Thursday, August 16, 2007

Stepping Inside the Hub

Following a successful year long, 13-episode run on Doctor Who Freema Agyeman is tranferring to the show's spin-off series in early 2008, if you didn't already know, once more playing Martha Jones. Freema has been in Cardiff recording and having cast read-throughs for over a month now, and at last the BBC Press Office has updated itself to acknowledge this fact:

MARTHA JONES AND THE TORCHWOOD TEAM

"Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) is back and reunited with Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) when she teams up with Torchwood (BBC Two) to help them solve a series of mysterious deaths in Cardiff.

Pictured here as she steps into the Hub for the first time, a more grown up and worldly-wise Martha brings her medical knowledge and the expertise learnt during her travels with The Doctor to help Torchwood do battle against an alien threat.

Freema Agyeman says: "Martha has grown up a lot since Doctor Who. She's now a fully qualified doctor and a bit hardened by life experiences. When she finds out that Captain Jack needs her help, she joins Torchwood for a while. She continues to develop her knowledge of alien intelligence, but this time keeping her feet on the ground.

"These will be invaluable skills to take back with her on future adventures with The Doctor. She outgrew The Doctor, in a sense, and so the next time they meet it will be in a more professional capacity. I'm so proud of her journey and who she has become.

"And for me as an actress, it's a great new challenge to be able to broaden and expand Martha as she develops in other directions for this more adult series. The Torchwood team are fabulous to work with and have made me very welcome."

Creator of Torchwood, Russell T Davies, says: "Freema is a wonderful actress and we want to give her the chance to add another dimension to Martha. She is going to cause some waves in the team – especially as she joins Torchwood at a point when everything is going to change for one of them."

Freema is one of many special guest stars appearing in the new series of Torchwood.

Richard Briers is the latest to join the line-up, playing Parker, a reclusive millionaire who is the keeper of alien secrets, much later in the series.

Alan Dale (Ugly Betty, Lost) and James Marsters (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) have also been confirmed.

The second series of Torchwood begins on BBC Two in the New Year and Martha will be starring half way through the series, appearing in three episodes."

Martha will then tranfer back to Doctor Who, in time to be reunited with the Doctor and his new companion, Donna Noble. Which is scarier, the Torchwood team or Donna, is debatable. Leave your comments and opinions below!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

IF Martha's fully qualified then quite a bit of time must have passed since she last saw Jack and left the doctor.

So when she return to DW we should expect Donna to be firmly established and a good bit of girly friction between the two (like Rose and Sarah Jane.)

I'm really looking forward to Torchwood returning - it's been too long between seasons.

Camera Obscura said...

Martha and Owen will be fun to watch. Especially w/ "the year that never was" between her and Jack.

Anonymous said...

I hate Martha, (Sorry, thats the way it is) Torchwood won't be right with her. everybody will disagree, I know, i never recovered from Rose leaving!!

Anonymous said...

I'm not too keen on Martha, but that might just be because I really liked Rose.

With 'the year that never was' Martha and Jack were seperate because she was walking across the world and he was in the space ship :-)

I do think that there will be some amusing friction between her and Owen tho, due to them both being doctors :-)

Anonymous said...

its gonna be funny watching a 'fully qualified' Martha and Owen attempt to work together, and see how Martha reacts to Jack and 'the year that never passed'. I'd also really like to see james marsters, as he is suppost to be another Jack love interest, and I really want to know who and what they mean when its written 'a point when everything is going to change for one of them'