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John Barrowman has once more been chatting about returning to the role of Captain Jack in both Doctor Who and Torchwood.

Speaking at this year’s Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2), he first spoke about Doctor Who and a possible meeting with the 11th Doctor: “I’ve spoken to Russell [T. Davies] about it and he thinks it would be a great idea for Jack to meet Matt Smith’s Doctor.

“Matt and I actually had a conversation about it at the BBC and he thought it would be a great idea; Steven [Moffat] said it would be a great idea.”

He added: “Great ideas sometimes never happen and sometimes they do. You’ll just have to watch this space!”

Regarding Torchwood, he said: “If they wanted to do more Torchwood, I would be back at the drop of a hat.

“I would be very upset if they did it without me and went another direction. I would be gutted. I don’t think the fans would enjoy it without Captain Jack.”

“Captain Jack is an iconic figure; he’s a hero. No matter where I am, as long as it works out in my schedule, I will come back to play him. But who knows what’s going to happen.”

With both Doctor Who and Sherlock on the go, Steven Moffat has quite a lot on his plate. So it comes as little surprise to learn he isn’t planning any Whoniverse spin-offs in the near future.

“I’m not against it. Spin-off shows happen because you think ‘That is so good, you should spin it off’ – but personally I’m relatively busy,” he explained.

So any fans holding out for The Madame Vastra & Jenny Show, probably best not get your hopes up.

Doctor Who’s only remaining spin-off, Torchwood, is said to be in a state of limbo with its future uncertain.

US network Starz, this week gave an small update. Chris Albrecht told Multichannel: “Obviously, we’re in touch with the BBC all the time. They are our partners on DaVinci’s Demons and the Harem project that you just mentioned. We told them, we stand by ready for any news, but I think it would be a while before Russell came back to Torchwood.”

Russell T Davies is currently working on a new CBBC show, Wizards vs. Aliens, which had a title flip. It was previously Aliens vs. Wizards.

Thanks Pdurston.

When Captain Jack was first introduced back in The Empty Child two-parter, it was revealed that the character had had two years of his memories erased.

To this day, this has never been addressed in either Doctor Who or Torchwood. However, Steven Moffat gave an update in Doctor Who Magazine when asked if he ever intended to follow up.

Moffat explained: “I don’t know. Ask Russell. No, ask me. No, ask Russell. Fact is, I wrote it in on a whim, in The Doctor Dances, just because it fitted the scene, and give Jack bit of mystery. Russell liked it, but worried we’d that be stuck with it. I offered to take it out, and he said yes. And then, no. And then, yes, hang on, no, maybe oh why are you doing this to me, Steven, I’m busy!

“And then Russell left, and I took over, and I figured it would probably be my problem. And then Torchwood came back and I figured it would be Russell’s. So ask Russell. No, ask me…

However Moffat promised resolution with an explanation in the future: “Look, we’ll figure out something some day, I promise…”

Perhaps if Jack returns in Series 7 or the 50th anniversary?

Eve Myles has given an update on the future of Torchwood and, as suspected for a while now, the show will not be returning in 2012.

“As far as I know at the moment, everything’s still very much on hold. Russell [T Davies] has things happening in his personal life,” she told Cultbox. “John [Barrowman] is very much on the same page as me, in that if and when they need us, they can just pick the phone up and we will be there before they’ve even put the phone down, because it’s something we love doing.

“Nothing’s going to happen in 2012, I know that much for sure. But who knows what will happen in 2013. Maybe a movie, to kinda draw a line under it.

She added: “That’s the thing about Torchwood, every series we’ve changed our format. We’ve always had a gap in between, so fingers crossed, because we’ve got such an outstanding loyal fan base. They deserve Torchwood to go ahead with something else to draw a line under it, for the fans to have a bit of closure.

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With the new year rapidly approaching, Clint Hassell takes look back at how 2011 changed the Whoniverse by examining in-depth each of the three Who-related series, starting with Torchwood: Miracle Day.

