“Torchwood” on DVD today; season 2 premieres Jan. 26
Eve Myles stars as Gwen Cooper.
“Torchwood” Season One comes to DVD today. The second season premieres on BBC America on Saturday, Jan. 26. Look for my “Torchwood” DVD review in Friday’s Weekend Look in the Oklahoman. “Torchwood” features the Torchwood Institute, the beyond-the-government secret organization formed by Queen Victoria which deals with supernatural and alien threats. It stars John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness and Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper. Also on the team are medical officer Owen Harper (Burn Gorman), computer expert Toshiko Sato (Naoko Mori) and support personnel Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd).
Here’s a preview of my interview with Eve Myles, who will also be featured in an upcoming Weekend Look. She gets bonus points from me for saying she was very excited to be talking to someone from Oklahoma.
MATT: What was it like getting started with the first season of “Torchwood”?
EVE MYLES: We were all kind of going into unknown territory. We knew that it was coming off of the back, it’s a spinoff of “Doctor Who.” One of the characters from “Doctor Who” was Captain Jack Harkness, so it’s a spinoff with Captain Jack Harkness.
It’s an adult show, and going into it, 13 episodes, we didn’t get 13 scripts straightaway, we got two scripts. We kind of got the start of the flavor of the program.
Everybody was absolutely buzzing and excited and frightened and vulnerable. Everybody worked tremendously hard, all the departments … nothing was segregated, everybody worked very hard to make this project the best project they’d ever worked on.
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HI , I bought the season one dvd set.The last two episodes were not on the disks.They are listed inside the table of contents on the inside flap.What gives?Season one implies all the shows, NO? Disappointed and peeved.
I have since discovered that they had mistakenly placed two copies of “Disc 7″ in the DVD compilation. I am assuming that the missing episodes are on the missing disc #6.How can this be rectified?
Martin -
I haven’t seen a release about this being a widespread problem, but you never know. My first plan of attack would be to take it back to the store where you bought it, and ask if they can exchange it for one with all 7 discs. They shouldn’t have a problem returning a defective copy.
- Matt
I just got home today from Best Buy with my Torchwood DVD set and I have two disc 6 and no disc 7. Looks like I will have to go back to the store and try to swap it out.
I’ve looked into this a little more since Martin brought it up, and I’ve heard some other reports of people getting sets with some mixed-up discs. So far, no one’s brought to me a better solution than returning them to the store for a complete set, but you should definitely be able to do that.
- Matt
Extra points for you if you asked her about the gap between her front teeth!
Torchwood was surprisingly impactful for me. I didn’t expect much of it, but it, along with Doctor Who and Life on Mars, has become one of my favorite foreign TV shows. Can’t wait for season two, and congrats to the BBC for showing the new season in the US at the same time it shows in the UK.