woo!

[telophase]

Good news for the Captain Jack fans - the BBC is doing a spinoff series with Captain Jack from Doctor Who.

The BBC has commissioned the Doctor Who scriptwriter Russell T Davies to make an adult post-watershed spin-off of its most famous sci-fi show.

The new programme will be called Torchwood (an anagram of Doctor Who) and will follow a crack team investigating alien activities and crime in modern-day Britain.

It will feature in its starring role John Barrowman, who played Captain Jack Harkness in Doctor Who and who will play the same character in Torchwood.

Like the latest version of Doctor Who, which the BBC successfully relaunched this year, Torchwood will be based in Cardiff. Davies, who has just begun writing Torchwood, said the new programme would be aimed at adult audiences and would "have its own, unique identity". He said: "Torchwood will be a dark, clever, wild, sexy, British crime/sci-fi paranoid thriller cop show with a sense of humour - the X Files meets This Life," the latter a reference to the groundbreaking Nineties BBC drama about a group of young lawyers in Bristol.

*busts out icon in celebration*

Comments

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

I saw that yesterday. I did not personally squee, but there was much squeeing involved.

Really, anything that involves more of either Captain Jack or John Barrowman is a positive in my book.

[scribblemoose]

That's so promising I'm sitting here with a grin on my face. :)

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Whooo! I want to find a way to see that. I must ask the kind people who made it possible for me to see Dr. Who.

I started out NOT liking Captain Jack - but then I have a big distrust of a charming con man, having been really screwed up by one. But he grew on me really fast.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Same here. I started off thinking "Oh this is the guy the producers say I'm supposed to like," which is usually a sure sign that I can't stand said character, but after a couple of episodes he grew on me. :D

[selenite.livejournal.com]

So just when did slashers become part of the SF target demographic? ;-)

PS Nice icon.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

They've been part of the target for a bit. ISTR reading something-or-other about throwaway lines and such that have been written into various shows for fanservice, but I of course can't remember exactly what or when. (I think I've run across something about that for Smallville, which I don't watch, but it sounds familiar enough that I think I've read it earlier.)

Thank you! XD Hee.