Up until now, throughout its first two years, Torchwood has met with a generaly positive response from the viewers, gaining enough momentum to make the move from BBC3 to BBC2 after a successfull first series and shortly to make another upgrade to BBC1. It seems to be especially successfull in the international markets like America and Australia who even seem to be a lot more upbeat about it than they are about the better known parent show. However, a vocal few from the fan communities

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Tags: BBC, Captain-Jack, Children of Earth, Cyberwoman, Eve-Myles, Jon Barrowman, Rob Lowe, Torchwood

Doctor Who Retrospective #3 of 10 “The Unquiet Dead”

The anticpation for The Unquiet Dead was pretty high and one of the reasons for this was the fact that this episode was written by the League Of Gentlemen’s Mark Gatiss, who has since kept his association with the show by penning The Idiot’s Lantern, narrating Doctor Who Confidential’s second season and playing Doctor Lazarus in the soon to be seen third season. TUD is also noteworthy for its star, Eve Myles, who went on to play PC Gwen Cooper in the spinoff series,

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Tags: Charles-Dickens, Doctor Who, Eve-Myles, Mark-Gatiss, Mary-Whitehouse, Mediawatch, Simon-Callow, TARDIS, The-Mill, The-Rift, The-Unquiet-Dead, Torchwood