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John Barrowman really seems to be angling for a place in Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary special of late. He’s been chatting about returning to the show again and now thinks it would be a “travesty” if Jack didn’t turn up.

Speaking on This Morning today, Barrowman said: “I would love to [return]. I think that Captain Jack is such a big part of the new realm of Doctor Who that it would be a travesty if he wasn’t involved in some way.”

Barrowman also gave an update on Torchwood series 5 and says the show is still in limbo.

He said: “We have no idea. I can tell you honestly, I don’t even know. It’s a big decision. I would love another series, but all I can say is we’re in a little bit of a limbo state at the moment.”

In a question and answer session with the Independent, Eve Myles (Gwen) and Kai Owen (Rhys) gave their thoughts on the future of Torchwood.

What’s next for ‘Torchwood’?

KO: Who knows? It would be different. It might come back as a special.

EM: I think the next step would be a movie. We change every year. We have to change every year to keep it fresh and different and keep people interested because by the third, fourth, fifth series of ‘Lost’, ‘Sopranos’ however good they are, they’re extraordinary, but you know what you’re going to get. With ‘Torchwood’ we can live up to the name that you never know what you’re going to get.

KO: They can do whatever they want with the show.

EM: He [Russell T. Davies] amalgamated a wonderful kind of genre and it has been done before with ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’. He amalgamated Sci-Fi with really strong domestic drama and you’ve got characters in there that are normal and ordinary dealing with extraordinary circumstances which people find fascinating. We had 5 million every week, watching it and dedicated fans, people who had never seen Sci-Fi in their life. My mum’s in her 60s, my father’s in his 60s, they’ve never watched ‘Star Trek’ and they just got it. They had people within it that they could connect with.

KO: Because it has that real heart in the middle of it that Russell writes, real people and the fantastical element of it all. People who have no interest in Sci-Fi will sit and watch and be glued to ‘Torchwood’.

EM: I feel very honoured to be a part of it and whatever happens in the future happens. But up to this point, I’m very honoured to have played Gwen Cooper and am very honoured to have been led by John Barrowman and Russell T. Davies and Julie Gardner.

KO: I completely second that. It’s the best job ever and if they wanted to do five more years of ‘Torchwood’ or ten more years of ‘Torchwood’ and they wanted me in as part of it, if I was lucky enough to be a part of it, I would do it every time.

Torchwood may still be a part of the Whoniverse, but Eve Myles believes Gwen will not play any part in Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary.

Myles told the Independent: “We have lots of adult themes running in ‘Torchwood’ and I think it would be inappropriate for us to have anything to do with ‘Doctor Who’ because it’s predominantly a family programme.

“I think that where ‘Torchwood’ is, it deals with darker subjects and I think inter-mixing them, if they want to do that, then fine but I can tell you that I’m not involved in it – they won’t give me guns or a bazooka.”

We guess Myles forgot about Torchwood’s role in in The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End. Not to mention Gwen and Ianto firing guns. Still, aside from Jack, it’s hard to imagine any other members from the team turning up.

John Barrowman has given an update on the future of Torchwood, and it’s not looking good.

Barrowman says the show is in a state of limbo at the moment with no sign of movement.

Asked if the show will return again for a fifth series, he said, “If there’s a pause button, we’ve pushed the pause button now because we don’t know what’s happening.”

He added: “I would love to do a new series and I will play Captain Jack as long as they want me to play Captain Jack, but it’s in limbo at the moment and beyond my control.”

So it appears that any hopes for another series any time soon are slim.

John Barrowman has said he wants to do a Doctor Who film with David Tennant as the Doctor.

Speaking to RTE, he explained: “I think that Torchwood, more so than Doctor Who, lends itself to being a big film because it’s more adult.”

Before adding: “Now if it was Doctor Who with David playing the Doctor – I’m going to get in trouble for saying this – I’d happily do a film with him.”

Poor Matt Smith. It’s not like Barrowman is biased or anything not having appeared yet with the 11th Doctor…