The BBC have released a trailer for the highly anticipated Torchwood sci-fi series. Torchwood is a 13-part drama series aimed at a post-watershed audience and has an organic link to Doctor Who. “Torchwood is a British sci-fi paranoid thriller, a cop show with a sense of humour,” says writer Russell T Davies. “It’s dark, wild and sexy, it’s the X Files meets This Life. It’s a stand-alone series for adult audiences which will have its own unique identity.”
Set in modern-day Cardiff, Torchwood stars John Barrowman as Captain Jack from Doctor Who; it was in the Christmas special and second series of Doctor Who that the story of Torchwood – a renegade group of investigators – was seeded. However, no stories will cross over between Torchwood and Doctor Who. The drama series is produced by BBC Wales and will be transmitted later this year.
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I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.