Confession time: I've been out of the Torchwood news loop the last couple of weeks. You know how it is - summertime comes, and all you wanna do is hang outside in the blistering sun. What happens then, when you're out of the loop, is things usually catch up with you and bite you on the ass. Like the latest issue of Torchwood Magazine - which, despite it being out a full week, I only just got...
And it's got news! About season three! Oh, indeedy!
The magazine confirms that Torchwood's third year will consist of five one hour episodes, to be broadcast over one week (presumably Monday through to Friday) sometime in Spring 2009.
The new series producer is a chap called Peter Bennett, who previously worked as a First Assistant Director on both 'Wood and Doctor Who. All five episodes will be directed by one individual - Euros Lyn, who's directed many-a Doctor Who episodes, including Steven Moffat's genius "The Girl in the Fireplace".
Writers for the series are:
EP 1: Russell T Davies
EP 2: John Fay
EP 3: James Moran
EP 4: John Fay
EP 5: John Fay
The series (which began pre-production on June 15th) will still be aimed towards a post-watershed audience - although, according to Julie Gardner, there are no sex scenes whatsoever next year!!
One current rumour suggests that [SPOILER - highlight to reveal] the story arc for season three revisits the Sleeper agents from James Moran's "Sleeper" episode, as their stealth invasion begins...
Julie Gardner reveals more about the third season in a short interview with the magazine; but we won't spoil that here! You'll have to go out and catch it for yourselves, from all good newsagents!
Torchwood Mag, issue 7, also features a behind the scenes look at the Torchwood segments of the Doctor Who series four finale. It's available now, from the aforementioned newsagents, priced £3.75.
Also on news stands now is Doctor Who Magazine 398, which interviews John Barrowman, Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd (not to mention EVERYBODY ELSE who appeared in the 'Who finale). That magazine, which includes its very own Torchwood cover, is out now at £3.99.
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I can't WAIT! Thanks from the US, JackHarkenss!
were supposed to be bought off by the fact that they are giving us 5 episodes when in fact they are just doing it to write the series off so they don't have to deal with it again, because truth is - they messed up an idea that could have been so damn good. thanks beeb.
Who is John Fay?
Also I hope that rumor is not true, coz the series 2 episode works well as its own stand-alone story!
John Fay
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0269581/
I've been told "Mobile" was really good.
were supposed to be bought off by the fact that they are giving us 5 episodes when in fact they are just doing it to write the series off so they don't have to deal with it again
Yeah bastards! They're doing the same with that other show, Doctor Who!
Apparently, Freema will not be appearing in Series 3 of Torchwood due to a conflict of interest. She has just accepted a role on new ITV spinoff "Law and Order: London" as a prosecuter. The BBC were fuming. This has been posted on several sites (including the Sun), main link on sylvestermccoy.com
"Sleeper" is a fantastic episode, and a terrible stand-alone; it ends with a setup for a sequel. They're already among us; if they never activated, that would be kind of dumb.
I don't think they're only giving us 5 episodes to end the show. I think it has to do with their budget at the BBC, which is another reason why Doctor Who is taking a year off as well.
I do hope that Martha is able to appear; she's so much cooler when she's on Torchwood - especially after that scene with her & Jack on Who. ;-0)
Oh, anonymous #1.
Budgets across the board have been dramatically tightened at the BBC - that's been public knowledge for ages but we're only just starting to feel the effects.
I'm glad they're concentrating on quality rather than quantity, stretching the reduced budget over a full season, and I'm very glad we're still getting something.
TW is a hit, and I don't believe for a second its future has already been decided - it's odd how we accept five episodes of 2009 Who as a 'rest' pending a full season 5 in 2010, and yet assume that five episodes of TW in 2009 automatically means cancellation.
It moved up from BBC3 to BBC2 to BBC1, was shuffled round in the schedules because it was popular and it was hoped it would revive BBC ratings on primetime days, and if the BBC really wanted rid of the show, well, they just plain wouldn't make any more.
There's been no evidence or official suggestion that season three is the end, just the same knee-jerk speculation people resorted to at the end of season one; all this pessimism is completely unwarranted.
Phew! Sorry about that, touched a nerve. As ever, thanks Jack for keeping us informed - hugs!!
David Tennant also asked for this schedule so he could do other things. I think I read that in The Mirror some time ago, and they obliged him so they don't lose him.
No more regenerations, darnit!
I loved Sleeper, it was a good concept and the fact that they focused on a character instead of a Sci-Fi badie story was good. I think the sleepers are one of the best torchwood monsters*, so of all they could have picked I'm glad it's this one. I hope they don't bring Beth back, her story was perfect and should close nicely like this. I hope we see spaceships though. Although it had better not be just the Sleepers, there should be at least one other badie in there. I mean, they have five hours.
*I mean, let's think about it:
Sex Monster: Torchwood would turn into 5 hours of porn. 2/5
Cybermen: Would interfere with DW. 1/5
Faeries: They would be cool, especially if we could explore their characters, but the CG would get horrible by the end. 4/5
Butterfly People: No. 0/5
Resurrection/Glove Makers: This would be a cool concept, but resurrection gets old after a while. Season 4 might be a good time.
Demon...things: Only if we get a Buffy crossover. Oh wait... 1/5
Adam's Race: Would get confusing after a while. 2/5
Death: I would actually like to see this concept again, but like I said wait for S4.
Shapeshifters: Would loose punch after a while. 3/5
Ghost Film People Things: They're good, and I hope to see them again sometime, but only in 1 eppy. 4/5
Sleepers: A nice creepy concept that can be explored, although it might decrease the strength of Beth's story if they don't do it right. 4/5.
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