Doctor Who - Synopsis and Trailer for Torchwood: The Conspiracy

Out now is the first release in Big Finish's Torchwood audio adventures. The first story stars John Barrowman as Captain Jack.  This is the first part of a six as the stories have a linking theme.  You can get the first release from the Big Finish website.
http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-conspiracy-1294

Captain Jack Harkness has always had his suspicions about the Committee. And now Wilson is also talking about the Committee. Apparently the world really is under the control of alien lizards. That’s

Doctor Who - Celebrating 10 Years of NuWho: BadWolf/The Parting of the Ways Review

Doctor Who:
Bad Wolf/ The Parting of the Ways 
By Russell T. Davies

“I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words, I scatter them in time and space. A message to lead myself here.”

The Doctor, Rose and Jack have been taken off the TARDIS by a teleport and dropped into familiar game shows of the past that are now housed on Satellite 5.  The Doctor is concerned that something isn’t what it seems especially if whoever it is is powerful enough to teleport them from inside the TARDIS.   The Doctor and Jack both escape their games but Rose is in trouble on The Weakest Link game and is in danger of being disintegrated.  Unfortunately they are too late and the Anndroid does the deed and Rose is dead.

The Doctor and Jack make their way to level 500 and Jack discovers the TARDIS in one of the archive rooms.  He also makes another discovery.  Rose isn’t dead in fact she has been teleported somewhere else.  The Doctor tries and figures out what is going on by talking to the controller.  What he discovers brings terror to him and to Jack.  Rose is on a Dalek ship and there appears to be an armada of them.  The Doctor must save Rose and defeat the Dalek invasion force even if it costs him his Ninth incarnation.

Doctor Who - 10th Anniversary of NuWho: The Empty Child/ The Doctor Dances Review

Doctor Who
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
By Steven Moffat

“What's life? Life's easy. A quirk of matter. Nature's way of keeping meat fresh. Nothing to a nanogene. One problem, though. These nanogenes, they're not like the ones on your ship. This lot have never seen a human being before. Don't know what a human being's supposed to look like. All they've got to go on is one little body, and there's not a lot left. But they carry right on. They do what they're programmed to do. They patch it up. Can't tell what's gasmask and what's skull, but they do their best. Then off they fly, off they go, work to be done. Because, you see, now they think they know what people should look like, and it's time to fix all the rest. And they won't ever stop. They won't ever, ever stop. The entire human race is going to be torn down and rebuilt in the form of one terrified child looking for its mother, and nothing in the world can stop it!”

The Doctor and Rose are chasing a metal cylinder through the time vortex.  It is a high priority and The Doctor uses the TARDIS computers to lock in on it and follows it to Earth.  They land in London in the year 1941 during the height of German bombing blitz.  The problem is it will be difficult for The Doctor and Rose to find the cylinder as it is war time and the army is guarding it.  Rose wanders off and ends up getting caught hanging onto the rope of a barrage balloon as she was trying to help a kid on a roof wearing a gas mask.  She is soon rescued by the mysterious Captain Jack Harkness who knows where the cylinder is and wants to sell it for profit and wants to make a deal with Rose and The Doctor.

Doctor Who - 10 Years of Captain Jack

Today is the 10th anniversary of the first appearance of Captain Jack played by John Barrowman.  Captain Jack made his debut in the 9th Doctor story The Empty Child written by Steven Moffat.  Hard to believe it has been 10 years since he first graced our TV screens and who would have imagined what he would get to after his debut.  Below are two videos the BBC released today commemorating his first appearance.

Doctor Who - Big Finish To Make Torchwood Audio Adventures

Great news for Torchwood fans.  Big Finish has secured the rights to make audio adventures for Torchwood.  The first release will be in September and will be part one of The Conspiracy and each adventure will focus on each member of the team.  The first part focuses on Captain Jack played by John Barrowman.  You can read the press release below and you can preorder the series from the Big Finish Website.
http://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-conspiracy-1294

Big Finish proudly presents John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness in Torchwood - an all new series of audio dramas based on the fantastic Doctor Who spin-off series.

Torchwood, the intrepid team of alien investigators, returns in a series of six audio productions, as part of a licensing deal with BBC Worldwide.

Happy Birthday John Barrowman!!!

Happy Birthday to the man who brings Captain Jack to life. Have a good one Captain.

Give someone Captain Jack Harkness for the holidays

If you know a Captain Jack Harkness fan who has been good this year - make that very good - we've found the perfect holiday gift - an official replica Royal Air Force coat.

For just $329.99 (remember - we said "very good"), you can have the BBC-licensed product.

Among the coat's features, according to ThinkGeek, (sorry, immortality not included) are:

• Fully lined
• Replica RAF brass buttons
• Exact replica belt buckle
• Back kick pleat with hidden buttons
• Double-breasted closure
• Functional inside and outside pockets
• Non-wool fabric (actor John Barrowman is allergic to wool!)
• It is 80 per cent polyester and 20 per cent nylon

John Barrowman doubts Captain Jack will return to Dr. Who

Waiting for a reunion? Don't hold your breath.

You want it.

He wants it.

We want it.

But it still may not happen. In fact, John Barrowman, who parlayed a guest appearance on "Dr. Who" into his own series, "Torchdwood," doubts Capt. Jack Harkness will ever return to the show that gave birth to the immortal from the future. As he told David Bentley of The Coventry Telegraph:

"Everybody keeps asking me and if I'm offered I would love to. I think it would be great. There is no plan to do that. No one has come forward. I don't think it'll happen. I'm always open for it, but who knows?"

A Converstation, via Twitter, with John Barrowman

The world, according to Jack.

Live forever and you, too, can learn valuable lessons.

For instance, according to John Barrowman, immortality brings with it the ability to run in a long coat.

He was joking, of course (we think), but that was among the questions that the actor fielded Sunday during a Twitter chat with Latin American fans via BBC Entertainment Latin America.

Below are some of the highlights. For the entire transcript on Facebook, click here.

@Carlos_S01 Hi John keep up the good work! Is there any chance of Captain Jack appearing on #DoctorWho soon?

Not that I know of but I never say never. I'd love Captain Jack to be involved with the Doctor Who anniversary #JBenVivo

John Barrowman as Dr. Who? In a dress?

John Barrowman - really - from "La Cage Aux Folles"

When the time comes for "Dr. Who" star Matt Smith to regenerate his career in another direction, filling his shoes (high heels?) on the popular sci fi show could be John Barrowman.

Barrowman, in an interview with The Press Association, jokingly volunteered for the part after suggesting the next Doctor should be a woman:

"Put me in a dress and I'll be the female doctor."