"Dead"" (2005), but while developing the ""Torchwood"" spin-off series over the summer of 2005, he relocated the Torchwood seen in ""Army of Ghosts"" and ""Doomsday"" to London, while maintaining the existence of a Cardiff branch for the ""Torchwood"" series he was preparing. The Institute was founded by Queen Victoria in 1879, following the events of the ""Doctor Who"" episode ""Tooth and Claw"". While staying at Torchwood House, the Scottish estate of Sir Robert MacLeish, the Queen (Pauline Collins) was attacked by a werewolf, in reality an alien intelligence that planned to infect her with its consciousness by biting her. The"
"Due to its popularity, a second series was announced at the end of the first series, with location filming finishing in October 2014. Shortly after the second series aired, it was announced that ""Broadchurch"" would return for a third series. Chibnall is a long-time fan of ""Doctor Who"", and appeared on the BBC discussion programme ""Open Air"" in 1986 as a representative of the ""Doctor Who"" Appreciation Society, criticising the quality of the series at the time. In 2005, Chibnall was appointed head writer and co-producer of science-fiction drama ""Torchwood"". The series, a spin-off from ""Doctor Who"", premiered on BBC"
"and Naoko Mori who reprised her role as Toshiko Sato first seen in ""Aliens of London"". A second series of ""Torchwood"" aired in 2008; for three episodes, the cast was joined by Freema Agyeman reprising her ""Doctor Who"" role of Martha Jones. A third series was broadcast from 6 to 10 July 2009, and consisted of a single five-part story called ""Children of Earth"" which was set largely in London. A fourth series, """" jointly produced by BBC Wales, BBC Worldwide and the American entertainment company Starz debuted in 2011. The series was predominantly set in the United States, though"
"scale of the story takes the protagonists to Shanghai and Buenos Aires in the finale ""The Blood Line"". In the epilogue, Gwen questions Jack whether he will stay to reform Torchwood; he does not provide an answer. The first two series of ""Torchwood"" were both filmed and set in Cardiff. The makers of ""Torchwood"" deliberately portray Cardiff as a modern urban centre, contrasting with past stereotypical portrayals of Wales. ""There's not a male voice choir ... or a miner in sight."" said BBC Wales Controller Menna Richards. Conservative MP Michael Gove described the debut of ""Torchwood"" as the moment confirming"
"as a lesbian who was struggling and denying her sexuality, while Brittany is bisexual. ""Torchwood"" (2006), created by Russell T Davies, is a spin-off of long-running British science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"". The show is based in Cardiff, Wales, and deals with several LGBT themes, specifically bisexuality. Each of the main characters in ""Torchwood"" has same-sex encounters at some point in the first season, with ""The Sun"" describing all of the characters on Torchwood as bisexual. Davies has said that he hopes to defy audience expectations of monosexual characters: The lead male in the series, Captain Jack Harkness originated"
"early Saturday evening timeslot. Davies was also approached by the BBC to produce several spin-off series, eventually creating two: ""Torchwood"" and ""The Sarah Jane Adventures"". In October 2005, BBC Three Controller Stuart Murphy invited Davies to create a post-watershed ""Doctor Who"" spin-off in the wake of the parent series' popularity. ""Torchwood""—named after an anagrammatic title ruse used to prevent leaks of ""Doctor Who's"" first series—incorporated elements from an abandoned Davies project titled ""Excalibur"" and featured the pansexual 51st century time-traveler Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) and a team of alien hunters in Cardiff. The show began production in April 2006 and"
"on the architectural map"", housing exhibitions and visitor information. Cardiff Bay was used as the high-tech urban setting for the ""Doctor Who"" episode ""Boom Town"" and the show's spinoff, ""Torchwood"", whose makers deliberately avoided stereotypical portrayals of Wales in order to portray Cardiff as the modern urban centre it is today. In ""Torchwood"" series, there is a giant secret base underneath the bay, named ""The Hub"", from where the Torchwood team works. There is also a lift from the hub into the plaza with a perception filter making anyone who stands on the spot ""not noticed"". In the third series"
"Torchwood Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies, a spin-off from the 2005 revival of ""Doctor Who"" which aired four series between 2006 and 2011. The show shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from BBC Three to BBC Two to BBC One, and acquiring US financing in its fourth series when it became a co-production of BBC One and Starz. ""Torchwood"" is aimed at older teenagers and adults, in contrast to ""Doctor Who""'s target audience of both adults and children. The show explored a number of themes, including"
