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Originally posted: August 27, 2008
'Torchwood' terror: Only 5 episodes for Season 3 serialized format!
Posted at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27
Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd), Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles) and Capt. Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) will be back in 2009 for Season 3 of "Torchwood."
Only five episodes?
That’s all fans will be getting for the third season of “Torchwood,” BBC America’s highest rated series, when it returns in 2009.
Just five episodes! That’s hardly enough of Capt. Jack Harkness and his Torchwood team fighting aliens on Earth. The new season, titled “Torchwood: Children of Earth,” has begun filming in Cardiff, Wales, a BBC America release says.
Creator Russell T Davis will have the Torchwood team embarking on one adventure in the new season, battling “for the future of the human race against the fiercest force they have encountered.”
Little spoiler alert here: If you haven’t seen Season 2, stop reading.
Season 2 ended with the deaths of team members Toshiko Sato (Naoko Mori) and Owen Harper (Burn Gorman). The remaining members of the team, Capt. Jack (John Barrowman), Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles) and Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd) will get some help from Gwen’s hubby, Rhys Williams (Kai Owen) and her former police partner Andy (Tom Price).
You can start reading again.
The press release gave a few clues as to what is in store for Season 3 when listing the guest star cast:
"The new series of Torchwood is hugely bold and promises to be bigger and better than ever—the audience is in for an amazing ride,” Davies says in the release. “This series is one big serial and the most ambitious story we've ever made, and we've got plenty of surprises in store."
It better be good, because it’s far too short.
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Yes, five episodes is Staggeringly FAR too short, but we'll take anything we can get...and then wait in agony until series 4 gives us thirteen eps again in 2010, (I'm hopeful...and not above begging!) ;-)
Curt's reply: From your keyboard to Davies' eyes, Nina. Thanks for writing.
Posted by: Nina | Aug 27, 2008 10:53:05 AMI think that the Torchwood production team fear that next series of Doctor Who is the last and hopes to get an extra season of Torchwood in before, since they seem reluctant to air Torchwood without Doctor Who to follow it. Maybe that explains this mini-series: so that it is easier to piggyback a fourth series right after the next series of Doctor Who...
I hope I am terribly wrong. But lately the BBC has kept us waiting, like the Radio4 Torchwood Afternoon Play that was supposed to run in July, and is now due on the 10th of September.
Curt's reply: You think YOU have to wait? We're sitting over here in the U.S. waiting looonger! Thanks for writing Anne.
5 episodes is very, very short - will each episode have a longer running time?
I was lucky enough to win a recent BBC competition of a tour around the Torchwood/Doctor Who/Sarah Jane sets and we were given a top secret preview of a large set which is going to be used for the upcoming series of Torchwood. I can't say anything about it as I was made to sign a confidentiality agreement but if what I saw is anything to go by then series 3 is going to be a cracking one, albeit a bit short :-(
Curt's reply: Aww, I've been pushing for a set visit forEVER. You have to fill me in! Yes, I read 5 eps and done, and could get no further word on it than that. Hopefully each will be movie length, or they will change their minds. I look forward to it and thanks for the tease, Jamie. Thanks for reading as well. Cheers.
Posted by: Jamie | Dec 15, 2008 5:59:06 PM