Torchwood comes of age in two respects when it returns for its third series next year. It moves to prime channel BBC One; and it takes on a meaty single story arc that will occupy the entire series. Filming has already begun in Cardiff and the gang, well the ones who are still alive, are all there.

After enjoying a number of significantly better scripts in series two I must admit I'm quite looking forward to Children Of Earth, in which the remaining team are set to do battle with "the fiercest force they have encountered." Naturally, the future of the entire human race is at stake. It really wouldn't be worth getting out of bed for anything less, would it?

The short series will run over five consecutive nights on BBC One.

Rumours that Micky and Martha may be joining the Torchwood crew on a permanent basis, which started up after the Doctor Who series finale this year, now seem to have been scotched, following Freema Agyeman's unexpected decision to sign up with ITV for a UK version of Law & Order. A move which caused a great deal of kerfuffle and script editing in the Torchwood offices, allegedly.

So instead the regular team of Captain Jack (John Barrowman), Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles) and Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd), along with sidekicks Rhys Williams (Kai Owen), and PC Andy (Tom Price) will be joined by some special guests.

We'll meet civil-servant-with-a-secret Mr Frobisher (Peter Capaldi), survivor Clem (Paul Copely) and just to mix things up a bit and make sure the Torchwood team don't have everything their own way (in case fighting the toughest aliens they've ever met isn't enough to keep them occupied) there's also an undercover government agent - Johnson (Liz May Brice) - who is trying to expose Torchwood.

Expose them? Why? What have they done? And what good will exposing them do? If you find out before we do, let us know.

An unknown actor named Matt Smith has been unveiled as the new Doctor Who. He will succeed David Tennant who is leaving the role after three successful seasons as the Time Lord. The actor is best known for appearing alongside Billie Piper in The Ruby in The Smoke. Last night Smith, who will be the youngest actor to play the role so far, said he was 'flabbergasted' at winning the role. "It's exciting, nerve-wracking," he said. We have a video interview done by BBC with Matt that you can view by clicking link below.

The man who successfully revived one of the oldest and longest running Sci-Fi series Russell T Davies said: "When I heard who they cast as the eleventh Doctor my initial reaction was, I was just so jealous that they would get to work with him.

Executive producer Stephen Moffatt said: "He's younger than any Doctor before and younger than any Doctor whose been suggested in the Press."

Fellow executive producer Piers Wenger said: "He has the look of someone who lives before. Those are the sort of qualities that got him the part and which make him the doctor."

Well we all had been wondering when we would have a crossover from Smallville to Heroes, well it;s here folks, the struggling NBC drama "Heroes" has tapped John Glover (Lex Luthor's dad on "Smallville") to play Sylar's father.

"When Sylar meets his father, he's going to see a path ahead of him that he doesn't want to take," reveals an insider. "He has a lot more in common with his father than he realized."

Producer Bryan Fuller, who will be returning to the show explained that "Heroes" will now once again be character-driven. "It's not necessarily a reboot as much as it is going back to the basic spirit of the show and pulling people back in," he explained. "We're also going to tell fewer stories per episode. We're going to limit it to three or four with one big one that you can wrap the stories around. We're altering the structure of the show so that there's a very clear A story that takes up a larger percentage of the show so that that story gets traction."

He also talked about what we can expect from the upcoming episodes. Fuller said: "People will die. And some will return. Matt's wife [Janice] comes back. We'll find out what happens when you have a superbaby."

But even with this news at this point I'm not sure the show can be salvaged and I don't think any star can help get the ratings back, the fan base for the show has just lost all interest and are just tired of all the none followed through promises for the last two seasons. But we are glad to see Glover back in action and hopefully this time the son won't kill him off.

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