It starts with a series of unexplained events. Earth tremors across the globe. People being driven insane by their heightened and scrambled senses. And the world is starting to notice - the number one Twitter trend is #TheLoco. Governments and scientists are bewildered and silent. The world needs Torchwood, but there's not much of Torchwood left. Captain Jack has tracked the problem to its source: a village in Peru, where he's uncovered evidence of alien involvement. Back in Cardiff, Gwen Cooper has discovered something lurking inside the Torchwood software - something alien and somehow connected to Jack. If the world is to be restored, she has to warn him - but she's quickly becoming a victim of the madness, too!

The cover for the second 2012 Torchwood audio exclusive adventure has been revealed. The story is titled "Fallout" and is written by David Llewellyn, read by Tom Price who plays PC Andy in the series. See the cover and synopsis below:

This thrilling story is set after the conclusion of the most recent TV series, Miracle Day, and finds Sgt Andy dealing with a bizarre double shooting and a deadly alien virus.

When Yasmin finds a jewelled egg in her grandfather’s shed, her first thought is to sell it. Unfortunately, the object is no valuable Fabergé antique, but a dangerous weapon from another planet. Worse still, the buyer she finds online is a Russian secret agent working for the Committee for Extraterrestrial Research, who promptly swipes it, kills her brother Sayed and lands her in hospital.

When Sgt Andy Davidson realises that he’s not dealing with an ordinary double shooting, he calls Gwen Cooper, who breaks the bad news about the egg and its deadly contents. With no Torchwood to help, and Gwen in America, it’s up to Andy and Yasmin to follow the trail of the ‘Shiva virus’ – all the way from Cardiff to the British Museum...

John Barrowman has joined with his sister, Carole E. Barrowman once again to co-write a new children's novel.  The Novel, Hollow Earth, which is non-Who/Torchwood related is about telepathic twins who have the ability to bring art to life.

Hollow Earth
John and Carol E. Barrowman
R.R.P.: £6.99
Released: 2nd February 2012

Lots of twins have a special connection - being able to finish each other's sentences; sensing what the other is thinking; perhaps even knowing when the other is in trouble or in pain - but for 12-year-old twins, Matt and Emily Calder, the connection is beyond special. Together, the twins have extraordinary powers. They are able to bring art to life, or enter paintings at will. Their abilities are sought by villains trying to access the terrors of Hollow Earth - a place where all the demons, devils and creatures ever imagined lie trapped for eternity. The twins flee with their mother to the security of an island, off the west coast of Scotland, where their grandfather has certain protective powers of his own. But too much is at stake, and the twins aren't safe there either. The villains will stop at nothing to find Hollow Earth and harness the powers within...

John Barrowman will appear as a guest presenter on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, a BBC Two comedy panel game-show, later this month. The Torchwood actor will be joined by Jason Manford, Phill Jupitus, Helen Skelton, Joe Wilkinson, Noel Fielding and Jason Derulo. Doctor Who’s Catherine Tate was a host last year, and the show even had its own Doctor Who themed special back in 2009! Don’t miss John Barrowmans appearance on December 19th at 10pm on BBC Two.

Russell T Davies has spoken to the Pink News to reveal that he has moved back to the UK after finding out that his boyfriend has been diagnosed with brain cancer.

“There we were, living in LA and loving it, I had shows lined up and everything when Andrew started to get these headaches. We wondered if it was the change of city, the water or the fact he wasn’t working. It was getting bad so we decided he’d see a doctor when we came back in August for a three-week holiday. He went to the doctor, who sent him for a scan. When we got the results they told us he had cancer of the brain. They needed to operate straight away. Three days later he was having surgery. That’s where we are now. He’s had thirty consecutive days of radiotherapy and chemotherapy and we’ve got six months of chemotherapy ahead of us. He’s not allowed to drive. The lives we had in LA just sort of closed down overnight. All of my stuff, my computers and clothes were over there. We had to have everything shipped over here in crates. We were lucky we never sold our house in Manchester. Lo and behold we’re now a ten minute drive from Europe’s best cancer hospital.”

Russell then goes on to reveal he is taking a break from writing and producing shows, this of course sadly including Torchwood.

“I’ve stopped work, I haven’t worked since August. We’re lucky we’ve got enough money in the bank that, if need be, I can take the whole of next year off. I’ve always been a good saver. I’ve always had that mentality that you’ve got to be ready for a rainy day. People keep asking me if I’ve really stopped working. I used to work so hard you see, they think I must be secretly working on something, but I’m not. It was a simple decision: he’s more important. Who gives a f**k about writing scripts if I can stay at home with him and make his day a bit happier?  I don’t know when I’ll start work again. I’ve got see how Andrew’s health goes.”

Russell’s hiatus also casts doubt on a future series of Torchwood. He tells me that Miracle Day, the show’s fourth season, didn’t do brilliantly. Reviews were mixed. With the head of American-partner Starz on record as saying he’d only bring back Torchwood if Russell was part of it, the outlook for the series is uncertain at best.

TARDIS Base gives our best wishes to Russell and Andrew.

“I would love to. 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.”

Check out some pictures of John Barrowman and Eve Myles at the Torchwood: Miracle Day signing in HMV London on Tuesday, thanks to JohnBarrowman.com

Watch a video of the event below:

HMV have announced that John Barrowman and Eve Myles will be signing copies of Torchwood: Miracle Day on DVD and Blu-ray at HMV on Oxford Street in London on Tuesday, the 29th of November! The signing will begin at 6pm, with restricted access. 300 wristbands will be available from the store on the day of the event from 8.30am on a first-come first-served basis.

If you are lucky enough to attend the signing be sure to send us your pictures to tardisbase@hotmail.com and we will post them!

Check out the full 30 minute version of Talking Who’s interview with the Torchwood cast! Talking Who is a series of online interviews and reviews posted on Youtube and at this years London Comic Con they talked to Eve Myles, Kai Owen, Arlene Tur and Alexa Havins. Watch the interview below!

Check out this funny video of John Barrowman and Eve Myles singing Katy Perry’s hit “Firework” during a break of filming Torchwood: Miracle Day. The footage was shown during John Barrowman’s live tour in Cardiff on Sunday, see below:

…writing “Miracle Gay” as the caption. Thanks to Combom.co.uk for this.

It seems the actor isn’t very positive about Torchwood anymore!

Eve Myles and Kai Owen spoke to the Independent to talk about what’s next for Torchwood, and the possibility of Torchwood crossing over into Doctor Who for the 50th anniversary in 2013. See what they had to say below:

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.

In 2013 ‘Doctor Who’ will be celebrating its 50^th anniversary, will ‘Torchwood’ be playing a part in it?

EM: I wouldn’t have thought so. 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.

Read the full interview here.

Last month we put up a new poll asking you which Doctor Who spin-off show is the best: Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, or K9? The results are now in, revealing that TARDIS Base readers favourite spin-off is TORCHWOOD.

62% of you voted Torchwood, whilst 36% preferred The Sarah Jane Adventures, with only two people voting for Disney XD’s K9 series. What were they thinking?