Torchwood – Miracle Day

John Barrowman has declared that Torchwood will still keep its British “heart” despite some of the production taking place in the US.

The actor, who plays Captain Jack Harkness, said that the series is still 100 per cent British.

“The global success, I’m just as bowled over by it as everybody else,” he told the Daily Star Sunday.

“It’s now partly made in America and partly made in the UK. Throughout the entire series we always return to Wales or some place in the UK. Anyone can turn it on and know exactly that they’re watching Torchwood.

“Yes, it’s a bit more glossy. We have other actors in it. We’re filming over there so we have to have other American actors in it.

“But it’s still 100 percent core, the heart of it is still British.”

Source: Digital Spy

The PA today report that Torchwood star John Barrowman enjoys the thrill of having what he calls a “fan-gasm” on the set of Torchwood,

This apparently happens when he discovers who’s starring in the show with him.

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The actor, who reprises his role as sexy time-traveller Captain Jack Harkness in the fourth series Miracle Day, tries not to know too much in advance about his own sci-fi series and who’s appearing in it, so he can enjoy the surprise.

“I don’t read ahead. I can’t give you any teasers. I don’t like to know, I’m a geek myself so I like to have my own little fan-gasm,” he said.

John and Eve Myles (as Jack’s Torchwood colleague Gwen Cooper) return for the new season alongside newcomers Bill Pullman as convicted murderer Oswald Danes and ER star Mekhi Phifer as Rex, who John said is “Jack’s worst nightmare”.

“What is great is that I don’t ask who the roles are being played by. I come into work and find Bill Pullman, president of the United States from Independence Day, in the make-up trailer,” he said.

“That’s why I do what I do. I don’t analyse it too much. I love doing the job, I don’t get too involved unless it’s my own show like Tonight’s The Night where I am co-producer. I leave it to the powers that be to make the decisions and I love getting a little fan-gasm myself.”

“We sign these secrecy clauses and we are not allowed to talk about what happens. But let me tell you, Miracle Day is jaw-dropping,” he added.

Torchwood: Miracle Day continues on BBC One.

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Captain Jack Harness is back as John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Alexa Havins and Mekhi Phifer star in the new series of Torchwood, set in a world where no one dies