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Post by matsee on May 21, 2014 10:12:49 GMT
In Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale: The Final Chapter, in an email from Russell T Davies to Benjamin Cook in 2008 the former informed the latter that Noel Clarke would not be available to reprise his role as Mickey in Torchwood: Children of Earth as he had been cast in a Michael Winterbottom film but did not revealed the name of the film possibly because Davies didn’t know its name. Out of curiously I went to IMDb to find out the name of the movie that made Clarke to miss out on Children of Earth but the filmographies of Clarke and Winterbottom did not correlate any such film. I then found out the name of the movie from this site: uk.linkedin.com/pub/jermaine-curtis-liburd/17/610/898The name of the movie was called A Beautiful Game but it was never made due to lack of film funding. This means that Clarke had missed out on Children of Earth for a movie that never got made. It means in retrospect Clarke could have been in Children of Earth if he had known that A Beautiful Game was not going to be made!
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Post by matsee on May 25, 2014 1:20:27 GMT
Last week’s Sydney Sunday Telegraph had an interview with Frances Fisher about her role in Resurrection and the article’s writer Colin Vickery mentioned her previous roles including Torchwood.
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Post by matsee on May 28, 2014 22:00:42 GMT
Bay of the Dead: Bay of the Dead is an original novel released in June 2009. Written by Mark Morris, this takes place between the season 2 finale Exit Wounds & Children of Earth. What is presented here is a zombie story and of course there is an explanation in which they are not quite zombies. Quite thrilling the Torchwood team runs from and fights against the zombies in this quite good take on the zombie genre.
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Post by matsee on Jun 24, 2014 7:00:31 GMT
Red Skies: Red Skies is a post-Miracle Torchwood story released by AudioGo in May 2012. Written by Joseph Lidster and read by John Telfer. Telfer is an unusual choice of narrator as he is someone who was never in TV Torchwood but he delivers his narration of Red Skies superbly. In Red Skies, Jack takes a holiday on the planet Cotter Paluni’s World. In somewhat of a curious note I just looked up on TARDIS Wiki and this planet got a mention on television in Doctor Who: The Sontaran Stratagem by the Tenth Doctor as one of the places that he would like to take Donna to. While Cotter Paluni’s World has never been seen on television I somehow do not get the sense that the Doctor took Donna to that world in an off-screen adventure otherwise notwithstanding any timey-wimey situations he would have dealt with the situation that Jack encountered in Red Skies. In Cotter Paluni’s World, Jack to his very surprise encounters a populace that praises a god called….Torchwood. Quite intriguing listening to Jack finding out why the god is called Torchwood and the visions of the deaths of people he knew. The revelation of who this god Torchwood is was finely done in this quite incredible enjoyable story not to mention for a Torchwood story that has a non-Earth setting something the TV series did not get to do (so far).
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Post by matsee on Jun 26, 2014 5:13:40 GMT
Everything’s True: Everything’s True is a short story published in Torchwood Magazine #23. Written by Guy Adams and this quite an enjoyable story with the structure of it being a transcript of police interviews. The interviews concerns detailing the accounts of strange going-ons in a psychiatric hospital. Quite a surprise who Patient 14 turned out and how references to events in TV Torchwood got incorporated here. Guy Adams wrote very well within the transcript structure, a result that he delivered superbly.
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Post by matsee on Jul 22, 2014 11:45:06 GMT
Mr Invincible: Mr Invincible is a post-Miracle Torchwood story released by AudioGo in June 2012. Written by Mark Morris and read by Tom Price (Sgt Andy). After having a vision that Gwen was going to be killed in the previous audio story Red Skies, Captain Jack returns to 21st century Earth to save her. Just as Jack returned to Cardiff he and Andy soon encountered the case of Mr Invincible, a man Ross Chapman titled as such because he suddenly got superpowers and becomes a superhero by that name. However Mr Invincible is not the only oddity that has been going on in Cardiff lately as strange phenomena have been happening to people of Cardiff across the board. Pretty enjoyable mystery including the revelation of how all this came about and Morris wrote very well the Chapman character in how arrogant he has become by him becoming Mr Invincible. Mr Invincible turned out to be the final original Torchwood audio story as AudioGo was struggling commercially, went into administration over a year after Mr Invincible’s release and its operations subsequently taken over by Random House. With still no certainly about Torchwood’s future and apart from the release of the novel Exodus Code, three months after the release of Mr Invincible, Mr Invincible feels from my standpoint like a very fine swansong for Torchwood, at least for the time being.
