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Best Actress: Eve Myles (Torchwood)
Best TV Episode: “Children of Earth” (Torchwood)
SFX Cult Hero: Gareth David Lloyd

THE all-Welsh movie A Bit of Tom Jones? is going Stateside in an ongoing battle with the Hollywood blockbusters.

The movie, made entirely on location in Tredegar, South Wales, got the red carpet treatment at a West End premiere this week.

But now the people behind the low-budget flick are planning an assault on America.

The near-the-knuckle dark comedy was made for just £100,000 and features Good Arrows star Jonathan Owen, Eve Myles from Torchwood, and Margaret John, foul-mouthed pensioner Doris in Gavin and Stacey.

It quickly outsold big budget rivals like Michael Jackson’s This is It and the sci-fi drama The Fourth Kind when it was first shown in Merthyr Tydfil’s Vue multiplex before Christmas.

Staff even had to drag in extra beanbags to accommodate filmgoers.

Its makers claim it was even more popular than the Hollywood blockbusters 2012, Harry Brown starring Michael Caine and A Christmas Carol – despite their multi-million- pound special effects.

And its London premiere in Leicester Square on Monday night was packed out.

Jonathan Owen, whose character Henry Fielding attempts to sell the severed manhood of Tom Jones in the controversial movie, said: “The film is like a cross between Carry On and Monty Python.

“It has that surreal humour which people in the UK love and they love Python in the USA too.

“The movie has been running in London, Manchester, Bristol and Scotland this weekend and there is serious interest in America, so we’ll be heading over there in the next few weeks.

“And we are signing a brilliant distribution deal for the DVD as we speak.”

Even the stars of the film struggled to find a seat at its London premiere.

Actor John Henshaw, who played John Prescott in the ITV drama Confessions Of A Diary Secretary and who stars as a barman in the movie, was one of those left standing.

He said: “I’ve seen it so I would prefer to give someone who hasn’t seen it a seat and the chance to watch it.”

And the film’s writer and director, Peter Watkins-Hughes, was forced to call for volunteers to give up their seats.

Watkins-Hughes said: “Its success on Monday is a vindication of everybody who has supported it.

“The people of Tredegar have been extraordinary.”

Its London premiere attracted celebrities including Denise Welch, from Loose Women, and 1960s singer Geno Washington, who appears in it, and top chef Gary Rhodes.

Owen, who comes from Merthyr Tydfil, said: “I spoke to Gary Rhodes after and he loved it. We had a lot of family who’d seen it at least three times there, so they kindly gave up their seats so that people who hadn’t seen it before could see it.

“I thought the film party was brilliant. People didn’t want it to end.”

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I’ve finally gotten around to adding the final block of screencaptures from Children of Earth, which is from Day Four and Day Five. There is also a new layout at the gallery too!

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Television – Torchwood – Season Three – 3.04 “Day Four”
Television – Torchwood – Season Three – 3.05 “Day Five”

A low-budget comedy farce about an attempt to sell a senstive part of Sir Tom Jones will be shown on Leicester Square in London’s West End this month.

After success in Welsh cinemas, A Bit Of Tom Jones (made for just £100,000) will be shown in the capital’s most prestigious cinematic location on 25 January.

A Bit Of Tom Jones stars Torchwood actors Eve Myles and Jonny Owen. Owen told The London Evening Standard, “Never in our wildest dreams did we think we would end up in Leicester Square”.

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The Ystradgynlais actress gave birth to 6lb 1oz Matilda at Cardiff’s University Hospital of Wales last month and said she and partner Brad Freegard are “completely over the moon.”

Eve, 31, said: “She is absolutely beautiful and we are obviously totally delighted. She is just the loveliest thing ever.

“Her full name is Matilda Myles Freegard. We’ve wanted a baby for a long time and have had names ready for a boy and a girl for the last three years. I just think it’s very pretty and it really suits her.

“She has beautiful deep blue eyes like her daddy and the longest fingers I’ve ever seen. And she has my huge lips. I was looking at her gums and trying to work out whether there is going to be a gap in her teeth, like mine. I hope so.

“We are just completely in love with her. She is totally, totally amazing.”

And Eve said Matilda, who was born on November 10, has already received goodies and well-wishes from Torchwood fans all over the world, as far as Australia.

Eve said: “I can’t believe how kind people have been. It’s unbelievable. We’ve had gifts for the baby and for me, it’s been so emotional. Our dining room is packed with baby-related things, and scripts that have been sent over the last few weeks that I just haven’t got round to reading.

“To be honest, I’m in no rush to think about work. I’m just enjoying her so much. Brad has been amazing. He’s very hands-on. He took the two weeks before her birth off so that he could be around when she arrived and she was almost on cue.

“It was a very long labour and I’m not going to pretend it was easy because it certainly wasn’t. But it was a natural birth and she was definitely worth it.

“The midwives at UHW were absolutely brilliant, I can’t fault them. Brad and I popped in with the baby to say thank you and took them lots of tea, coffee and treats because they were just so brilliant.”

