Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Preview: Episode Two

What's it called?

"Sleeper"

Who's it credited to?

James Moran, writer ("Severance") and Colin Teague, director ("Ghost Machine", "Greeks Bearing Gifts")

What do we know?

Aliens walk the Earth - sleeper soldiers preparing to invade the world. Jack and the team investigate, after a burglary goes horribly wrong...

Major guest stars?

Nikki Amuka-Bird (who you might have seen in "Five Days" and "The Whistleblowers") plays Torchwood suspect, Beth. Paul Kasey makes an appearence as a Weevil, and Kai Owen - still not a regular, apparently - plays Rhys Williams. Somebody give him a promotion!

Reviewing the reviews

The Radio Times review makes for a very dry read, and it's not clear if the reviewer enjoyed what he saw or not. There's evidence both ways. Meanwhile most other reviewers (especially DigitalSpy) seem in the "it's great" camp.

When's it on?

Tonight, on BBC Two at 9pm. It's repeated at 11:25pm over on BBC Three, and then tomorrow (again on BBC Two) from 7pm.

What about America?

"Sleeper" is scheduled to air on BBC America on Saturday 2nd February from 9pm. The BBC America schedule can be found here.

You can also catch the show in High Definition - on HD-Net - February 18th.

Look to the future...

Next week's episode is "To the Last Man" and sees Toshiko meeting her ideal man - but he's more Austin Powers than your traditional metrosexual. Then, in "Meat", the secret is out as Rhys dicovers the truth about Torchwood...

Excitement level?

**** - I liked "Severance" a lot, and if the episode is half as funny as his blog, then James Moran should deliver us a treat.

10 comments:

Gaz said...

Cool but I don't think I can watch it anymore :'(

Anonymous said...

why not???


im defiantley going to watch it!

Gaz said...

Well because my parents say it's "on too late" and "not for my age group"

Mean people.

Kyle said...

Oh that bites. Responsible parents can be such a pain ;-) Would you be able to watch the pre-watershed version? Or are you a "all or nothin'" type of guy?

It's a special kind of torture knowing there's something you want to watch on tv but the 'rents say no.

S.J.Elliot said...

Well tomorrow they're doing the cut version which is more suitable for younger views. On at 7 on BB2 so not to late either.

Great episode. Enjoyed it.

S.J.Elliot said...

P.S what's with Ianto's accent? Also i'm enjoying his character evne more. ( i loved the character before but he's getting even better :D)

Anonymous said...

That episode was brilliant! Ianto is so funny and I love his character so much! Him and Jack's one liners are so funny! Bring on episode 3!!!!

Anonymous said...

Where was Rhys in the episode?

Anonymous said...

That was one of the best episodes yet!
Totally in love with Ianto, he's the witty cutie rather then the coffee man now :P
Can't wait for the next episode!

Anonymous said...

gas- there's always youtube. That's what we adult yanks have to watch until this Saturday. You might try asking the rents to watch it with you so they can explain the parts that they feel are above your age. It will give them a chance to explain a *bit* of their morality to you. Which you can agree with (or not :D) but at least you get to see the show.