3.00pm: The panel begins with an extended recap of Children Of Earth, which was broadcast on BBC America in the US over the last week.

3.04pm: The panellists come out: exec producer Julie Gardner, director Euros Lyn, creator Russell T Davies and John 'Tarrrrrchwood' Barrowman.

3.05pm: Chants of "we want Ianto!" from the crowd!

3.06pm: JG on idea: "Practically, the show was moving on to BBC One in the UK. Part of the discussion about that move was how to make it feel like a really big event. Then Russell started to think about stories." RTD: "We had to make it bigger, stronger and had to make it work. I suppose the intensity came up with that. If it hadn't worked, that would have been the end of Torchwood."

3.08pm: JB on US reponse to TW: "First off the response in the UK has been absolutely brilliant. But we've found a second home in the US on BBC America, and to be able to launch BBC America HD the way we have, and have the ratings we have, we've done amazingly well. The American audiences have taken to us like a duck to water. We always wanted it to happen but didn't expect it to in the way it did. Thankyou thankyou thankyou!"

3.10pm: Euros: "When you're making something of that scale on our budget, it's a huge ask. We had great support from our crew and execs." JB: "You were pretty damn good yourself. Euros has an amazing track record with Doctor Who. You did an amazing job. And he's also very cute, isn't he?"

3.12pm: JB says he's trying to avoid double-entendres then advises the under 18s to "watch and learn" as he proceeds to flirt with Euros.

3.14pm: RTD on decision not to show The 456 in full: "That was a decision right away in the script. There are millions of films and TV programmes with these creatures in, so I thought let's go the other way. Let's pretend it's like the 1960s and you can't afford to build something! It's just more scary." JB: "One of the most frightening bits was that you didn't see it but then you saw the child hanging in the cage."

3.15pm: Praise for Lois Habeba from the moderator. RTD is smirking. More of her in future? "Too soon to say really. Not necessarily. I hate the thought of Lois taking Tosh's place, so I'm quite loathed to have people literally replacing people who've gone. But if I get the chance to work with Cush again, I would jump at the chance."

3.17pm: JB on CJ's history with The 456: "We go back to the darker side of Jack and the secrets that Jack has, the pressures, drama and the trauma he's carrying on his shoulders. There was a concern that the audience wouldn't like him any more. He makes tough decisions in these five episodes but it's decisions to save humanity. He will do anything in his power to save the situation or humanity. So when I read all of the stuff he had to do, I had to look at it from the point of view of 'I'm Jack Harkness and I'm right'."

3.19pm: The subject of Ianto comes up. Much boos. JB: "Remember it's the excitement.. we always said in the beginning, people die young in Torchwood. It's very sad but life has to go on. He was hot."

3.20pm: JG: "For me it was a no-brainer that Ianto died at the end of episode four. It was right for the story because CJ had to suffer. He was about to go to a dark place so to take him to that place he had to suffer. The man that he loves was the cost of making CJ a hero."

3.22pm: Question time from the audience. Girl asks a boring question about their opinions on Comic-Con, because she "couldn't think of another question to ask". Jog on, love.

3.23pm: She also asks JB for a hug. Back off, little madam.

3.25pm: JB on fan reaction to COE: "I watched it on TV like everybody else. And as soon as the episodes were over, we go on to Twitter. The night that Ianto died, on Twitter Ianto beat out Michael Jackson! The reactions that the fans have are incredible."

3.26pm: RTD says he is "still reeling" from the success of COE and says no-one at the BBC saw it coming.

3.27pm: RTD asked about how he wrote a series that would appeal to US and UK. "To be honest, I don't at all. I don't sit and think about an audience at all, I just sit and think about what makes me happy. I think you're here because you like the Britishness of it."

3.28pm: Guy from audience asks a good question about the differences in CJ between TW and Who. JB: "I see Jack in DW as being part of a team where he's not the leader. He's there to assist. In that case The Doctor calls the shots and Jack ends up firing them. As an actor, I look at it as Jack chilling out a bit, whereas in TW he's the leader of the team, he makes the decisions and gets challenged sometimes. Gwen's a strong character. That's the difference."

3.30pm: RTD: "We're all different in different circumstances. So good characters do just that, they just shift depending on their role."

3.33pm: Girl claims that RTD has "hurt" a lot of internet fans and accuses him of being "out of line" with killing Ianto. "I'm immensely sorry if people are sad, but I'm not changing my mind. I've got to be blunt about this, there have been campaigns to send packets of coffee to BBC Wales in protest. There have been nine packets sent. I'm not taking the mickey, but that's a very small number."

3.35pm: JB: "They've done something fun to raise money for Children In Need and have raised $2,700 in a fun way to mourn Ianto. That's the kind of thing that's really appreciated." JG: "We want people to be engaged, discuss and not always agree with us. At the end of the day, I make drama to support each author's vision. It's not a democracy. Whether people like it or not, it's storytelling."

3.36pm: A question is asked that begins "speaking as a bisexual woman". JB on being a role model: "I didn't get into the industry to be that, but it's happened. There comes a point where you have to look at yourself and ask if you can make a difference. But it's people like Julie and Russell that put this type of character on television. He represents who we are."

3.38pm: JB: "Let's have more characters on television. And let's have more John Barrowman on television. I think I'd shake up a US network, don't you?"

3.39pm: JB on musical episode of Torchwood: "No. It doesn't lend itself to that, as much as my musical side would love that. I get to do that in film, on stage, so it probably won't happen." RTD: "When Buffy The Vampire Slayer did that, you could not top that. You couldn't even try. It was perfect."

3.40pm: JB talks about changing the lyrics to 'The Wizard And I' to 'The Doctor And I' and doing it as a track on his next album.

3.41pm: More backlash over Ianto. How did JB feel about the death scene? "When we played that scene [of him dying] it was very sad, but again, we had come to terms with it. It was hard to look in his eyes and see death happen, even though you're pretending."

3.43pm: JB recalls winding Eve Myles up while filming the bodybag scene. He says in one take he hid behind the bodybag with a handlebar moustache painted on and when she unzipped the bag, he began singing 'Let Me Entertain You'.

3.45pm: Some unintelligible question about Frobisher. RTD: "He's just an ordinary man who's been in that suit for 40 years. Suddenly everything starts revolving around him. He's not a villain, just an ordinary man with big problems."

3.46pm: Final question, it's about La Cage aux Folles. JB advises the audience to fly over to see him. "If I say so myself, I look pretty damn fine in a dress."

3.48pm: And on that note, panel over! Thanks for joining us.