BBC Television Dramas (Film Guide) - Torchwood, Holby City, Eastenders, Neighbours, Blake's 7, Waterloo Road (TV Series), Sherlock (TV Series), Pride a (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 202. Chapters: Torchwood, Holby City, EastEnders, Neighbours, Blake's 7, Waterloo Road (TV series), Sherlock (TV series), Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series), Hustle (TV series), Life on Mars (TV series), Spooks, Edge of Darkness, BBC television drama, The Cut (UK TV series), Quatermass and the Pit, Rome (TV series), Colditz (TV series), Merlin (TV series), Tenko (TV series), Wings (BBC TV series), Survivors (2008 TV series), Ashes to Ashes (TV series), Orde Wingate, Land Girls (TV series), Jekyll (TV series), Quatermass II, The Day After Tomorrow (TV special), Accused (TV series), When the Boat Comes In, The Third Man, Adam Adamant Lives, The Quatermass Experiment, The Chase (TV series). Excerpt: Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from the 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from BBC Three to BBC Two to BBC One, and acquiring U.S. financing in its fourth series when it became a co-production of BBC One and Starz. In contrast to Doctor Who, whose target audience includes both adults and children, Torchwood is aimed at an older audience. Torchwood follows the exploits of a small team of alien-hunters, who make up the Cardiff, Wales branch of the fictional Torchwood Institute, which deals mainly with incidents involving extraterrestrials. Its central character is Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), an immortal former con-man from the distant future; Jack originally appeared in the 2005 series of Doctor Who. Other than Barrowman, the initial main cast of the series consisted of Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori and Gareth David-Lloyd. Their characters are specialists for the Torchwood team, often tracking down aliens...