Comment: Portraying Wales in television drama

This comment piece offers a brief report on our current research with BBC Audience Council Wales. Although considering a range of portrayals of Wales on TV, the project uses Doctor Who and Torchwood as a case study to investigate these issues. Given the ongoing debate over the status of both English and Welsh-language broadcasting in Wales, the movement of more dramatic production from London to the regions, and arguments over whether BBC Wales’ recent successes with shows such as Doctor Who and Torchwood are positive for the country’s position as a producer of quality television programming, issues of portrayal look set to remain on the agenda.