Captain Jack
Captain Jack to get his own series in new Russell T Davies drama for BBC THREE
Russell T Davies is to write a sci-fi paranoid thriller in a major new drama commission for BBC THREE, it was announced today by Stuart Murphy, Controller of BBC THREE.
Torchwood is a 13-part drama series aimed at a post-watershed audience and has an organic link to Doctor Who.
“Torchwood is a British sci-fi paranoid thriller, a cop show with a sense of humour,” says Davies.
So Captin Jack gets his own TV show, in an anagram of Doctor Who 
Wonderful!
Hmm… 26 weeks of Doctor Who-related material… that’s half a year’s worth!
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Well it’s past midnight, making it the 16th October and Dad’s birthday. Hurrah!
I just caught More4’s repeat of The Deal (huge thanks to Mr X for alerting me to it minutes before!) Great stuff – steeped deep in Labour Party mythology now I think, just as Helestine vs Thatcher is embedded in Tory memories. Watching the scenes of Labour in opposition was quite moving actually. Even if it wasn’t my generation.
I’ve changed my mind about the Tory leadership contest by the way – Cameron would be the best PM of the candidates, and the one Labour should be most worried about. Clarke is yesterday’s man. The drugs question shows Cameron to be principled. He has defended his right to have a private life, and quite rightly. He has also supported drug law reform, sometimes against his own party. I think he shows even the Conservatives can move on from Thatcherism. And what could be more hopeful that, whichever party wins the next election, we will never return to those days?
Daily Show: INdecision 2004
Unselfish deeds are all very noble, but kindness has a rather more practical quality – it helps us survive. Here’s why it’s better to be nice than nasty.
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I have a confession to make. I don’t like being horribly mutilated in a car accident, ending up face down in the gutter with blood pouring out of an eye. Being knocked off a motorbike in the middle of a motorway – with no helmet – doesn’t sound much fun either. And I’d like to keep my bones firmly inside my body, my neck free from whiplash, and my limbs at least vaguely connected.
OK, maybe I’m not alone. But I also don’t like hearing about this in a ‘special’ assembly on a Monday morning that seemed to misunderstand my complaint of dullness and trade it for extremely graphic descriptions of how we would die horribly in a car accident. And all this from a driving school instructor!
Fair enough – it’s a good idea to educate people and make them a bit more cautious on the road. But I’m odd in that I’ve never been gung-ho about driving… I expect I will learn how (prediction – after failing the test at least once) but I’m really, really not excited about the prospect of actually going anywhere. I mean honestly, I’m an introvert, and I live in a city with public transport and things so close you could even walk to them. If it’s dangerous enough to even take out your mobile on the streets of London, do I really want to be driving around congested streets in an expensive hunk of metal, with a huge insurance premium that’ll leave me unable to afford any petrol?
So yeah… I actually walked out of the assembly. Sorry, but I needed some water and fresh air!
Also in my life:
- More4 launched. The Daily Show, on TV, properly. Finally! And I’ve recorded A Very Social Secretary to watch at a later date.
- I got a nice comment from fellow NAGTY member Nathan Wong which led me to a few interesting blogs from his friends like Katy Moe and others. See, I was wrong about Aspire, it is cool!
- I love my hosts. They upgraded the email system today, providing IMAP subfolders for the first time.
- And various other things that happened, from tweaking Alex T’s stylesheets at school to feeling vaguely proud of our country (!) after reading today’s death penalty statement.
And finally, yesterday I was at our neighbour’s Christening which was lovely. There’s a Bar Mitzvah coming up soon in the diary too, just for balance! 
A Clockwork Orange
For those of you who haven’t read it, I’ll summarize – Alex is part of a teenage gang in a future society where crime is out of control. They spend their days beating up men and raping women, and Alex is also a big fan of classical music. Beethoven’s Ninth especially. Eventually he is caught by police and after a few years in prison is ‘cured’ of his violence using a form of brainwashing so that any time he has violent thoughts he feels sick and is unable to do it. By the end, after having been beaten up several times, he tries to commit suicide after being unable to even enjoy his music anymore. Somehow, the suicide attempt (he jumps out of a window) reverses the treatment but over time he matures and decides to ‘grow up’ of his own free will.
(Note – I haven’t seen the film, I hear it’s slightly different.)
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