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Post by matsee on Feb 17, 2015 9:51:29 GMT
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Post by matsee on Apr 19, 2015 3:34:49 GMT
Obviously as a little riff on PTSD, John and Carole E Barrowman in their Torchwood book Exodus Code wrote that Gwen was suffering from PTD – Post-Torchwood Depression!
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Post by matsee on May 5, 2015 7:31:12 GMT
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Post by matsee on Jul 27, 2015 9:33:24 GMT
In issue #23 of Torchwood Magazine dated November/December 2013, there is a feature by David G Parker on the Torchwood novels.
When looking at Slow Decay by Andy Lane and released in January 2007, Parker failed to note the similarity it has with Doctor Who TV episode Partners In Crime shown in April 2008 as both featured a weight loss programme that was quite too good to be true.
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Post by matsee on Sept 1, 2015 2:28:33 GMT
On August 23 2015, Holly Byrnes in the Sydney Sunday Telegraph in her article about the upcoming Australian mini-series Secret City and here she mentioned Torchwood as it is one of three credits that got mentioned for Secret City cast member Mekhi Phifer (the others being E.R. & Divergent). In Secret City Phifer plays US Ambassador Moreton.
Secret City also features one-time Torchwood guest star Alan Dale (Reset) as Prime Minister Martin Toohey.
Secret City stars Anna Torv, the former lead actor of Fringe, a series that is not unlike Torchwood.
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Post by matsee on Dec 14, 2015 5:31:26 GMT
Been reading Torchwood: Exodus Code by John and Carole E. Barrowman and was surprised that it had Captain Jack mentioning Sarah Jane Smith. It was surprising because TV Torchwood has never had any references to "classic" Who companions let alone Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane of course had turned up in NuWho but the mention of her was not because of her appearances in NuWho but how one of her stories with the Fourth Doctor, The Masque of Mandragora related to events in Exodus Code. Somehow incorporating the events of The Masque of Mandragora into Exodus Code is not at all coincidental to the fact that The Sarah Jane Adventures story Secrets of the Stars was originally going to be a sequel to the said Doctor Who story but this decision was ultimately reversed.
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Post by matsee on Jan 26, 2016 9:53:23 GMT
Border Princes: Border Princes is an original novel released in January 2007. Written by Dan Abnett and is the second in the series of Torchwood novels and takes place sometime in the first season. What is intriguing about Border Princes is that of Torchwood team member James Mayer someone who has not been in any other Torchwood adventures. Intriguing what is ultimately revealed about James especially the effect he had on Gwen. In fact James seems pretty much akin to Adam in the season 2 episode that bore his name. Along with James, Border Princes had been served well by the villains of this story including the Amok.
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Post by matsee on Mar 21, 2016 1:53:40 GMT
Consequences - The Baby Farmers: First story in the Consequences anthology book. Written by David Llewellyn.
Along with Captain Jack, this story featured Emily Holroyd and Alice Guppy who had appeared in the TV Torchwood.
Enthralling story of what the story title and horrifying at the same time.
The Consequences anthology book was published in 2009 and I was surprised that The Baby Farmers included a Victorian barmaid by the name of Clara who was at the age of 26. Remarkably just three years later in 2012 TV Doctor Who featured its own Victorian barmaid by the name of Clara in The Snowmen also at age 26. However unlike the TV Clara, the Clara in The Baby Farmers is a blonde woman. Also The Baby Farmers took place in 1899 just seven years before The Snowmen in 1892.
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Post by matsee on Apr 18, 2016 2:00:33 GMT
Consequences
Kaleidoscope: Second story. Written by Sarah Pinborough. This takes place after Jack's disappearance from the team at the end of season 1 when he went off on the TARDIS with the Doctor and Martha.
Interesting how the acting leader of Torchwood was chosen in Jack's absence.
Dark story involving a young boy and a device affecting behaviour.
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