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Can Torchwood Travel?

Posted on Wednesday January 20, 2010, 08:52 by James White

America, eh? They just can't stop stealing our telly ideas. Those colonials! Why can't they come up with some programmes of their own? Except, of course for The West Wing. And Battlestar Galactica. And Star Trek. And Mad Men. And… All right, so they've got a few.

But for some reason, there's an endless fascination with buying up UK properties, slapping on a few new names and tweaks like a house-flipper after a profit and shoving them out to a largely unsuspecting American TV audience. The misses, thus far, have outweighed the hits.

My focus, however, is not on the scorecard for US translations of UK shows. It's on one particular series: Torchwood. Yes, the Doctor Who spin-off. Which launched with the promise of being an X-Files for Cardiff, a locally-based, but universally-plotted peek into the world of a crack team battling alien problems conveniently centered in Wales.

Of course, what we actually got in that first season was a seriously off-kilter mishmash of oc...

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New Jack City - A First Look At 24 Season 8

Posted on Friday January 15, 2010, 17:38 by Nick de Semlyen

May 20, 2015. That is the date on which the events of 24: Season 8 occur, the real-time thriller serial’s timeline having gradually skipped ahead of the real world’s. So with the action moving to New York* and CTU getting resurrected in a glitzy new HQ, are we in for thrills of a more sci-fi nature than usual? Well, yes and no…

Empire was among a select few invited to attend yesterday’s premiere of the Season 8 premiere, at the Skirball Center in New York’s Greenwich Village. In a private screening room (security grading: blue), we were handed a bottle of special 24 water with Jack Bauer’s face on the label (not only refreshing, but handy for bludgeoning terrorists with in close-combat situations) and seated next to the show’s creators and stars. A slideshow of the actors’ faces rotated by on the screen before the episode began, which prompted some of them (including Annie Wersching and Freddie Prinze Jr) to pose for grinning camera-phone photos of th...

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Pineapple Express Interviews

Posted on Tuesday August 26, 2008, 14:57 by Amar Vijay

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Video: Extended Spaced Interview

Posted on Wednesday August 13, 2008, 10:23 by Amar Vijay

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Video: Watchmen Interviews, Part 2

Posted on Monday August 11, 2008, 10:50 by James Dyer

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Video: Watchmen Interviews, Part 1

Posted on Friday August 8, 2008, 10:32 by James Dyer

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Video: Comic-Con Day 4

Posted on Monday July 28, 2008, 21:14 by James Dyer

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Photos: The Weird And The Wonderful #5

Posted on Monday July 28, 2008, 11:16 by James Dyer

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It's Game Over, Man

Posted on Monday July 28, 2008, 06:40 by James Dyer

And that’s it. After four gruelling days of running around like a lunatic, being bossed around by officious organisers and brushing shoulders with some of the geekiest people in the world, the 2008 Comic Con is now over. Today has been a fairly easy day by Con standards, I've had no interviews or panels to attend (today’s selection were too nerdarific even for me) so it was time to slow down, walk the floor and take a moment to really look around.

Part of that, of course, is sampling the wares available from the three thousand odd stalls scattered around the place. Handily, it’s possible to get hold of official ‘schwag bags’, which are unnecessarily capacious goodie sacks that you can sling over your shoulder and fill to the brim with geekabilia. The Watchmen one was (unsurprisingly) the most coveted as the Warner stand only gave out a handful every half hour or so and ruthlessly chased off campers trying to hang around for the next giveaway. Sci-Fi had the secon...

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Video: Comic-Con Day 3

Posted on Sunday July 27, 2008, 22:45 by James Dyer

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The Lost Videblogisode - In Video Form!

Posted on Sunday July 27, 2008, 18:52 by James Dyer

You'll be glad to know all the technical difficulties we had a few days ago have finally been fixed, so here for your viewing pleasure, the "missing" videblogisode. Featuring interviews with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Naomie Harris, Gerard Butler, Guy Ritchie and whole host of other Comic-Con stars.