"the show adapted to a conventional London setting, with many scenes filmed and set at real-life British intelligence agency headquarters Thames House. For the show's fourth series, the programme was largely filmed and set in the United States, but parts were filmed in Wales and other locations. Torchwood explores various themes in its narrative, including issues around existentialism, the nature of human life and the absence of a traditional afterlife, and the corrupting nature of power. The program is also notable in its portrayal of LGBT characters and the degree to which its various characters are sexually fluid; through those"
"major role. The two-part finale comprising ""Army of Ghosts"" and ""Doomsday"" was originally going to take place in Cardiff on the time rift which was the focus of the episodes ""The Unquiet Dead"" and ""Boom Town"". With the commission of the ""Torchwood"" series in 2005, Davies decided to base the spin-off in Cardiff and relocate ""Army of Ghosts"" and ""Doomsday"" to Canary Wharf in London. To ensure that Noel Clarke and Shaun Dingwall (Mickey Smith and Pete Tyler, respectively) were available for filming, the story was filmed in the season's third production block along with ""Rise of the Cybermen"" and"
"""Torchwood"" was commissioned in 2005, Davies decided to base the spin-off in Cardiff and relocate ""Army of Ghosts"" and ""Doomsday"" to Canary Wharf in London. An item of discussion between the production staff was over who would rescue Rose; Davies and Julie Gardner wanted Pete to rescue her, while Clarke and Phil Collinson wanted Mickey. The role was ultimately given to Pete, to emphasise that he had accepted Rose as a surrogate daughter. The Doctor's intended reply to Rose was also discussed; Davies, who left the reply unspecified, stated he didn't know when asked by Collinson on the episode's commentary"
"England's capital city of London, its membership declining and the organisation thoroughly broken over the course of the serial. Series four starts with Torchwood fully disbanded. Jack has left Earth after the events of series three, and Gwen has retired to be with her family. The group is then unofficially reformed, this time operating primarily in the United States, joined by two fugitive CIA agents who have been framed for treason. Unlike its parent programme, ""Torchwood"" centres on a team instead of a single character with companions. The show initially depicts a small team of alien-hunters known as Torchwood Three,"
"of the famous Old Earth Torchwood Institute, ""Torchwood"" being an anagram of ""Doctor Who"". In 2006, a spin-off series titled ""Torchwood"" began, set in modern-day Cardiff and involving a team investigating paranormal and alien incidents, and featuring John Barrowman reprising his role of Captain Jack Harkness. Nisha Nayar, the actress cast as the Female Programmer in this episode, previously appeared as one of the uncredited 'Red Kang' extras in the 1987 classic series story ""Paradise Towers"". This made her the second actor to appear in both the classic and new series of ""Doctor Who"", following William Thomas's appearance in the"
"Torchwood Institute The Torchwood Institute, or simply Torchwood, is a fictional secret organisation from the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"" and its spin-off series ""Torchwood"". It was established in 1879 by Queen Victoria after the events of ""Tooth and Claw"". Its prime directive is to defend Earth against supernatural and extraterrestrial threats. It is later revealed in ""Army of Ghosts"" that the Torchwood Institute has begun to use their findings to restore the British Empire to its former glory. To those ends, the organisation started to acquire and reverse engineer alien technology. Within Torchwood an unofficial slogan evolved:"
"""Torchwood"". Filming began at the National Museum Cardiff, which doubled for the history museum depicted in the episode's first scene. To portray the tunnel the bus travelled into, the Queen's Gate Tunnel of the A4232 road in Butetown was closed for four nights to accommodate filming. The last major piece of filming in Wales took place in the closed Mir (formerly Alphasteel) steelworks in Newport, which doubled almost unaltered for the Tritovore spaceship. Scenes set in London's Oxford Street were filmed at St Mary Street, Cardiff. Filming took place at the peak of the February 2009 Great Britain snowfall, where"
"the ""Doctor Who"" episode ""Boom Town"" (which was set in Cardiff), Jack placed a lockdown on Torchwood activity so as not to create a paradox involving his past self. ""Trace Memory"" similarly depicts Jack as a freelance Torchwood agent, living and working in the late 1960s. ""Pack Animals"", ""SkyPoint"", and ""Almost Perfect"" (October 2008), are made up of more second series adventures, apart from ""Almost Perfect"" which is set after Series Two finale ""Exit Wounds"". ""Into the Silence"", ""Bay of the Dead"", and ""The House that Jack Built"" (May 2009), similarly are set between the second and third series of"
"lasting at least from March to May 2011, it seems quite incompatible with the world of ""Doctor Who"", where in Steven Moffat's 2011 series, companions Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) are based in this exact time period without any mention of the problem, or evidence of global catastrophe elsewhere. Anders comments that in the past, the two shows had always ""maintained a fairly tight continuity"". Torchwood: Miracle Day Torchwood: Miracle Day is the fourth, and final televised series of the British science fiction television programme ""Torchwood"", a spin-off from the long-running show ""Doctor Who"". In contrast to the"
