The first recording today starts with the end of Mysti.
There’s a trail for Best of Friends Music Special.
Then, a new episode of M.I. High – The Fugitive.
There’s an actual flying saucer. It’s spotted by Stewart, who’s very excited, as he loves conspiracy theories and pseudoscience.
The team have to find and guard the crashed ship, until Air One arrive to take over the mission.
The Air One team is led by Carla Terrini, a former protégé of Lenny.
The Grandmaster seems to have run short of actual agents, because he recruits his nephew to look for the crashed ship. “The probe! A window from the cockpit. Made from some high-tech carbon. Imagine what sights must have been seen through here.”
Rose and Daisy find the ship.
Blane tracks the pilot of the ship into the school gym. Is it an alien?
No, it’s a young boy called Lu.
Stewart hooks up with the Grandmaster’s nephew, Agent Zero. They really are peas in a pod. Even their sweatshirts match.
Carla wants to capture Lu and experiment on him, as he’s been genetically modified to withstand high G-Forces.
There’s some jeopardy when Carla captures Lu, and we’re not sure if Lenny will obey her orders or side with his team.
But when the team break into the mobile lab to rescue Lu, and Carla and her team run up to catch them, Lenny drives the lab away. “Don’t worry, I’m on your side. I just had to keep Carla on board until I knew her plans.”
Rose fixes the craft with her own dimensional stabilizer which she happened to be working on before the craft crashed.
They say goodbye to Lu.
Carla orders them arrested, but Lenny knows the rules. “Since the probe is leaving our airspace approximately… Now, and according to MI9 rules on agency precedents, clause 8, subsection 9, Air One no longer has jurisdiction over me or my team. So clear off.” “You’re gone soft, Lenny. You’ve been hanging around these kids too long.” “We’re the ones who achieved our objectives, not you. Trust may be a two-way street, but it’s knowing right from wrong that speeds us down life’s motorway.”
Media Centre Description: Children’s spy drama. When a UFO crashes nearby, the spies are tasked with securing the site for aviation agency, AirOne, headed by Lenny’s friend Carla Terrini. Lenny’s loyalties are torn when he’s forced to deceive the team, but the team discover the craft has a human pilot and Lenny’s lies unravel. Daisy can’t come to terms with Lenny’s betrayal. Will she find out what Lenny’s up to, or will the team become fugitives themselves?
Recorded from CBBC Channel on Friday 4th April 2008 14:18
BBC Genome: CBBC Channel Friday 4th April 2008 14:20
After this the recording stops with the start of Freefonix.
The next recording is a repeat of an episode of UFO – The Cat with Ten Lives.
Media Centre Description: Gerry Anderson’s live action sci-fi adventure series about a secret organisation set up to protect the Earth from alien invaders. A Siamese cat brings sinister drama into the lives of a SHADO pilot and his wife.
Recorded from ITV4 on Friday 4th April 2008 14:58
After this the recording stops with the start of an episode of The Champions.
The next recording is another repeat, of The Simpsons – All Singing, All Dancing.
Media Centre Description: A compilation of musical highlights.
Recorded from Channel 4 on Friday 4th April 2008 17:58
The recording stops with the start of Hollyoaks.
The next recording is a repeat of Star Trek: The Next Generation – Hide and Q.
Media Centre Description: Sci-fi drama series. Riker is offered god-like powers in exchange for joining the Q continuum.
Recorded from Virgin1 on Friday 4th April 2008 19:58
After this the recording stops with the start of Blade.
The next recording starts with a trail for the Grand National.
Then, it’s the series finale of Torchwood – Exit Wounds.
Jack old partner Captain John Hart is back, and there’s mayhem happening all over Cardiff. Jack goes back to the hub to try and reason with him. He’s playing “I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper” by Sarah Brightman, and calls it “Our Song” so he’s clearly deranged. He tells Jack he really loves him, then shoots him. A lot.