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Photos: The Weird And The Wonderful #4

Posted on Sunday July 27, 2008, 16:41 by James Dyer

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McTerminator Steals The Show

Posted on Sunday July 27, 2008, 09:24 by James Dyer

Comic Con really is the great equaliser. In many ways you’re treated better as a fan than you are as a journalist, which is a right pain in the arse for me but I supose that's how it should be at an event like this. After all, Comic Con is an event for the fans who make these projects a success, not for sneering press who will quite possibly go away and slag everything off anyway. No, the lack of respect is something I’ve got over, what’s irritating me today is the other major Con annoyance: clashes. I don’t know what genius sets up the events here but so many must-see panels seem to clash with other things, forcing me to make some impossible decisions. It’s like a geek Sophie’s Choice! Today I missed out on Heroes and Lost (not that I’d have got in anyway as the queue stretched halfway to Albuquerque) then had to skip both Battlestar Galactica and the panel for Joss Whedon’s new show, Dollhouse. I’d have been pissed off for the rest of the day if the rea...

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Video: Videblogisode Man Returns!

Posted on Saturday July 26, 2008, 23:31 by James Dyer

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Photos: The Weird And The Wonderful #3

Posted on Saturday July 26, 2008, 15:38 by James Dyer

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Who Watches The Watchmen? Er... Everyone

Posted on Saturday July 26, 2008, 04:48 by James Dyer

There’s one common purpose shared by all visitors to the Comic Con - a quest that overrides all other concerns. The activity I’m referring to is the pursuit of ‘schwag’. Schwag, if you’re unaware, is a catch-all term covering all the free crap it’s possible to accumulate while trawling the halls here. Yes, you can walk away from the Con laden with goodies, even if you don’t so much as dip a hand in your pocket and I’ve set out to definitively prove this today. So far, I’ve had a number of free novels pressed into my eager hands - most of which promised to be the next Twilight but proved to be barely disguised erotica involving the odd horny vampire. Walking form the hotel, I received a number of badges, a Japanese comic, a bright yellow t-shirt for something I’ve never heard of and a strange green liquid in a bottle that may or may not be designed for drinking.

To get your hands on the A-grade schwag ,though, you need to be a litt...

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Video: Twilight Panel

Posted on Friday July 25, 2008, 17:39 by James Dyer

This is supposed to be a Q&A panel for the adaptation of the wildly successful vampire novel Twilight, but we figure from the screaming that somebody must have set the hall on fire and locked the doors. It was really very professional of the cast to carry on in the face of such danger.

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Video: Max Payne Panel

Posted on Friday July 25, 2008, 16:57 by James Dyer

Watch Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis and director John Moore discuss making the video game adaptation Max Payne. This video is rated PG for excessive whooping.

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Video: The Day The Earth Stood Still Panel

Posted on Friday July 25, 2008, 16:14 by James Dyer

Scott Derrickson, Jennifer Connelly, Keanu Reeves and Keanu Reeves' beard talk about their remake of the 1951 movie about an alien who comes to Earth in peace and finds humans to be less than welcoming.

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Photos: The Weird And The Wonderful #2

Posted on Friday July 25, 2008, 10:45 by James Dyer

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Earlier Posts  


Can Torchwood Travel?
By James White

New Jack City - A First Look At 24 Season 8
By Nick de Semlyen

Pineapple Express Interviews
By Amar Vijay

Video: Extended Spaced Interview
By Amar Vijay

Video: Watchmen Interviews, Part 2
By James Dyer


New Jack City - A First Look At 24 Season 8
"That polar bear was a reference to Lost - I am sure!"
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Can Torchwood Travel?
"The only thing that gives me any hope at all, and it's still not much hope, that this won't turn out"
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New Jack City - A First Look At 24 Season 8
"I think that even the most ardent 24 fan (i.e. me) would have to admit that the first two were quite"
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Can Torchwood Travel?
"I'm a big fan of Torchwood, but this really oesn't sit right with me. The Doctor Who episode "T"
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Can Torchwood Travel?
"How does this make any sense? How can this possible work? It makes no sense in continuity and Russel"
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