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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.

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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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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.

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.

With the conclusion of Torchwood: Miracle Day and several loose ends remaining, many fans are wondering if the show will return next year.

At present there has been no official word from either the BBC or Starz on the future of the series. There has been some talk however.

Back in June, Russell T Davies revealed that: “I’ve got one more story that I can tell – just one more that has Gwen right at the centre of it – that would be fantastic.”

Adding: “The very interesting thing will be, what if [Miracle Day] does well on Starz but doesn’t do well on BBC1? Or if the BBC1 money is tight and they have to take money away – does it become entirely a Starz production, which means they have to own the rights? Would the BBC do that? Would they actually give away rights to an existing property?”

In July, Starz CEO Chris Albrecht indicated that more Torchwood was dependent on Russell T Davies: “Torchwood is not one of the shows we went into thinking about a yearly return. It’s about Russell T Davies – he has a lot of things on his plate. If Torchwood is not at the top of his list, that will affect the future of Torchwood.”

In August, Starz Entertainment and BBC Worldwide announced a multi-year partnership to develop, produce, and distribute more than 100 hours of new drama. Torchwood was not specifically named, but would almost certainly fall under this category.

Following the BBC Australia broadcast of the finale last week, a teaser saying “Jack will be back – January 2012″ was shown. However, this was later confirmed to be just an advert for a repeat run. There was no way a full series could air as early as January 2012 in any case. If a fifth series followed the same pattern as Miracle Day, filming would begin in January for a Summer 2012 broadcast.

Earlier this week John Barrowman said: “I hope they come back with a new series, but I have to wait. I haven’t heard anything yet. I don’t know when we will hear. I’ve been given a date but that date isn’t upon us yet. So once I know I still won’t be able to tell you but it means I then can plan out the rest of my year accordingly.”

In an interview with the Guardian, Russell T Davies has hinted at a potential fifth series of Torchwood.

“In theory I could have handed [Miracle Day] over to a bunch of strangers and said good luck to them – and if there was another series I might do that because I think there’s only so long you can spend doing Torchwood,” he said.

But Davies added: “I say that,” he laughs, “I start the series and I think, I’m never doing this again. [But] I’ve got one more story that I can tell – just one more that has Gwen right at the centre of it – that would be fantastic. So I’m my own worst enemy.”

However, Davies pointed out that the future of the show could be in an awkward spot: “The very interesting thing will be, what if [Miracle Day] does well on Starz but doesn’t do well on BBC1? Or if the BBC1 money is tight and they have to take money away – does it become entirely a Starz production, which means they have to own the rights? Would the BBC do that? Would they actually give away rights to an existing property?”