Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Ghost Watch
As well as commenting upon the casting of Burn Gorman and Naoko Mori, the magazine also exclusively reveals the director of the second block of filming on Torchwood (which consists of just two episodes). This particular block will be completed by Colin Teague, a director who has already headed up some notable episodes of Holby City (along with producer Richard Stokes). We wish Colin all the luck in the world, and here's hoping he produces some incredible episodes!
Colin's two episodes will not contain Noel Clarke's episode like previously thought. Instead, block two will contain a script by Toby Whithouse (Doctor Who - "School Reunion"), as well as script editor Helen Raynor's story, which has the working title of "The Ghost Machine". Now that's what I call an excellent episode title!
Below is an updated episode guide. Any spoilers associated with particular episodes will be printed in invisotext next to the title, so again, DO NOT HIGHLIGHT IF YOU WANT TO STAY SPOILER FREE! Don't say I didn't warn you! Information in brackets is currently awaiting confirmation.
EPISODE ONE - "Flotsam and Jetsam"
Written by: Russell. T. Davies, Directed by :Brian Kelly
Jack Harkness has returned from the far future, to modern day Cardiff where he's found a job working amongst Torchwood, an ultra secret military organisation. Jack believes that by staying near to the 'Rift' the Doctor will return one day and find him. Whilst investigating some alien gangsters (supposidly) he meets a police woman called Gwen Cooper, and soon Gwen has become part of Torchwood itself, replacing a former Torchwood operative named Suzie who has since gone rogue.
EPISODE TWO - "Dark Revelations (tbc)"
Written by: Chris Chibnall, Directed by: Brian Kelly
Current rumours suggest that during this episode Gwen Cooper's boyfriend learns the secret of Torchwood, and is taken over by a great evil. During the course of the episode Gwen learns exactly what it means to work for a top secret co-government agency.
EPISODE THREE(?) - "tbc"
Written by: Toby Whithouse, Directed by: Colin Teague
No details currently available. Bah!
EPISODE FOUR (?)- "tbc"
Written by: Noel Clarke, Directed by: (block three)
Noel appeared on GMTV last week and revealled that his episode is currently sheduled to be episode four of Torchwood. For now we'll continue to place the episode here. No specific details are yet available.
EPISODE FIVE (?) - "The Ghost Machine"
Written by: Helen Raynor, Directed by: Colin Teague
Thing's go bump in the night, but that's all I'm saying. The clue's in the name.
EPISODE SIX (?)- "Small World"
Written by: PJ Hammond, Directed by: (block three)
Gwen is still feeling her way in to the world of Torchwood, which she has just joined. This episode revolves around some "malevolent fairies". Hammond confirms in Dreamwatch magazine that the episode is no longer the third of the series.
OTHER EPISODES:
One more Russell.T.Davies script (possibly the finale)
At least three more Chris Chibnall scripts
A script by Si Spencer
And a quick note for fact fans: the first cast readthrough for Torchwood was Wednesday 26th April 2006, with actual filming commencing on Monday May 1st 2006. The first few weeks of filming were location shots as the team continue to settle into their new studio "Camelot".
And that's your lot for now! More news as we get it...and if anybody has any updates for our rough episode guide, then contact myself or Kurly and we'll be happy to make any changes.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Torchwood:High Definition Television!
Suzie is a rogue Torchwood operative that eventually gets replaced by our heroine Gwen (Eve Myles). I told you it was a pretty big spoiler!
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Can you take a letter please Ianto?

Source:hampsteadtheatre.com
It was announced today that Gareth David-Lloyd of Bettws, Wales will be Ianto, Torchwood's receptionist. I was hoping for that gig myself, since my typing speed is quite fast, but apparently I don't have a nice enough bum to work for the Institute.
Sunday, May 07, 2006
The fifth wheel?

Source: Doctor Who Confidential Screencap
Tracy-Ann Oberman of Eastenders fame will play a villian named Yvonne Hartman in the final two episodes of WHO this season. Elements of these episodes will lead right into the Torchwood series. In the Express newspaper last month Oberman said she will be playing the head of the Torchwood Institute. The speculation is that she will be in charge of a London-based Torchwood who has gone a bit astray, in league with the Cybermen and such.
None of the location reports last week spotted Oberman, so it might be a case of her exit/death leaving a spot for Jack to come in and head up a new reformed Torchwood Institute now based in Cardiff. If you are in Cardiff it looks like you will have a few chances to see the team on the streets in their range rover and look for more clues this week. A few shooting spots that have been mentioned are at the The Hayes, City Centre on Monday and then wednesday evening in the Pen and Wig pub.
No Torchwood references in The Girl in the Fireplace. The commentary features the writer of the episode Steven Moffat and Torchwood writer Noel Clarke, who is now better known as The Tin Dog.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
The Fantastic Four

Isn't it nice to finally get the complete picture? (well, near-complete I imagine) To any aliens out there who may be reading this, if you have plans to cause havoc on our planet, remember these faces.
Monday, April 24, 2006
Meet Owen Harper and Doctor Toshiko Sato!
Burn's casting was 'unoffically' announced a few weeks ago, though we had no idea of the character he was playing, or the significance of this role. Now it appears burn will be playing one of the four main leads, Owen Harper, Torchwood's resident medic. Burn was recently seen in both Bleak House and Layer Cake.

