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The Doctor
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Torchwood is a British television science fiction and crime drama created by Russell T. Davies and starring John Barrowman and Eve Myles. It was commissioned by the BBC as a spin-off of the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who. An in-house BBC Wales production for digital television station BBC Three, it is the first television spin-off of Doctor Who since the unsuccessful pilot of K-9 and Company in 1981 and the first to be commissioned for a full 13-part series. The title "Torchwood" is an anagram of "Doctor Who." BBC Wales Head of Drama Julie Gardner will serve as executive producer alongside Davies. Torchwood is set to premiere in Autumn 2006 on BBC Three.
Torchwood is to be set in contemporary Cardiff, and features a group of "renegade" criminal investigators. Aside from investigating human and alien crime, they are also charged by the British government to covertly investigate alien technology without the knowledge of the United Nations. The main writer alongside Davies will be Chris Chibnall, creator of the BBC light drama series Born and Bred, and other confirmed writers include P.J. Hammond, creator of the cult 1980s ATV science fiction series Sapphire & Steel and Toby Whithouse (No Angels and Hotel Babylon). According to the December 2005 issue of SFX, Russell T. Davies will write just two of the thirteen episodes.
In the announcement, on October 17, 2005, BBC Three controller Stuart Murphy said "Torchwood is sinister and psychological... as well as being very British and modern and real." Davies himself has characterised the series concept as "a dark, clever, wild, sexy, British crime/sci-fi paranoid thriller cop show with a sense of humour — The X-Files meets This Life."
John Barrowman as Jack Harkness and Eve Myles as Gwen CooperThe series will star John Barrowman as Jack Harkness, one of the Ninth Doctor's companions from the 2005 season of Doctor Who. Issue 363 of Doctor Who Magazine, published in November 2005, revealed that the series will feature another regular named Gwen, and that Doctor Who director James Hawes would produce. The series will also share Doctor Who's production designer, Edward Thomas. In an interview with the magazine TV Zone, Hawes also revealed that, as well as producing, he would be the lead director for the series.
However, in January 2006, it was announced that Hawes would in fact not be involved in Torchwood, and another producer would be assigned in his place. According to Doctor Who and Torchwood executive producer Russell T. Davies in Doctor Who Magazine issue 366 (dated March 1, 2006), Hawes' direction of the BBC Four drama The Chatterley Affair had led him to change his mind about producing the series. "James Hawes has been having such a good time... that he's decided directing is his greatest passion, and as a result, he's stepped down." The same magazine also announced that Helen Raynor and Brian Minchin would be the script editors on the programme.
According to Davies, the name originated during production of the new Doctor Who series, when television pirates were eager to get their hands on the tapes. Someone in the production office suggested that the tapes be labelled "Torchwood" instead of "Doctor Who" to disguise their contents as they were being sent to London. Davies thought that was a clever idea and remembered the name.
As it is scheduled to be shown post-watershed, that is after 9.00 pm, it is also expected to have more mature content than the parent series. Davies told SFX magazine, "we can be a bit more visceral, more violent, and more sexual, if we want to. Though bear in mind that it’s very teenage to indulge yourself in blood and gore, and Torchwood is going to be smarter than that. But it’s the essential difference between BBC One at 7pm, and BBC Three at say, 9pm. That says it all — instinctively, every viewer can see the huge difference there." Davies also joked to a BBC Radio Wales interviewer that he was "not allowed" to refer to the series as "Doctor Who for grown-ups." In light of the anticipated difference in tone and content, some fans have begun to regard Torchwood as the Angel to Doctor Who's Buffy [1].
Interviewed on ITV1's afternoon chat show Loose Women on 18 October 2005, Barrowman suggested that the series might be repeated on BBC One sometime after its initial BBC Three airing. He also stated that it will not be revealed in the series how Jack Harkness has arrived in the early 21st century.
On 24 October, the Scottish tabloid newspaper the Daily Record reported that singer Charlotte Church would be making an appearance in the series as a "raunchy, Satan-worshipping character". This had been reported earlier by The Daily Star. This was however denied by Russell T. Davies in Doctor Who Magazine #363.
On 11 November, msn.co.uk reported that singer Rachel Stevens had auditioned for a permanent role in Torchwood. This has not been confirmed by any official source.
In an appearance on BBC One's New Year's Eve programme, John Barrowman told an interviewer that he expected to begin filming for Torchwood in April; on 17 January 2006, fan site Outpost Gallifrey reported that the start of production "has been delayed until the summer, likely June or July." [2]
On February 23, 2006, news leaked that the role of Gwen will be played by Eve Myles, who previously appeared as Gwyneth in the Doctor Who episode The Unquiet Dead; this was later confirmed in a midnight release [3]. It remains to be seen if Myles's two similarly named characters are linked in any way. (The official Doctor Who website gave Gwen's surname as Cooper.) It was also announced that Toby Whithouse would be a member of the writing team, and that Richard Stokes would produce.
Commenting in The Western Mail [4], Myles describes her character: "Gwen starts off as a police officer in Cardiff and then gets involved in the Torchwood team.
"She's a very down-to-earth girl, kind and generous, but extremely ambitious, feisty, intelligent and witty. But she's also very human - she's really the girl next door. Because I'm playing her, I put a lot of me into it and I take a lot of my own characteristics."
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Good old wikipedia 
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The Doctor
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Lol, how did u no?! 
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Cos I had previously read it on there 
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The Doctor
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Ahhh! lol
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so when was it on or going to be on?
does that mean ive missed it?
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The series Torchwood is out later in the year
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