"the name of the spin-off series ""Torchwood"". Davies was interested in making an episode that would serve as a crossover with """", and involve the TARDIS landing on-board the NX-01. The idea was officially discussed, but the plans were abandoned following the cancellation of ""Enterprise"" in February 2005. The first series of ""Doctor Who"" featured eight scripts by Davies, the remainder being allocated to experienced drama writers and previous writers for the show's ancillary releases: Steven Moffat penned a two-episode story, while Mark Gatiss, Robert Shearman, and Paul Cornell each wrote one script. Davies also approached his friend Paul Abbott"
"is based somewhat on Adams's own college, St John's. For ""Shada"", scenes at St. Cedd's were filmed on location at Emmanuel College. In a 2012 episode of the TV adaptation ""Dirk Gently"", Wills Hall at the University of Bristol was used as St. Cedd's College instead. St. Cedd's College is also mentioned in the Torchwood online game, made during the show's second series. It is said to be the college attended by Dr. John Winters, a fictional character within the game. St. Cedd's College, Cambridge St. Cedd's College is a fictional college, created by Douglas Adams, of Cambridge University. It"
"is situated within London's Canary Wharf and accidentally allows the invasion of the Cybermen and, subsequently, the Daleks. The Doctor and Rose are forcibly separated by these events, which lead to Rose's entrapment within a parallel universe. The Doctor and Rose are indirectly responsible for their separation; their enjoyment of the events of ""Tooth and Claw"" horrifies Queen Victoria and leads to the establishment of Torchwood. Over a century later, the institute's foolish actions are resolved at the expense of the Doctor and Rose's companionship. ""It's deliberate when that happens [The Doctor and Rose's arrogance]"", said head writer Russell T"
"In 2010, Barrowman returned to ""Doctor Who"" with a cameo in ""The End of Time"" along with other previous stars. Series 3 of ""Torchwood"" was broadcast in July 2009 as a miniseries of five episodes called ""Children of Earth"". Filming of Series 4 called """" began on 11 January 2011 primarily in Los Angeles, and in and around Cardiff, Wales. The first episode of ""Miracle Day"" aired on Starz Network in the United States on 8 July 2011 and was broadcast on BBC One in the UK on 14 July 2011. Both ""Doctor Who"" and ""Torchwood"" became popular in the"
"long-running British science fiction drama ""Doctor Who"", ran for four series before entering an indefinite hiatus due to executive producer and creator Russell T Davies's other commitments. In January 2015, John Barrowman, who plays series lead Captain Jack Harkness, stated that there were plans for ""Torchwood"" to return as several BBC audio plays that could potentially lead into a fifth television series, with both Davies and co-executive producer Julie Gardner in discussion of the project. ""Torchwood"" previously aired on BBC Radio 4 between 2008 and 2011 in the form of radio plays. In May 2015, Big Finish announced plans to"
"was used as the ""magic lift"" in the series. In January 2008, such was the popularity of ""Torchwood"" that being near the ""Torchwood Tower"" was used in advertising for local property. A January 2009 article comments on the attraction the Torchwood 'Hub' has brought to the Wales Millennium Centre, as Minister for Heritage Alun Ffred Jones announced that resultingly, ""the Wales Millennium Centre building itself is now established as a symbol of modern Welsh culture"". Torchwood Institute The Torchwood Institute, or simply Torchwood, is a fictional secret organisation from the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"" and its spin-off"
"the city. The Rift Manipulator has been moved to the new building and has been plugged into a permanently comatose Jack Harkness, whose immortality allows the Rift to be held open safely, thus allowing two-way travel. The radio drama ""Asylum"" also suggests that Torchwood might gain control over the Rift in the near future, using it to send a half-alien girl back to the present day. Torchwood was also mentioned in the Doctor Who episode ""Bad Wolf"" when Rose is forced to play on a game show and one of the questions is about the remains of a Torchwood location."
"the largest ever built at Upper Boat Studios. However, many of the scenes set in the corridors of the same building (supposedly Thames House in London) were shot in the corridors of the Guildhall, Swansea. John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Gareth David Lloyd, Kai Owen and Tom Price all reprise their respective ""Torchwood"" roles for the serial. David-Lloyd had first concluded that Ianto was being killed off when his agent told him he was only needed for four out of five episodes. Peter Capaldi and Nick Briggs had both previously been involved in ""Doctor Who"" productions prior to ""Children of Earth""."
