Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Eleventh Heaven

For months, we've speculated over when exactly in Doctor Who's third season the return of Captain Jack Harkness will take place. For a while it looked as though it'd be in Steven Moffat's own episode ten (2007's "cheap" episode) - but since filming of this conflicts with John Barrowman's panto appearences, this rumour has since been disproven.

OK! MAGAZINE ARRIVES AT JOHN BARROWMAN'S WEDDING RECEPTION...

Now, it appears, David Tennant has confirmed the date for Jack's returnt to the TARDIS. In a Radio One Christmas interview, David tells Jo Whiley that Jack returns in the season's eleventh episode (scripted by Russell T Davies). This will not be a Doctor Who / Torchwood crossover episode; although elements from the forthcoming Torchwood finale are thought to pave the way for Jack's return to 'Who. As to what these are, well... you'll just have to watch the two hour finale next Monday evening on BBC Three!

Tomorrow, all John Barrowman fans, sees John marry his long time partner Scott Gill in a Civil Partnership. The entire torchwood.tv wishes John the best of luck in this most special of days - although we are sad to see that our invitations were lost in the Christmas post...

Seriously though, after all the hard work he's put into Doctor Who and Torchwood these past few years, nobody deserves to be happier than John Barrowman. We hope your big day is everything you want it to be, and more.

Before we go, let me just tell you what I picked up today, whilst sale shopping in Manchester City. For a wallet busting £17.99, I found my copy of the Torchwood Series One (Part One) DVD. I've seen all of the special features on offer, and will update about them in the coming days.

Don't get too excited. The deleted scenes aren't much cop...

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

do u no hw long the thingis stayin there?

Anonymous said...

OY, he hasn't been a "bachelor" for over 16 years...thats how long he and his partner have been together.

Anonymous said...

I listenned to a broadcast, and Jack doesn't return in the season's third episode, he returns in episode 11.

Anonymous said...

evil demandred, that's what I heared too, but then who knows???? Mayhap this is new updated information. We know that John "had to start memorising his lines" for who after torchwood filming finished. Does anybody know what filming block they are up to in who right now??? That would give us an indication.

Episode 3 is also the episode in which the doctor gets talked to by the face of boe (according to Outpost G.)... exiting stuff no, lots of possibilities NOW WHO KNOWS WHAT FILMING BLOCK THEY ARE UP TO??????

Anonymous said...

sorry, my bad - a typo! I meant that Jack returns in season THREE episode ELEVEN! :( Don't hate me!

Anonymous said...

mqmuGot my Torchwood dvd in the post saturday morning :-)
Got my tickets to see John in panto too!

From what I hear, final block starts shooting early Feb ... but dont quote me on that....

Anonymous said...

jackharkness, damn you!!!! I thought we were all in for a much bigger installment of jack than we are, ah well so much for all my wheeling and deeling and face of boe trying to draw connections-ing. Ah well i can't hate you too much because I enjoy reading you're posts- on this blog at least. Mind you when I went to the one you do about brittish film in general... just pulling you're leg, it's all good jackie boy(or girl but somehow i think boy) but still- Damn you!!!!

Anonymous said...

Just bought my copy of torchwood s1 part1 will be watching it later, but sad there are no commentarys! Good luck to John he totally deserves it!

Anonymous said...

On a slightly different tangent, does anybody else think this episode of the forthcoming series might herald a Torchwood crossover of sorts?

Bear in mind this memo from the Torchwood site (which may or may not be canon) and David Tenant's apparently throwaway remark during the Q&A at the Doctor Who: A Celebration concert.

Cryptic. Moi?

Anonymous said...

I'm actually disappointed with the DVD. There is nothing new on it that hasn't been seen on the Torchwood de-clasified. I agree the deleted scenes are not up to much. It advertises 5 Torchwood featurettes and Jack's arrival at Torchwood, but I couldn't find anything new there.

Nice to be able to watch the old episodes again but thats all.

Anonymous said...

whatsianame, I can't get the QA thing, what comment?

Anonymous said...

While discussing his childhood memories of Genesis of the Daleks, Tenant mentioned a "Dalek genetic laboratory" and then turned to RTD, suggesting knowingly, "That sounds like a good idea." (I'm paraphrasing, but you get the idea.)

Anonymous said...

On the deleted scenes, did anyone else experience sound problems with the second deleted scene for Everything Changes and the first deleted scene for Ghost Machine?