fajrdrako | In Torchwood news... (Reply)

A couple of encouraging items:

Now, this is obviously self-promotion, but the Director-General of the BBC is happy with Torchwood, which he calls sexy and modern, and he seems to believe there will be more than one season. The article: Director General praises 'sexy' BBC Wales.

And SyFy Portal has another interview with John Barrowman. Does that man ever have moments when he is not cheery and enthusiastic, friendly and funny? Well, if he's 90% Captain Jack (or vice versa), he must have a dark side, right? Though you'd never know it to see him in his Jack in the Beanstalk costume. Just how many characters named Jack has he played, anyway? Jack in Doctor Who and Torchwood, Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack in De-Lovely.. I wonder what the name of his character was in Bent, or his other stage plays. I see from IMDb he played someone named Peter in both Titans and Central Park West.

He says in the interview we will learn "more back story" for Captain Jack - like how he went from the game station to 2007 Cardiff? Or what happened in his two missing years? We've already learned a lot of interesting bits and pieces, but not much on how they fit together.

Good quote:

One of the many reasons Jack has become such a notable figure in British television is due to his omnisexuality, and because of this, Barrowman's own life -- he is openly gay -- has become very public. The actor will be entering a civil union with his partner on Dec. 27 in a ceremony not too far from the Torchwood Hub in Cardiff, and the entire cast of the show is expected to be there to support him.

"I don't mind people wanting to know about my personal life because I see my personal life being normal like everybody else's," Barrowman said. "And that's one of the things that I try to promote to young people and to people who don't understand is that you just have to accept it.

"I'm not asking that you live my life, but I'm asking that you accept my life. Jack has been an incredible figure for the British public because they're the ones who've accepted him, and in return, accepted me. So I'm really grateful to the writers Russell T. Davies and Steven Moffatt for creating Jack because it has opened up a whole bunch of doors for the British public to look upon sexuality as being no big deal. Which is a good thing."