"miracle, but the absence of deaths begins to strain medical resources and spread diseases around the globe; the world's governments estimate that unless something is done, the world will be unable to sustain the population growth within four months. Central Intelligence Agency agents Rex Matheson (who had suffered a fatal accident but remains alive) and Esther Drummond discover the name ""Torchwood"" tied with these events, and locate its remaining members, Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper. In bringing them back to the United States, they find themselves pursued by agents working for an entity called the Families. Jack discovers that his"
"based in Cardiff. The team is made up of five operatives led by Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), formerly a time-travelling ""Time Agent"" and con man from the distant future who has lived on Earth as an immortal since the 19th century. Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles), the female lead, joins the team in the first episode; she is originally an audience surrogate, but later grows into a more morally complicated character. The original cast is filled out by Torchwood medical officer Owen Harper (Burn Gorman), computer specialist Toshiko Sato (Naoko Mori), and general ""factotum""-cum-administrator Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd). Toshiko and"
"creative writing and journalism at the University of Glamorgan, was born in Treforest. World of Groggs is on the Broadway in Treforest. Television series ""Doctor Who"", ""Torchwood"", and ""Sarah Jane Adventures"" were filmed at Upper Boat Studios on Treforest Industrial Estate, before moving to Roath Lock studios in Cardiff Bay in 2011. A number of places of worship exist in Treforest. The University of South Wales offers a chaplaincy service. The chaplaincy also occasionally provides services in conjunction with Castle Square United Reformed Church. Other Christian churches in the village include St Dyfrig's Roman Catholic Church off Broadway, and Calvary"
"Jack Harkness Captain Jack Harkness is a fictional character played by John Barrowman in ""Doctor Who"" and its spin-off series, ""Torchwood"". The character first appears in the 2005 ""Doctor Who"" episode ""The Empty Child"" and subsequently features in the remaining episodes of the 2005 series as a companion to the series' protagonist, the Doctor. Subsequent to this, Jack became the central character in the adult-themed ""Torchwood"", which aired from 2006 to 2011. Barrowman also reprised the role for guest appearances in ""Doctor Who"" in its 2007 series and 2008 series, as well as the two-part special ""The End of Time""."
"Torchwood: Miracle Day Torchwood: Miracle Day is the fourth, and final televised series of the British science fiction television programme ""Torchwood"", a spin-off from the long-running show ""Doctor Who"". In contrast to the first three series, which were produced by the BBC, the fourth series was a British–American co-production involving the BBC's drama production house BBC Cymru Wales for BBC Worldwide and the U.S. premium network Starz. It was broadcast in ten episodes beginning on 8 July 2011 (U.S.) and 14 July 2011 (UK). The central plot of ""Miracle Day"" is that suddenly no one on Earth can die, which"
"the two-part story ""The Empty Child""/""The Doctor Dances"". He went on to appear in the next three episodes, ""Boom Town"", ""Bad Wolf"" and ""The Parting of the Ways"". Jack became so popular, he was given his own show – ""Torchwood"", a ""Doctor Who"" spin-off series featuring a team of alien hunters based in modern-day Cardiff, which premiered in 2006. American film and television critic Ken Tucker describes Barrowman's role on ""Torchwood"" as ""dashing"", ""utterly fabulous"", ""celestially promiscuous"", and ""like Tom Cruise with suspenders, but minus the Scientology"". In the show, Jack ""tracks down—and occasionally beds—ETs with the help of his"
"Harkness and Cooper essentially re-establish the Institute with some Central Intelligence Agency agents in """" (2011), although new member Rex Matheson notes at one point that 'Torchwood' is essentially just a name given their current renegade status. In the ""Doctor Who"" episode ""Fear Her"", set in 2012, Torchwood is public enough to be mentioned in a television broadcast during the London 2012 Olympics. In this future, Torchwood is no longer a private organisation and has branches all across the Torchwood Empire. At the center of the organisation's new image is the Cardiff branch, a new building in the center of"
"play opened at San Francisco's Magic Theater in September 2007. He also appeared in the Broadway production of David Mamet's ""Oleanna"", co-starring Julia Stiles. The production opened at the John Golden Theatre October 11, 2009, and closed on December 6, 2009, playing 65 performances. He is also a Jury Member for the digital studio Filmaka, a platform for undiscovered filmmakers to show their work to industry professionals. Pullman played Oswald Danes, a pedophile and child killer, in """", the fourth series of the BBC/Starz Entertainment television show ""Torchwood"" (a spinoff to the BBC series ""Doctor Who""), the former of which"