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Life Oh what the heck -- there's no point doing something if you're not going to write about it afterwards (well there are some things obviously). Last night I attended a special preview of Torchwood, the new spin-off from Doctor Who that I may have mentioned once or twice. Because I don't want to spoiled it for the few people who care and are reading this, I'm going to save the overly excitable madascheese review I knocked out into the wee small hours last night until Monday when everyone else has been there, but all I will say is that it's brilliant. Really, truly brilliant. Life on Mars, first season of Spooks, Whedonesque brilliant. I can only echo Graham's comments in a post which is also one of the funniest things I've read today. Most of the crowd at were winners of a competition through the BBC7 website so I'm not sure how many were 'fans' or just the generally interested. What I can say is the reaction was great, with people laughing throughout and gasping in all the right places. Although I'm sure only a fan would say it was worth a round trip to Manchester from Liverpool (or Coventry in the case of my neighbour) for an hour's worth of entertainment. But sometimes, you just have to be there ...