PC Andy calls Gwen to the police station, where four of the most senior officers have been killed by Weevils. He’s worried about Rhys being there. “Rhys, what you doing here? This is a confidential crime scene. If what happened here gets out, there’ll be a citywide panic.” “Rhys won’t go blabbing.” “I’m keeping more secrets than you’d believe.” “Like what?” “Like a Time Agency. Based in Cardiff!” Gwen corrects Rhys. “Oh, it’s not based in Cardiff.” Andy says “Brilliant secret – I ask, you tell, well done(!)” I love PC Andy.
Tosh and Ianto go to the Central Server Building where all the important computer systems are housed. “even looks after the server systems for the nuclear station at Turnmill” which I’m sure will turn out to be important. There’s three figures dressed like Death there. “Devils! Blasphemers! Pray to your heathen God. While in the Lord’s name, we cast you out!”
So Tosh and Ianto shoot them. “There we are then. Sorted.”
Captain John has chained up Jack with electrified shackles, and he gives him a speech about how Jack doesn’t love him enough. He really is the most pathetic whiny baby.
He calls up the rest of the team and tells them all to get to a high roof, takes Jack up to one somewhere, and sets off a series of explosions around Cardiff.
Then he grabs Jack and disappears.
They reappear in Cardiff in the year 27 AD, and it’s looking nice and rural. John shows Jack why he was doing everything he did. He’s got a bomb bonded to his arm. “Add to that a surveillance circuit, to monitor my every word and action, and he has me doing anything I’m told. Cos if I don’t…boom! I’m not my own man. I thought you’d see that. No, you’re so self-obsessed you thought I’d want to blow up the stupid city! When I could be experiencing 17 simultaneous pleasures in the Lotus Nebula!”
And who’s been remote controlling him all this time? It’s Gray, Jack’s brother who he lost on their home planet during an alien attack when he let go of his hand. I’m sure he’s learned important life lessons through surviving his ordeal and become a better person as a result – oh wait, he’s stabbed Jack and tells John to grab a shovel. So all of John’s apparent pissyness was actually Gray’s. Still doesn’t make him a remotely interesting character, though.
A grave has been dug, and Gray pushes Jack into it. “This is Cardiff. 27AD. The city will be built here, over the next 2,000 years. Your grave will be the city’s foundations. Your blessing of life becomes a curse. Each time you revive, with a throatful of earth, each time it chokes you afresh, and you thrash on the edge of death, you think of me.” John throws a ring on Jack’s chest. “What’s that?” “It’s, er, sentimental value.” Then he has to fill the grave.
Both Gray and John reappear in modern Cardiff. Gwen goes to the hub to investigate the rift activity, and finds John. He now wants to help. “I know where Jack is.” “You’re lying.” “He’s buried alive, somewhere beneath this city. I came back to help you.” “You bombed this city!” “Listen to me! You have to believe me. It’s Gray, Jack’s brother, that’s been doing all this.” “Don’t talk rubbish.” “He placed a bomb on me, molecularly bonded the detonator to my skin, I had to do what he wanted.”
But there’s no sign of the signal from John’s ring. Then a piercing sound starts. Gray is summoning all the Weevils.
Ianto comes back to the hub and they take care of a few weevils who’ve got out. But when they drag them into the cells, the doors lock, and all the systems go down. It’s Gray.
The Turnmill Nuclear Power Station has lost power, and is going to go into Meltdown. Owen is the only team member that can get there, through all the weevils. He tells the only technician there to leave, as it’s too dangerous to stay. Then he calls Tosh to find out what they can do. “I’m gonna try and divert power from the auxiliary source back to Turnmill. If that works, I can talk you through restoring the coolant system.”
But then Tosh is shot in the stomach by Gray.
He hears a banging noise from somewhere in the Hub and goes to look for the source of the sound, while Tosh crawls away, trying to get to her communicator. Gray follows the sound to the morgue, opens up the door, and it’s Jack. “I forgive you.”
Back in 1901, the old Torchwood detect the signal, and dig Jack up, suspicious why their own agent would be buried 20 feet deep. “And now I need you to put me in the morgue. Freeze me, set the alarm to defrost in 107 years time.”
“I begrudge you everything. I want to rip it all from you, to leave YOU screaming in the dark. I will never absolve you. All of it, it’s your fault.” “I know. I know, Gray.” Then Jack uses the old Chloroform hanky to knock Gray out.