Source: http://www.stakesandstones.co.uk/
Meanwhile it's been confirmed that Naoko Mori will reprise her role of Doctor Sato, from Doctor Who Series One episode "Aliens of London". The scientist was seen there disecting a 'space-pig', and it's interesting to note that her scenes were Christopher Eccleston's first scenes as the Doctor recorded on screen! Already the woman's gone down in the Doctor Who history books.With two men, and two women, it would seem that the Torchwood team is now complete. Well, except for that 'mysterious leader' Russell T Davies is so keen to tease us about. Anyway, filming is confirmed as "Starting next month" so that's the closest confirmation we've had of a May filming date for Torchwood.
More news as we get it folks...
Monday, April 10, 2006
A Very Bleak House
BURN IN 2005'S "BLEAK HOUSE" ADAPTION ON BBC ONE
Burn starred along side Gillian Anderson in last year's adaption of Charles Dicken's Bleak House, a series nominated for four BAFTA awards. In 2004 the actor starred along new James Bond Daniel Craig in Layer Cake. He's appeared with a fair few of Britain's best talent then! It's unclear what role he'll play, whether he's simply a guest star, or one of the other two mysterious (as yet uncast) Torchwood members. Fingers crossed it's the latter.
In other news SFX Magazine want to hear from you. They want to hear the views of readers regarding future Doctor Who spin-offs. Would you like to see a second K9 And Company? How about the Adventures of Mickey Smith? What about a series starring everyones favorite, Adric (God no!!!). E-mail SFX at sfx@futurenet.co.uk and your comments could very well be published in a future edition of SFX Magazine. But hurry, you only have until 1st May!
Friday, March 17, 2006
The Final Four

Source:http://www.stakesandstones.co.uk
With full production (hopefully) less than a month off now, we should be getting some more casting news sooner rather than later. The preliminary publicity photo shoot featured only JB and Eve which means the remaining two "leads" will probably be minor players at the Institute.
My guess is we will soon get the announcement that a geeky scientist type and a saucy transvestite will be filling out the staff. Either that or the other spinoff rumour floating around might actually be referring to Torchwood. Yep, the last two missing members of the team are Sarah Jane and K9!
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Anything happen while I was gone?

Welcome all new readers to the page, we are getting noticed more and more everyday. We've been running strong since October. So new Woodies can go read the archives if you need to see for yourself how much time I wasted on writing posts about Charlotte Church and Rachel Stevens over the fall and winter. I know you old-time members of the Innuendo Squad are not that shocked about the Eve Myles announcement. SFX Magazine was the first with this information, and we covered it in December.
After I get over this jetlag, in the days to come I will fill you in more on newly announced producer Richard Stokes, writer Toby Whithouse and more on Ms. Myles of course.
Friday, February 24, 2006
Torchwood Overload (What A Fantastic Way To Celebrate 100 Posts!)
I had planned to celebrate somewhat differently with today's column, but to hell with it: for the first time in months we have real news about the series, and I think today would be the ideal time to share it with you all. Gear up, because Torchwood is coming...
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Ladies And Gentlemen We Have Our Lady (Hopefully!)
The BBC issued the following news statement (which has since been retracted!?!):
"Welsh actress Eve Myles is to play the lead female role in Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood. Myles will play the role of Gwen opposite John Barrowman in the 13-part serial, to be screened later this year. The drama, penned by Russell T Davies, will chart the adventures of a renegade team of crime investigators who solve both human and alien mysteries. Davies, who wrote the comeback series of Doctor Who, said he created the role especially for the actress. The new series, which centres on the character of Captain Jack, is due to begin filming in the summer and will be screened on BBC One and BBC Three. Anagram The drama is inspired by Doctor Who, but there will be no fictional crossover between the two programmes. It is intended for a post-watershed audience. Myles, whose previous credits include appearing alongside Sir Michael Gambon in a National Theatre production of Henry IV, appeared in the first series of the revived Doctor Who. Russell T Davies is writer and one of the new series' executive producers "I've admired Eve's work for years, and when she was able to guest-star in Doctor Who last year, it just confirmed to me that she was one of Wales's best-kept secrets," said Swansea-born Davies. The "sexy, funny" spin-off, whose name is an anagram of Doctor Who, will be set in Cardiff. "Doctor Who has a completely different feel to this kind of thing. This is set in the same place every week. It's a different sort of fun to Doctor Who," said Davies. "It's an urban series, very much set on Earth," he added."
Now, although this story is not yet official information, www.drwho-online.co.uk has sources 'confirming' its leads, and the link above does have the bbc domain printed upon it. As usual, I'll wait for a definate press release before I believe this story, but the signs are suggesting we take it with a lot less salt that usual. And if we do have our Gwen at last, let me be the first to say, doesn't she look fantastic. And Jack ain't bad either!
Welcome aboard Eve...Let you have many a good time ahead of you.
Saturday, February 04, 2006
Exclusive- Torchwood Publicity Photo!
Our inside sources here at Torchwood.TV have found one of the shots and can provide you with an exclusive sneak peak!

