"Kids love him, parents love him, kids love him, gay, straight – [they all] love him."

TV (Spoilers?) Amusing interview with Mr. John Barrowman on the US broadcast of Torchwood. On Captain Jack:

“He’s something that we’ve never seen before. Going to the obvious, he’s -- in terms of wording from this day and age -- he’s bisexual, but in the realm of the show, we call him omnisexual, because on the show, [the characters] also have sex with aliens who take human form, and sex with male-male, women-women, all sorts of combinations.

“But I think Jack has come across so well with the public is because he doesn’t judge on that. And he doesn’t let people just him on that. Because he is a hero, a sexy – I’m talking Captain Jack here, not me – a sexy hero with an ambition and a mission. The sexuality is completely secondary, and basically the comment is, that’s the way we should be with ourselves.”

Much of anything in here we've obviously read before, apart from the spoilery eye popping sentence about James Marsters, but the more interesting material is between the brackets as the interviewer has to explain the differing contexts that Doctor Who and Torchwood have on UK tv, presumably because the Sci-Fi Channel are knocking out the mother series at 9pm, after our watershed.


Oh and there's a bizarre interlude in which the head of BBC America where the series will appear seems to be under the impression that the episodes are an hour long (please god no), they're given a fifty minute version and then they cut another two minutes out themselves. Does that mean Ianto gets even less to do? [via]

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