John Barrowman: 'Torchwood is in limbo'
Published Nov 11 2011, 15:07 GMT | By Morgan Jeffery
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Starz CEO Chris Albrecht has indicated that the sci-fi drama might not return for another season, following the conclusion of the ten-part Miracle Day.
"We've pushed the pause button now because we don't know what's happening," Barrowman told RTÉ Ten. "I would love to do a new series and I will play Captain Jack as long as they want me to play Captain Jack."
However, he added: "It's in limbo at the moment and beyond my control."
Barrowman also suggested that Torchwood could return as a feature film.
"I think that Torchwood, more so than [parent series] Doctor Who, lends itself to being a big film because it's more adult," he said.
Torchwood executive producer Julie Gardner recently admitted that the show's future is uncertain.
"I don't know if there will be more," she said. "It... has been across so many different channels and so many international audiences, across so many different story structures, and so many numbers of episodes. There's no single way forward for the show."
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Watch John Barrowman discuss the last series of Torchwood below:
Bring back Jack. It's been too long.
August 4th 2012 at 9:07pm(+1 like)
Pat Sissons ok BRITISH then if you want to be pedantic...jeez
January 28th 2012 at 6:12pm
I didn't mind miracle day as much as everyone else did, but I wouldn't work for another season. Bring it back to 'Children of Earth' quality. And if it's going to be one story, don't make it ten bloody episodes!
December 21st 2011 at 1:36pm
Series 3 'Children of Earth' was by far the best series. I loved that and it became EVENT TV at work, everyone discussing it the next day. Whereas 'Miracle Day' was virtually ignored by my colleagues, there was just two of us following it. I liked it! Don't get me wrong, Russell T Davies is a genius, just didn't love it.
December 4th 2011 at 2:30pm
Josh Jenkins It isn't so much the small scale, Josh, but the time-span. 'Children of Earth' took place over a period of days, or a week-or-two at most. Season one and two took place in Cardiff, and the events didn't really last a massively long time. But 'Miracle Day' was a global story, which lasted for months, and was big enough that it makes The Doctor look kind of sloppy for not noticing that this had happened, and putting a stop to it. I know it may seem pedantic, but when they explicitly mention The Doctor by name in the show, as well, it really draws a huge amount of attention to how little sense it makes. I mean, does The Doctor manage to leave the room every time someone says, "Hey, remember that time we all STOPPED DYING?!" The problem isn't that it ruins the story, but ruins the internal logic of that fictional universe and damages the suspension of disbelief.
It is the old problem that often shows up in comics when they have a shared universe and one writer completely contradicts another with their approach to a character or group, and then somewhere down the line someone has to put it right. Like, for example, say Daredevil shows up in 'Amazing Spider-Man' in a new costume he got in a story where Bullseye was resurrected, but they specifically refer to Bullseye being dead in that issue. Suddenly, you have a contradiction that needs to be addressed. It may be as simple as The Doctor running into Jack and commenting, "I heard everyone turned into a version of you. Surprised they managed to get out of bed long enough to complain about it. I would've helped but me and the Ponds were sipping Noxious Verrasian Ice Tea out in the Zeros Nebula, and it may have put me into a tiny, tiny, year-long coma. But I'm better now!"
November 28th 2011 at 10:35am