Torchwood

BBC has announced a new spin-off series to follow the latest and extremely popular reincarnation of Dr Who - it's called Torchwood (which is, of course, an anagram of Dr Who). Now those of you that remember the catastrophic K-9 spin-off may cringe, but wait! This one is going to be targeted to an adult audience, and will star my absolute favourite guest start of the last series, John Barrowman as Captain Jack.

"Torchwood will be a dark, clever, wild, sexy, British crime/sci-fi paranoid thriller cop show with a sense of humour - the X Files meets This Life," says Russell T Davies.

"It's a renegade bunch of investigators charged by the British government to find alien technology that has fallen to Earth," BBC Three controller Stuart Murphy told The Independent.

The show will be set in Cardiff, and will be 13 45-minute episodes, transmitting between series of Doctor Who. Confirmed writers include Sapphire and Steel creator PJ Hammond.

It sounds perfect, and I can't wait - Russell T Davies is certainly the man to do it.

But meanwhile, in the spirit of the marvellous Llama Song, you can amuse yourself by listening to the Dalek Song (which contains some major spoilers for those who haven't seen the latest series and are still planning).

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