The BBC series Torchwood, a Doctor Who spin-off, has started filming. It features John Barrowman reprising his role as Captain Jack Harkness who first appeared in last season's Doctor Who episode "The Empty Child" which aired here in the States last Friday on the Sci-Fi Channel. In this season's Doctor Who episode, "Tooth and Claw", we witness Queen Victoria establishing the Torchwood Institute, in part, to ensure that The Doctor never returns to hassle humanity again.
Harkness and his pulchritudinous partner, Gwen Cooper, are charged by the British government to investigate crimes as well as alien technology on the sly, meaning that the United Nations is not to know of their pursuits. Perhaps a Torchwood-UNIT showdown in the future? You can keep up with production at the wonderful Torchwood.TV blog.
The Sci-Fi Channel recently announced the list of projects in development and it included one called "Persons Unknown":
From Academy Award-winning writer Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects), who executive produces with Heather McQuarrie, Persons Unknown is a surreal mind-game of a series centering on a group of strangers who awaken in a deserted town with no memory of how they arrived, only to realize that there is no escape. Watched by omnipresent security cameras, their every attempt at leaving the town's borders is thwarted by mysterious forces. The only source of information is fed randomly through remotely controlled televisions, and as mistrust begins to breed, every alliance will be tested, especially when new guests begin to arrive. Persons Unknown is from Fox Television Studios.
Gee, that doesn't sound like The Prisoner, does it?
Finally, go check out Tom Baker Says. Baker, who played the 4th Doctor, now lends his voice to British Telecom. I guess he recorded various words and phenomes and now BT offers a service whereby users can text message something to BT and get a voice mail with Baker saying the message. This situation lends itself well to mayhem and the site has recordings of Baker telling jokes, quoting films, singing, as well as doing his Barry White imitation.
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