The mystery about Gwen has now finally been solved. Quite a surprise to be sure. But don't be so quick to judge, RTD has gone out on a limb before with his casting decisions and the results have been positive. Don't forget where you saw it first!
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
The casting couch

Source:http://www.chaotic-creative.com
Pryor is also the casting director on Doctor Who and is the guy who notified John Barrowman two summers ago that there was a perfect part for him in the revival of the show. He is casting director for the new Life on Mars drama as well which premiers later this month on BBC1, a show that also shares writer Chris Chibnall with Torchwood.
This brief post seems to already be longer than anything already on the web about Andy Pryor. Which is suprising since he has had his fingers in many high-profile projects including the films Trainspotting, Long Time Dead and Beautiful Thing, and the TV shows The Long Firm, Cutting It and Linda Green.
For all you thespians out there, his contact information is up online. If you think you have what it takes to be on Torchwood don't hesitate to send in your 8 by 10 to Andy. If you happen to be reading this Mr. Pryor, you wouldn't have a tiny little part for me on Torchwood would you? Perhaps as a reward for drumming up so much interest in the show here on my site. I'll play anything of course, even the guy who cleans the Torchwood Institute's alien-tech toilets.
Thursday, December 29, 2005
This month's Playboy pictorial: The girls of Torchwood

Source: screen capture from TCI featuring the late Daniel Llewellyn and Sally Jenkins
It obviously is quite easy to start Torchwood rumours so lets start plenty of juicy ones for the new year! The buxom model Jordan said she wants to be a villian on Doctor Who. She has this great idea of being a killer model who uses her boobs as weapons, but don't you think that would be a much better fit for Torchwood? Jack would not be able to resist her arsenal, even after they became deadly. But we wouldn't have to worry about him, he keeps weapons in strange places as well.
File it under wishfull speculation, but Sally Jacobs, the blonde communications expert from UNIT with the A+ blood really perked my attention in TCI. She was played by the Icelandic Anita Briem and would of course make a nice addition to Torchwood. OK, so she would probably have to be demoted for some reason to end up with the rabble-rousers in Cardiff but she could always serve as a liason of some sort between UNIT and Torchwood. Or just be involved in secret liasons, either way.
Now, just like that, we have enough up-n-comers to keep us busy through the time production starts in February or so. Feel free to start your own rumours as well, lets not rest until we have a few dozen potential Gwens.
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Stand back boys, Surfs up!
During the TCI program commentary (Which I must admit took me a while to sync up with the episode. It does seem a bit odd to release a commentary on the internet for a TV show that has already aired. Do you think the BBC is just accepting that everybody has downloaded the show? . . . nahh!) the Cardiff spacetime rift featured in The Unquiet Dead and Boomtown was mentioned in connection with Torchwood. The rift would obviously provide a great way for Jack to get to modern-day Cardiff from Satellite 5. Don't forget the Captain still has that groovy pan-dimensional surfboard. He last used it to set up a forcefield around the satellite in The Parting of the Ways and it should just be laying there waiting for him, ready to hit the waves. Jack's eyes really lit up when he first saw the surfboard and It might just provide a nice prop for him throughout the new show.

