Torchwood: Children of Earth Torchwood: Children of Earth Children of Earth is the banner title of the third series of the British television science fiction programme "Torchwood", which broadcast for five episodes on BBC One from 6 to 10 July 2009. The series had new producer Peter Bennett and was directed by Euros Lyn, who had considerable experience on the revived "Doctor Who". "Torchwood" is a series about an organization known as Torchwood which defends the Earth against alien threats. The plot of "Children of Earth" deals with aliens demanding the Earth's children, and a related earlier conspiracy; as such, Torchwood is pitted against
Torchwood to the portrayal of same-sex relationships in "Torchwood". Maria Boyd of the University of Texas at Austin published her paper at a conference, "Gay Sex and Aliens! How the Press frames Russell T Davies' "Torchwood"." She argues through "a discourse analysis of 109 reviews of the Series 1 and Series 2 premiere episodes" how "TV critics are more concerned with the depictions of bisexuality among the principal characters on "Torchwood"." Furthermore, she argues that the show's reviews "highlight the same-sex interactions depicted on the show utilising sensationalist, assimilationist, or condemnatory language" and that the "hegemonic, heterosexist language used by TV