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 been linking to us.
Here’s the full list of what you may have missed (may contain spoilers):
On Monday, we kicked things off with an interview with creator, executive producer and head writer Russell T Davies. “So much has been made of how the team is “still in mourning”. There’s a half second mention! That was in a press release nine months ago, and it carries over into every bit of reportage.” Russell’s interview carried over into Tuesday: “You watch this footage from Africa, from Bosnia, as if we’re more civilised than those people, as though we’re more intelligent than them and that could never happen here…. And it’s just a lie, a complete lie.”
Then the interviews moved on to the cast. On Wednesday, we spoke to Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto): “When they first said it was going down to five episodes, I was obviously a bit put out because I was expecting a little more work, basically… but I’m more proud of this series than anything else I’ve done before.”
On Thursday, it was the turn of Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper): “We lost two awesome characters, but more importantly we lost two great friends. But that’s the nature of the job, and the nature of Torchwood.”
And we finished off the week with Captain Jack himself, John Barrowman: “I’m not one of those actors who goes, ‘I can’t watch myself.’ That’s bullshit. Don’t agree with it. Why are you doing it if you can’t watch yourself?”
But of course we’ve had more than just the interviews, great though they are. On Monday, Mark looked at how the BBC website is complementing the news series. Tuesday saw the launch of our Torchwood novels competition, on Wednesday we threw the spotlight on the Radio 4 Afternoon Play series and yesterday Mark provided a Square Eyes special preview of Monday’s first episode.
That’s quite a haul. We hope you’ve enjoyed it and that it puts you in the mood for next week’s five-part serial (Monday to Friday, 9pm, BBC1). I daresay we’ll have some feedback from the TV episodes next week, but beyond that TV Today will of course continue covering the best of British drama and comedy on TV and radio. We hope you’ll stay with us.