Tosh manages to restore power to the nuclear plant, but it’s too late to stop a meltdown. “The only option is to vent the flow channels internally.” “Vent them where?” “The area you’re in is the containment building.” “Yeah?” “You need to set up a time-delay programme, channel the fuel into that bunker and instigate permanent lockdown. Seal the building and the meltdown will be contained within. And, obviously, remember to get out.”
But it’s never that easy, and a power surge locks down the building before Owen can get out. They have a touching farewell. “We never did get that date, did we, you and me? We sort of, er, missed each other. It was my fault. I didn’t… notice until it was too late. I’m sorry.” Tosh replies “Me too.”
Jack and Gwen find Tosh. But it’s too late for her too.
So now there’s only three left. Surely now’s the time to recruit PC Andy?
Media Centre Description: Science-fiction crime drama series set in Cardiff. Captain John returns to have his revenge. Taking Captain Jack prisoner, he sends him back in time for a long overdue reunion. Meanwhile, Cardiff is flooded with Weevils. Who is Captain John really working for?
Recorded from BBC TWO on Friday 4th April 2008 20:58
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Friday 4th April 2008 21:00
After this, there’s another trail for tomorrow’s Doctor Who, plus trails for Louis Theroux’s African Hunting Holiday and Young Mum’s Mansion.
Then the recording stops with the start of Torchwood: Declassified.
The full recording of Torchwood: Declassified is on the next recording.
James Marsters: “It’s very good to play Captain John again. He’s the nastiest character I’ve ever played in my life and it’s nice. We’re not really going over the same ground this time. He’s a little different this time. He’s on a journey.”
John Barrowman: “Captain John, we think is trying to destroy Torchwood when in the reality of the whole situation, John is being manipulated by somebody else.”
Chris Chibnall: “That sense of can you trust him or can’t you was what was lovely to play upon in Episode 13.”
Richard Stokes: “We think he’s the selfish anarchic guy that we saw in Episode 1 of Series 2 but actually we realise that his affection and love for Captain Jack is enough to make him try and do the noble thing.”
Ashley Way: “When Captain Jack first sees his brother in the field, you imagine there’s going to be this homecoming, the two brothers together in a very warm and emotional scene. What it turns into of course is a murder.”
Lachlan Nieboer on his character Gray: “It’s kind of saddening. The guy’s just been really, really, really tortured and has been surrounded by corpses for many, many years and he’s just very, very bitter and hates his brother a very great deal and that’s just the measure of his personality.”
Eve Myles on the shock of losing two of the team. “I was unable to read those scenes. I’d scan them, but I was unable to work on them up until the point that we would do in them because they upset me so much.”
Burn Gorman; “Now, I certainly had a few conversations with Chris Chibnall about the ending because what you don’t want is a syrupy 12-minute dying scene. What you need is somebody to be in peril and then die, and that’s the end of it.”
Naoko Mori: “I’ve been playing Tosh for two series now, and you become accustomed to her, you know. You care about her, and it was really difficult. I was so nervous for the whole weekend before we shot it. I just wanted to do it right.”
Media Centre Description: We talk exclusively to stars of the show John Barrowman and James Marsters, plus creator Russell T Davies. Torchwood Declassified is back behind the scenes for the climax of this thrilling series.
Recorded from BBC TWO on Friday 4th April 2008 21:48
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Friday 4th April 2008 21:50
After this there’s a trail for Clowns, a promo for George Lamb on Radio 6 Music and a promo for FA Cup Football.
Then the recording stops with the start of an episode of QI.
The next recording starts with the end of Balls of Steel.
Then it’s a repeat of yesterday’s episode of Big Bang Theory – The Dumpling Paradox.
Media Centre Description: Flat-share comedy series about two brainy but socially clueless physicists. Wolowitz seduces Penny’s friend and commandeers her apartment, leaving Penny to sleep on Leonard and Sheldon’s couch. As Wolowitz is occupied, the guys ask Penny to join one of their two-person Halo teams.
Recorded from Channel 4 on Friday 4th April 2008 23:48
After this the recording stops with the start of the Shockwaves Album Chart Show.
The next recording today starts with the end of Blue Car.
