Torchwood follows the exploits of your small team of alien-hunters, who make up the Cardiff, Wales branch from the fictional Torchwood Institute, which offers mainly with incidents involving extraterrestrials. Its central character is Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), an immortal ex-con man in the distant long term who may have lived in the world since the 19th century; Jack originally appeared within the 2005 series of Medical doctor Who. Below Jack's leadership, the formerly morally ambivalent organisation operates under a much more humanist ethos. Other than Barrowman, the series' initial primary cast contained Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori and Gareth David-Lloyd. Their characters are each and every specialists for that Torchwood team, usually investigating aliens and defending the planet from alien and nefarious human threats. In their first two series, the show utilizes a time rift in Cardiff becasue it is primary plot generator, accounting for the unusual preponderance of alien beings in Cardiff. Gorman and Mori's characters were written out from the programme following your second series. Recurring actor Kai Owen was promoted to the primary cast in series 3, by which David-Lloyd as well was written out. Subsequently, American actors Mehki Phifer, Bill Pullman and Alexa Havins join the cast with the display because of its fourth series.
Series one of Torchwood was filmed from Might 2006 till November 2006. For your second series, lead writer Chris Chibnall wrote the opening episode and also the three final episodes. Both Catherine Tregenna and Helen Raynor wrote two episodes for your second series. Another episodes have been compiled by James Moran, Matt Jones, J. C. Wilsher, Joseph Lidster, PJ Hammond and Phil Ford. Russell T Davies was announced as writing two episodes, but due to commitments to Physician Who, he no more anticipated writing any Torchwood episodes. For series three, Davies returned and wrote the first and final episodes, co-wrote episode 3 with James Moran, and plotted the general story arc himself. John Fay wrote episodes two and four.
Richard Stokes produced Series 1 & 2 of Torchwood. Originally, Medical doctor Who director James Hawes was aligned as producer. Following directing the BBC 4 drama The Chatterley Affair, Hawes backed out of the project. Davies told Medical doctor Who Magazine that Hawes "has been getting such a good time... that he's made the decision directing is his greatest passion, and consequently, he's stepped down." Series 3 was created by Peter Bennett. The series also shares Medical doctor Who's production designer, Edward Thomas. Music for that series is made up by Ben Foster and Medical doctor Who's composer Murray Gold.
In April 2007, Torchwood beat its parent series, and this is manufactured in Wales, to win the very best Drama Series category at the BAFTA Cymru Awards. The awards, provided by the Welsh branch from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, celebrate the achievements of film and television productions made in Wales. Eve Myles won the most effective Actress category at the same awards, ahead of Doctor Who's Billie Piper. In 2008, the episode "Captain Jack Harkness" was nominated for the Hugo Award for optimum Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.
