Last night, I was finally able to grab a couple of hours to watch the first two on a DVD of the first four episodes of Torchwood. The nice public-relations person of BBC in America had handed it to me at San Diego, following my interviews with the folks who had just presided over a panel devoted to the show: a panel conducted while I was attending a business meeting in another room of the convention facilities.

I'll post material I gathered from those interviews, once I've had a chance to transcribe them. In the meantime, I've enjoyed the first two episodes of the show itself. Episode One, "Everything Changes," was broadcast in England the same day as Episode Two, "Day One": Oct. 22, 2006. In a strange twist that has to do with which channel is running what, David Tennant's second season on Doctor Who began in England on March 31, 2007, following Torchwood, but is now showing in America [on Sci-Fi] preceding Torchwood [on BBC America starting Sept. 9].

While Doctor Who is still viewed in the U.K. as being designed for all-ages viewing and there are countless links between the two series, there's clearly a determination that Torchwood is for an adult crowd, with "Everything Changes" being mostly in the DW mode (albeit with a bar scene that's for an older audience and blood spurting in a monster attack) but "Day One" involving an alien whose menacing methods are not for kids. More later, folks.