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Captain Jack is back - and is joined in the first episode by Captain John, played by Buffy's James Marsters.
Torchwood season 2 begins on BBC2 in mid-January - and in another development, as well as Marsters's appearance, there'll be two versions of it. Right from the start of the show, it's been positioned as the adult version of Doctor Who and it aired on BBC3 with as much swearing as it could: Russell T Davies says he purposely added swearing to the first-ever scene so that it was clear this was not Doctor Who.
Then, it was often said that the two shows would be kept separate so that children wouldn't want to watch Torchwood. But since then we've seen nods to Who in Torchwood, we've seen Captain Jack return to the Tardis, and this new season will see Doctor Who's Freema Agyeman guest-starring.
Plus, take a walk by Cardiff's beautiful Millennium Centre and you cannot fail to hear young voices explaining to weary parents that there's a top-secret base underneath the fountain.
So now, after BBC2 premieres each new episode of Torchwood, there will be a repeat especially edited for children, airing before the watershed.
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