Source:http://www.stakesandstones.co.uk/
Also in connection with that same rift, in The Unquiet Dead we were introduced to a character named Gwyneth. She was the maid who communicated with the Gelth and stood at the rift to provide them a bridge to Cardiff. It has been reported that in the new issue of SFX Magazine they say that Eve Myles, the actress who played Gwyneth, is connected with Torchwood. Hmm . . . Gwyneth, seems like a familiar name to me, how about you?
Is this the Gwen we have been puzzling about? Logically it doesn't seem she could be since she supposedly died at the end of that episode. Well I say supposedly because she was standing on a spacetime rift at the moment of her demise. A clever writer could easily get her out of that fix.
Well we do already know that RTD likes to use the same names for different people in his writing and also doesn't that character seem a bit too virginal to be part of a Watershed show opposite the flirtatious Captain Jack? Well it could be that actress Eve Myles plays a completely different character. She is an up and coming Welsh actress after all. She currently plays a fiesty character named Ceri Lewis on the Welsh drama Belonging. You can also watch video of her online in a short called Say it with Flowers.
Coincidentally I'm sure, she made an appearance as a character on Eastenders called Young Gwen three years ago. But of most interest to Torchwood.TV readers she showed some skin on the spicy BBC2 miniseries Tales from Pleasure Beach in 2001. (Ok yes I know its the reason you read through this whole dumb post, so you can take a look at what Eve showed off during that show here, scroll to bottom. No need to thank me for doing the dirty work and finding that for you pervs!)
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Gwen the Great
Recapping what we know so far:
1. RTD says the following in DWM on November 9th, "The Doctor will be striding into 2006 with some truly astonishing adventures, with Jack and Gwen and the team following right behind!"
2. The Daily Mirror reports on November 21st that Rachel Stevens has auditioned for the part of Gwen on Torchwood opposite John Barrowman. (Interesting only for the Gwen reference)
3. John Barrowman tells fans backstage after opening night of Cinderella on December 9th that "Gwen isn't who you think she is."
4. The Independent's review of The Christmas Invasion on December 13th says that in the show Torchwood is a missile defense system.
5. Now today on the BBCs page dedicated to TCI there is a link to something called the Guinevere One Project which comes from the British Rocket Group. In the About Guinevere section we learn that a Welshman named Daniel Llewellyn named the Guinevere probe after Gwen the Great, the queen consort of King Arthur.
Regular readers may remember that I speculated on November 11th that investigating Guinevere might provide some clues. So might Jack pick Gwen up in his time travels? Perhaps Jack masqueraded as Lancelot in those missing two years and he rescued Gwen from being burned at the stake for adultery. Having Guinevere and Jack together on Torchwood would make a decent poker hand, a pair of queens!
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Just another Jewish English Princess (JEP)

Source:http://www.grin.nildram.co.uk/
Last week Stevens turned on the christmas lights in Belfast which apparently caused quite a riot. Rachel then started a tour of universities around the UK. She will be at the University of Wales in Bangor next week. (Maybe this show will coincide with her supposed final Torchwood audition) According to Mykindaplace.com her tour has not been going well and she has been playing to half-empty arenas.
Since Rachel's singing star has faded she will have to give up on the pop tunes and flaunt her other obvious assets on a small or large screen near you. But can she act? Well sadly I missed her cameo in Deuce Bigalow 2, but I heard she really showed her dramatic range in the film with her portrayal of a mud-covered character called "The Dirty Girl."
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Russell is an ageist!

Source:http://www.bbc.co.uk
While not as young as Peter Davision when he took on the role of the Doctor, David Tennant is a young 34. He will probably need a 50+ year old companion after Billie leaves the show in order for WHO to be in compliance with this new legislation.
John Barrowman is only 38 which means that the mysterious "Gwen" of Torchwood will have to be recruited from the geriatric set as well. So we obviously can't trust all these rumours about RTD trying out teen pop singers for the part. Nope it looks like the writing is on the wall, Gwen will be played by Angela Lansbury.
PS - Torchwood was unveiled as a sexier version of Doctor Who, but I wonder if it will ever get as kinky as this film.
Friday, October 28, 2005
Oh yeah? Well you have a fat head!

Source:http://www.angelfire.com/sk2/innit/a.html
In other news regarding CC, She is listed at 150 to 1 odds to be the next Bond Girl. While granted she is a bit of a longshot, she fairs a lot better than Abi Titmuss who is currently at 250 to 1 odds and suprisingly Billie Piper is nowhere to be seen! Personally I think the smart money is on Scarlett Johannson at 25 to 1. And if placing a bet on that weren't pathetic enough you can also put money down on whether of not Church will get married to Gavin. I wonder what the odds are that Charlotte will actually be in Torchwood, as that news still has yet to be officially confirmed.
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
John Barrowman on Loose Women
On the show, JB said that Torchwood might also air on BBC1 after its initial run on BBC3. He was tight lipped when questioned about how Jack Harkness gets to modern-day Cardiff. If you recall in the last episode of Doctor Who, The Parting of the Ways, he was stranded in the far future on Satellite 5.

Source:http://www.nrk.no/
Plus one more bit of gossip about the show. Charlotte Church, pictured above and wearing more clothes than usual, will have a role as a devil worshipper on the show. Seems like a good reason to go to Hell to me!