And Matilda, who has yet to meet her mum’s co-star John Barrowman, is also a hit with the couple’s dog Honey.

Eve said: “We’ve obviously been really careful about letting Honey too close to Matilda but every day she will come over, look into the Moses basket, wag her tail and walk off. She’s always been really placid anyway but we’ve been for lovely walks and she seems very happy with the new arrival.”

Eve, who has been with Brad for almost a decade, said she is relishing the life-changing demands of motherhood and will not worry about work for a while.

She said: “I’m just enjoying every minute, even between 10.30pm and 1.30am when she decides to get the screaming ab dabs. Matilda’s already been to Pontcanna Fields and Dyffryn Gardens but, most importantly, she’s also had her first trip to Marks and Spencer. It’s amazing, motherhood is just great.”

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Anyway, just wanted to say a belated congratulations to Eve Myles and her partner Bradley for their new little bundle of girly joy, Matilda Myles Freegard. We hope the best for you and are super excited! You’ll be great parents

Vote for Doctor Who in the Best TV Show category, for Planet of the Dead or The Next Doctor in the Best TV Episode section – or even Torchwood: Children of Earth Day 5.

Dervla Kirwan (Miss Hartigan in The Next Doctor) and Torchwood’s Eve Myles are nominated for your votes in the Best Actress category (although I went for Ashes to Ashes’ Keeley Hawes) while David Tennant and Children of Earth’s Peter Capaldi are nominated in the Best Actor category.

The Journal of Impossible Things, the Radio Controlled Supreme Dalek and the Doctor Who Classic Series Action Figures are available to be voted on in the Best Collectable, Toy or Boardgame section, while Eve Myles is up for Sexiest Female and there’s a threeway between Tennant, Barrowman and David-Lloyd for Sexiest Male.

Planet of the Dead’s killer flying stingray CGI monsters are nominated for Best Special Effect, The Next Doctor’s Miss Hartigan and The 456 from Torchwood: Children of Earth might be your selection for Best Monster or Villain, while Captain Jack’s sacrifice in Torchwood is nominated among the best plot twists as well as best deaths along with Ianto Jones sad exit.

Finally, you can vote for the Sonic Screwdriver as the best piece of sci fi kit or just plump for PC Andy in Torchwood: Children of Earth for the best fight scene.

With the winners of the SFX Awards set for announcement at the SFX Weekender in February, you need to get your votes in ASAP!

Vote now at sfx.co.uk/vote!

The programme, starring Trevor Eve and Torchwood’s Eve Myles, pulled in a decent 4.67m (19.8%) between 8.30pm and 10pm. The half-hour Would I Lie To You? followed, bringing in 3.41m (17.1%).

BBC Two’s University Challenge interested 2.91m (12.6%) at 8pm. The audience then dropped to 1.8m (6.7%) during the 8.30pm screening of Caribbean Food Made Easy, then the third and final part of Future Of Food grabbed 1.4m (6%) during the 9pm hour.

Over on ITV1, the half-hour You’ve Been Framed! managed 3.24m (14%) at 8pm, and the second part of Peter Bowker’s dramatisation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights averaged 3.99m (17.9%) between 9pm and 10.30pm, just beating last night’s opener.

The final part of Channel 4’s On Tour With The Queen bowed out to 870k (3.7%) during the 9pm hour, then 1.91m (11.1%) tuned in for the Big Brother highlights show at 10pm. Earlier on the channel, Doctor Dolittle averaged 1.05m (4.5%) between 7.30pm and 9pm.

The Gadget Show logged 1.2m (5.1%) for Five during the 8pm hour, then new series Warship opened to 1.48m (6.3%) at 9pm.

Overall, ITV1 came top during primetime with an average share of 22.8% to BBC One’s 20.7%. BBC Two was third with 6.8%, followed by Channel 4 with 5.6% (+1: 0.6%) and Five’s 4.6%.

Elsewhere, More4’s screening of the season seven opener of Without A Trace grabbed 405k (1.9%), beating One Tree Hill’s 299k (1.4%) for E4.

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But finally Torchwood fans and WHOvians alike can breath a sigh of relief – as it seems that Torchwood Season 4 may finally be confirmed! Russell T. Davies broke the news exclusively to Torchwood Magazine, saying:

“I could write you scene one of series four right now. I know exactly how to pick it up. I’ve got a shape in mind, and I’ve got stories. I know where you’d find Gwen and Rhys, and their baby, and Jack, and I know how you’d go forward with a new form of Torchwood.”

While Davies is still uncertain what shape the series will take – another mini series or a full on 13-episode season, he seems very confident indeed that he knows which direction Torchwood will take. It’s his final sentence from that quote that stands out – “A new form of Torchwood,” I’d say we’re looking at a brand new team!

Of course it’d be difficult to carry on without a new team, the deaths of Owen and Tosh in season 2, and the controversial death of Ianto in Children of Earth has left the Torchwood agents a little thin on the ground!

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