The fourth season finale of Doctor Who (which featured Captain Jack, and his Torchwood team) drew an amazing 9.4 million viewers over here in the UK. The episode ended [SPOILER!] with Captain Jack returning to Torchwood - seemingly with Martha Jones and Mickey Smith in tow. There's been a long standing rumour that the two characters - former companions of the good Doctor - will be joining the Torchwood team for the third series.
Another rumour suggests they won't, and that the production team are looking to replace the fallen Tosh and Owen with brand new characters.
So what do you know? We know nothing at all!!
In other news, Character Options have released the first in a new wave of repackaged Doctor Who toys. They include Captain Jack Harkness, dressed in overcoat and equiped with his faithful revolver. The box states that this is series one Jack - but don't let it fool you!! It's the Jack we saw in the series three finale. And hooray! The face has been remoulded. It actually looks like John Barrowman now... and fangirls, the figure is quite flexible ;)
A new channel launches in October, here in the UK. 'Watch' replaces UK Gold +1, and will show repeats of 'modern programming' including the likes of Torchwood, Lark Rise to - Bloody Boring - Candleford and Mistresses.
There's more on the new channel here (courtesy of DigitalSpy).
Hopefully we'll have some news on series three sometimes soon...
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Hi, do you have any news on the air date of the radio-only episode? Nobody seems to know anything. (And I'm in the U.S., so hopefully I'll be able to listen to it online.)
Thanks for keeping the blog up to date!
Cheers,
Deb
I don't think there is a date for the radio-only play but I can tell you that it will be available on CD on 11-Sep (at least in the UK) and its called Lost Souls. Based on that, it should be coming soon.
i hope that martha joins, i don't want mickey to though i can't stand him!
exact opposite here. Mickey seems to have grown a set of stones while on the parallel Earth (maybe trying to live up to 'Ricky's rep). Although I didnt care for him on DW I'd be willing to see him try TW. But Martha's done TW and the writers don't know how to write for her. She should go back to London and just be a Dr. IMHO of course.
I agree re Mickey. I can just see his irreverence towards Jack ruffle Ianto and Gwen's feathers :).
I enjoyed Martha, and we know she's in the audio story, so I guess she's a bit of a given.
do not see what Mickey would add he was unimportant at best on DW and realy did not like him. about Martha like her and they do need a medical person
In today's Guardian (14/07/2008) there is an interview with John Barrowman connected with the tv show The Making of Me to be shown on BBC1 24th July at 9pm. The show details "John Barrowman challenges scientists to explain why he's gay. With the help of friends, family and geneticists, John goes through the mill to answer a question that affects us all - is it nature or nurture that makes us who we are?"
Thanks for the link. JB is made of awesome and totally rocks.
I agree with the positive comments on mickey...he is now just a tough guy (as opposed to the early mikey on DW) that could add something tot he TW team. I don't care for Martha much, frankly I question her acting. Best of all though would be to have two new characters on TW. Let it be its own show and not simply a DW spinoff.
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