CAPTAIN JACK WITHOUT BILLY JOEL: In our Emmy roundtable, Kim asked whether the advent of high-quality serialized shows was the death-knell for the miniseries. Tomorrow night marks an interesting test of that hypothesis, with Torchwood: Children of Earth making its debut on DVD. Torchwood has run for two "series" on BBC America, and rather than a traditional 13 episode series, this one is a five-night mini series, which TV Guide (and Mo Ryan) are calling "the television event of the summer."
Torchwood is a Doctor Who spinoff, sort of in the Buffy/Angel vein, with Torchwood (like Angel) being considerably more violent and sexual, chroniciling the exploits of the Cardiff branch of "Torchwood," a secret institution devoted to protecting the world from various supernatural threats--this time, every single child in the world stopping for a minute is apparently a harbinger of even more serious things to come. If just for John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness, the swashbuckling pansexual immortal, it's worth checking out, and apparently, after two mixed bags of a series, all cylinders are filing. Check it out on BBC America starting tomorrow night.
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