TV Today: It’s been a fun week producing so much Torchwood-related content. Thanks to everyone who’s enjoyed what we’ve produced and given us such great feedback, be it on the site, by email or Twitter or on the various message boards around the internet that have...

TV Today: Saturday Play: Utz Radio 4, Saturday 2.30pm Gregory Norminton adapt Bruce Chatwin’s novel to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of his death. Kaspar Utz is a Prague-based collection of Meissen porcelain, and has managed to preserve his collection throughout his country’s turbulent past. A British academic...

TV Today: And so Torchwood Week starts to draw to a close here on TV Today, with the last of our interviews. After yesterday’s talk with Eve Myles, Wednesday’s conversation with Gareth David-Lloyd and our two-part interview with Russell T Davies on Monday and Tuesday, we’ve...

TV Today: Coronation Street (Friday 7.30/8.30pm, ITV1) A storyline that’s been bubbling away in the background for the last couple of months (and could still explode all over the cobbles somewhere down the line), takes a twist tonight as Maria gives birth to her baby, fathered by...

TV Today: I’ve had a somewhat uneven history with Torchwood. The first season, broadcast in 2006, didn’t do much for me. It started well enough, but within a few episodes had descended into a juvenile mess that really didn’t become the pedigree of the people making...

In The Paper: In this week’s issue of The Stage, writer/director Neil Bartlett suggests it may be the first time that many theatregoers have been inside a bingo hall, but that’s exactly where they will find themselves when attending his new show, Everybody Loves a Winner. Part...

TV Today: And so, as we enter into the home straight of our Torchwood Week here on TV Today, we follow up yesterday’s interview with Gareth David-Lloyd with a sit-down with Eve Myles, who plays Gwen Cooper. As with Gareth’s interview (and our two-part talk with...

Education and Training: Last night I was at O2 Arena for the launch of Voices for a Better World, a project to raise funds for dedicated children’s charities Global Angels and Arts by Children - two international organisations which work at a grass-roots level to support the needs of children around the world. The architecturally unlovely, noisy, crowd-pulling Disney-esque dome - with its weird ideas about courtesy (or lack of it) to the press, inadequate lavatories and inconvenient access is not exactly my favourite venue but all my frustrations and grumbles were...

TV Today: So the first of three Radio 4 Afternoon Plays featuring Cardiff’s least secret top-secret organisation, Torchwood: Asylum, has just finished. If you missed it, it’ll be available on iPlayer for seven days, and for UK licence fee payers is available as an MP3 download...

Podcasts: With screen roles including Stephen Poliakoff’s The Lost Prince and West End parts in Whistle Down the Wind and Fame, Matthew James Thomas’s highest profile role to date has been Jez Tyler on ITV1’s performing arts school-based musical drama Britannia High. He now returns to the stage, playing the...

TV Today: As part of our ongoing week of interviews and features about BBC1 science fiction drama Torchwood, today we interview Gareth David-Lloyd, who plays Ianto Jones. As with our previous interview with the show’s writer and producer Russell T Davies (read part 1 and part...

TV Today: We know that Torchwood is not only a success on television. As we highlighted in our weekly radio preview, the brand is also spreading onto radio — but since the series’ inception, BBC Books has been publishing a series of original novels featuring the...

TV Today: Previously on Torchwood Week: Russell T Davies, creator of Torchwood and head writer of the new series Children of Earth, talked about the way the storytelling changes as a result of the new five-episode, single-story format and the demands of hiring so many children....

TV Today: In honour of this being Torchwood Week here at TV Today, to get the ball rolling I thought I’d take a quick look at the nicely executed Torchwood website - the beginning of the Children of Earth experience for viewers ahead of next Monday’s...

TV Today: The Supersizers Eat… The Fifties BBC2, Monday 9pm Giles Coren and Sue Perkins’ travels through the culinary and cultural tastes of yesteryear reach a time in which Britain was just emerging from post-war austerity. As new ingredients such as olive oil and tinned salmon emerge,...