on the Starz Flickr!
Digital Spy has a live blog of what was revealed during the panel, with one of the most intriguing revelations concerning Episode 7 of Miracle Day, which John described as “heavy and shocking”. “You learn a lot about Jack and Gwen in that episode,” he teased. “Russell said that episode was a gift to what we’d done before. You’re going to love that episode.”
A brand new trailer for the series was also premiered, which you can watch online here.
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Things are really starting to hot up for Jack and Gwen after tonight’s episode, and all the drama is only going to get greater as the story continues in Episode 3, Dead of Night.
As Torchwood goes on the run, they find a new enemy, but as they launch a raid on PhiCorp headquarters, Jack must confront the mysterious Oswald Danes.
Dead of Night airs in the UK next Thursday on BBC One at 9pm. Watch the TV trail here or below!
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It was confirmed last month that alternative versions of Miracle Day will be aired in the UK and the US, and it seems that Episode 3 will feature the biggest difference yet.
The BBC’s Torchwood Twitter has revealed that the UK cut of the episode will “differ slightly” to the US Starz one, and The Sun newspaper has reported more details about what’s been removed. It’s thought that BBC One has opted to tone down an explicit scene between Jack and a barman as it has been deemed unsuitable for British primetime TV.
“It wasn’t that it was a gay scene that worried people, but just the fact it was such an explicit sex scene, full stop,” a source said. “You can get away with scenes like that on American cable channels, but you can’t on primetime BBC One. Even though it airs after the watershed, it has a lot of young fans who would have been shocked.”
A BBC spokeswoman has added that the changes “do not change the story in any way”.
The BBC’s now issued an official statement on its Complaints site explaining further:
It is not unusual for co-productions to have slightly different versions of a show to reflect its different audiences. For episode three of Torchwood, as part of the usual discussions between broadcasters and the production company, small potential edits in two intercutting scenes of gay and straight sex were discussed and made by production. This minimal edit makes little difference to the episode to be broadcast in the UK. Both scenes remain but run a few seconds shorter than the US version. In a later episode a sequence of gay sex is important to the story and therefore both the US and UK will show the same version.
Torchwood continues to be a series that will ask important questions of how we all live in today’s society and the drama reflects life as we recognise it. The BBC and Starz have both been huge supporters of the writers’ vision for the series.
Do you agree with the BBC’s decision to cut the scenes? Let us know below! The episode in question, Dead of Night, airs in the US this Friday night and next Thursday in the UK.
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Episode two of Miracle Day, Rendition, has now aired in the US, Canada and Australia (what did you think?), but fans in the UK have got a little longer to wait.
To help pass the time, the BBC has released a lengthy new clip from the episode, which you can watch here or below. In the episode, a flight to the US turns into a desperate fight for survival as Jack realises he’s the most vulnerable man on Earth. It airs on Thursday at BBC One on 9pm and will be repeated on Monday 25th July on BBC Two at 11:20pm.
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The first episode of Miracle Day, The New World, aired in the UK last night to an overall positive response!
According to the Independent, the “jam-packed” opening episode was “addictive to watch”, serving as reassurance that “Torchwood is here to stay”. The Telegraph has also spoken highly of the “enjoyable” first episode, summarising: “Compared with much of the rubbish that is inflicted on us in the summer, it looks set to be gripping and intriguing – just not necessarily for viewers with queasy stomachs”…
The Guardian’s commented: “It’s bigger and bolder, louder and more ambitious”, and SFX have given it a rating of 4 out of 5, describing it as a “a series worth sticking with”.
So, do you agree/disagree with any of the reviews? Have YOUR say in our discussion!
Meanwhile, over in the ratings department, the episode was watched by an audience of 4.8million on BBC One, according to the overnights, which is a 21% share. Its premiere on Starz was watched by around 819,000 (10pm) and 687,000 (11pm), and an average of 432,000 tuned in for Jack’s comeback on SPACE in Canada. Great ratings all round!
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At the time of writing, the UK premiere of Miracle Day is just a few short hours away, and the official Torchwood site has posted two new videos to add to the last minute excitement!
In the first, John Barrowman discusses the long awaited return of Jack and reveals what he’ll be getting up to in the brand new series, while the second video is all about Gwen Cooper, as Eve Myles lifts the lid on the various challenges she’ll be facing in the latest adventure. It all kicks off tonight on BBC One at 9pm. The question is, are you ready?
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…and the UK is ready! The brand new series of Torchwood, Miracle Day, will at last have its official premiere in the UK tonight at 9pm on BBC One!
In the opening episode, The New World, Rex Matheson is impaled in a car crash and miraculously survives it, and his analyst, Esther Drummond, sets out to discover the truth behind the Torchwood institute. But when she meets Captain Jack Harkness, assassins are activated to kill them all, while far away, in Wales, Gwen Cooper lives in hiding.
As soon as it has aired, head over to our launch episode discussion to let us know what you thought of Jack and Gwen’s explosive returns. Of course, if you’ve already seen it (lucky you!), you can join the conversation right now!
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The premiere of Miracle Day is now just two days away in the UK, and the new behind the scenes featurette that’s been playing on the BBC Red Button since yesterday has now been made available to watch online!
In it, John Barrowman narrates an introduction to the new 10 part series, with cast and crew interviews, unseen clips and a handful of other interesting tidbits to increase the levels of excitement ahead of its long awaited debut on BBC One this Thursday night. See the featurette here or below!
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