There’s a trail for Eastenders.
Then it’s a repeat of Star Trek: The Next Generation – Hero Worship.
Media Centre Description: Sci-fi drama series set aboard the USS Enterprise. Data has to get to the bottom of an implausible tale told by a little boy found among the debris of a wrecked vessel. As they spend more time together, the rescued boy begins to emulate everything his new-found friend does.
Recorded from BBC TWO on Saturday 5th April 2008 01:58
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Saturday 5th April 2008 02:00
After this there’s a trail for I’d Do Anything.
Then the recording stops wit the start of the next episode.
The next recording overlaps, and it’s a repeat of Star Trek: The Next Generation – Violations.
Media Centre Description: Sci-fi drama series about the crew of the USS Enterprise. When alien visitors with telepathic powers board the Enterprise, Troi, Riker and Dr Crusher go into unexplained comas.
Recorded from BBC TWO on Saturday 5th April 2008 02:38
BBC Genome: BBC TWO Saturday 5th April 2008 02:40
After this there’s a trail for The Grand National.
The recording stops with the start of a quadruple bill of Arrested Development.
Here’s the UFO ad breaks.
Here’s the Simpsons ad breaks.
Here’s the Star Trek ad breaks.
Here’s the Big Bang Theory ad breaks.
Adverts:
- Fair & Square
- Confused.com
- BT Free Evening & Weekend Calls – Kris Marshall
- Michelin
- Olympus Tough
- Abbey
- Sky Broadband
- BT Total Broadband – Kris Marshall
- Mitsubishi
- The Guardian
- Dark Sector
- Michelin
- trail: ITV4 Action Movies
- Ucan Car Credit
- Sky
- BT Free Evening & Weekend Calls – Kris Marshall
- Lovefilm
- Computeach
- Magners
- trail: Teenage Kicks
- Tiscali
- Skills Train
- Blu Step
- National Accident Helpline
- Lloyds TSB
- Mitsubishi
- trail: ITV4 Action Movies
- trail: Headcases
- Hyundai i10
- BT Total Broadband – Kris Marshall
- Dark Sector
- The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford on DVD
- itv.com catch-up
- trail: Desperate Housewives
- Virgin Media – Samuel L Jackson
- Vodafone
- Garage Classics
- Rimmel 60 Seconds
- Fool’s Gold in cinemas
- Maybelline Pure Foundation Mineral
- Sheila’s Wheels
- Homebase
- trail: Sahara
- trail: T4 Weekend
- Sheila’s Wheels
- Marks & Spencer
- Wii PES 2008 – Ian Wright
- trail: The Friday Night Project
- trail: Blood Ties
- trail: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- trail: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- trail: Chuck
- Street Kings in cinemas
- Usher
- L’Oreal Sublime Bronze
- Petits Filous
- MFI
- Asda
- Iams
- 118 118
- San Miguel
- trail: Chuck
- trail: Criminal Minds
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- Skoda Fabia
- Fool’s Gold in cinemas
- E.on
- Stella Artois
- The Guardian
- B&Q
- Comet
- E.on
- Seabond
- trail: Chuck
- trail: The Kill Point
- trail: Chuck
- VW Polo
- McDonalds
- Avon Anew Clinical
- E.on
- Lloyds TSB
- Foxy Bingo
- More Than
- trail: Chuck
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- Walker’s Crisps – Summer Holiday – Gary Lineker
- Snoop Dogg – Ego Trippin
- Pathology in cinemas
- Sun Bites
- Petits Filous
- trail: Chuck
- trail: Dirty Sexy Money
- Woolworth’s
- Garage Classics
- trail: FIlm 4 George Clooney Day
- Fosters
- Halifax
- Funny Games in cinemas
- Transitions
- PartyCasino.com
- Awake in cinemas
- Herbal Essences
- Michelin
- Mariokart Wii
- trail: Desperate Housewives
- trail: Celebrity Come Dine With Me
- trail: Property Ladder
- No More Heroes
- Magners
- Garnier Dry Body Mist
- LittlewoodsDirect.com
- KFC
- Mini Babybel
- Usher
- Street Kings in cinemas
- Pantene
- trail: E4