{"id":526,"date":"2013-03-11T00:21:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T04:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/blog\/?page_id=526"},"modified":"2020-12-07T05:35:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T10:35:26","slug":"whos-next-torchwood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/?page_id=526","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Next (Torchwood)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Who<\/em>\u2019s Next: the BBC\u2019s Sexy New Sci-Fi Series (for videobusiness.com)<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/?attachment_id=1910\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1910\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Torchwood-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Torchwood-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Torchwood.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/a>\u201cWe\u2019re very cheeky about the sex and romance that we show on <em>Torchwood<\/em>,\u201d says the show\u2019s executive producer, Julie Gardner, who is also Head of Drama Commissioning at BBC Wales. The first season of <em>Torchwood<\/em> will be released on DVD in the first quarter of 2008 on BBC video; the show debuts on BBC-America on September 8th.<\/p>\n<p>The series follows the exploits of the Torchwood Institute, an organization that copes with aliens, devices and anomalies that come through a rift in space and time located in Cardiff, Wales. \u201cTorchwood first appeared in the first season of <em>Dr. Who<\/em> in the werewolf episode (no. 11),\u201d explains Gardner. \u201cThat Torchwood was an arrogant group; on the series, it\u2019s very different \u2014 a renegade, smaller, more reflective organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gardner stresses that <em>Torchwood<\/em> \u201cworks as standalone viewing for those unfamiliar with the Dr. Who universe, while <em>Dr. Who<\/em> fans will see some crossovers.\u201d The show is unique for several reasons, chief among them its setting. \u201cCardiff is going through a renaissance at the moment, and it makes a good \u2018modern city\u2019 backdrop for the series.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A factor that sets the show apart from its American counterparts is its blatant sex appeal. The second episode of the first season finds the Institute trying to capture a young woman possessed by an alien that lives off the energy from male orgasms. \u201cWe deal with adult, romantic, emotional issues on the show \u2014 it\u2019s never just sex for sex\u2019s sake,\u201d says Gardner. That said, she is proud that the Institute\u2019s leader, Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), an American pilot with a mysterious past, \u201cis possibly the first openly bisexual character on a sci-fi series.\u201d [Harkness undergoes an attraction to the show\u2019s \u201ctouchstone character,\u201d Welsh policewoman Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles), but also is revealed later in the first season to have had a previous affair with a man.] Gardner ascribes the show\u2019s open sexuality to the characters\u2019 mission: \u201cwhen you\u2019re facing life and death situations, everyone\u2019s going to fancy everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gardner won\u2019t offer detailed spoilers for the coming seasons of <em>Dr. Who<\/em> and <em>Torchwood<\/em>, but notes that figures from the past bedevil both the good Doctor and Captain Jack in episodes that have yet to appear in the U.S. The third season of <em>Dr. Who<\/em> in fact concludes with \u201cthe introduction of a new companion for the Doctor, and a face-off with his greatest enemy from the past!\u201d She also reveals that U.K. viewers don\u2019t have to wait to see the DVD extras for either series: <em>Doctor Who Confidential<\/em> and <em>Torchwood Declassified<\/em> are regular making-of shows that air immediately after both series on BBC3. \u2013<i>Ed Grant<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who\u2019s Next: the BBC\u2019s Sexy New Sci-Fi Series (for videobusiness.com) \u201cWe\u2019re very cheeky about the sex and romance that we show on Torchwood,\u201d says the show\u2019s executive producer, Julie Gardner, who is also Head of Drama Commissioning at BBC Wales. 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