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 Aside his theatrical career , Barrowman has appeared in various films including the musical biopic De @-@ Lovely ( 2004 ) and musical comedy The Producers ( 2005 ) . Before venturing into British television , he featured in the American television dramas Titans and Central Park West but he is better known for his acting and presenting work for the BBC that includes his work for CBBC in its earlier years , his self @-@ produced entertainment programme Tonight 's the Night , and his BAFTA Cymru @-@ nominated role of Captain Jack Harkness in the science fiction series Doctor Who and Torchwood . Barrowman has also had a number of guest roles in television programmes both in the US and the UK . He appeared as a contestant on the first series of celebrity ice skating show Dancing on Ice while his theatrical background allowed him to become a judge on Andrew Lloyd Webber 's musical talent shows How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria ? , Any Dream Will Do and I 'd Do Anything . In 2006 , he was voted Stonewall 's Entertainer of the Year . Starting in 2013 , he hosts the BBC One quiz show Pressure Pad . Barrowman now stars in the CW 's Arrow as Malcolm Merlyn , the show 's version of the DC villain Merlyn and one of the series ' main antagonists . 

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 On 16 March 2002 , he hosted Saturday Night Live . In 2003 , McKellen made a guest appearance as himself on the American cartoon show The Simpsons , in a special British @-@ themed episode entitled " The Regina Monologues " , along with the then UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and author J. K. Rowling . In April and May 2005 , he played the role of Mel Hutchwright in Granada Television 's long running soap opera , Coronation Street , fulfilling a lifelong ambition . He narrated Richard Bell 's film Eighteen , as a grandfather who leaves his World War II memoirs on audio @-@ cassette for his teenage grandson . 

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 Daniel has also played a number of real @-@ life characters , such as German State Secretary Dr. Josef Bühler in Conspiracy , a 2001 dramatisation of the Wannsee Conference at which the Final Solution was endorsed . He also played the English author and journalist Ian Fleming , creator of James Bond , in Ian Fleming : Bondmaker ( 2005 ) , as well as Sir Francis Walsingham in The Virgin Queen ( 2005 ) and English writer Saki in Who Killed Mrs De Ropp ? ( 2007 ) . In addition , he has made guest appearances in a number of British TV drama series , including Soldier Soldier ( 1992 ) , A Touch of Frost ( 1992 ) , Outside Edge ( 1994 ) , and Spooks ( 2005 ) . 

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 Barrowman is best known in the UK for his role in the BBC science fiction drama Doctor Who . When the series was revived in 2005 , Barrowman came on board as recurring guest character Captain Jack Harkness , an omnisexual time traveller from the 51st century . His first appearance as Harkness was in the two @-@ part story " The Empty Child " / " The Doctor Dances " . He went on to appear in the next three episodes , " Boom Town " , " Bad Wolf " and " The Parting of the Ways " . Jack became so popular , he was given his own show – Torchwood , a Doctor Who spin @-@ off series featuring a team of alien hunters based in modern @-@ day Cardiff , which premiered in 2006 . American film and television critic Ken Tucker describes Barrowman 's role on Torchwood as " dashing " , " utterly fabulous " , " celestially promiscuous " , and " like Tom Cruise with suspenders , but minus the Scientology " . In the show , Jack " tracks down — and occasionally beds — ETs with the help of his quartet of bedazzled groupies — slash — Experts in Their Fields : One 's a doctor , one 's a cop , one 's a scientist , and one ... makes coffee and late nights piping hot . It 's like the Justice League of Extended @-@ Pinkie Nerds . " 

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 In October 2005 , BBC Three Controller Stuart Murphy invited Davies to create a post @-@ watershed Doctor Who spin @-@ off in the wake of the parent series ' popularity . Torchwood — named after an anagrammatic title ruse used to prevent leaks of Doctor Who 's first series — incorporated elements from an abandoned Davies project titled Excalibur and featured the pansexual 51st century time @-@ traveler Jack Harkness ( John Barrowman ) and a team of alien hunters in Cardiff . The show began production in April 2006 and was marketed through foreshadowing in the main story arc of Doctor Who 's second series , which portrayed Torchwood as a covert quasi @-@ governmental organisation that monitors , exploits , and suppresses the existence of extraterrestrial life and technology . Upon its transmission , Torchwood was one of BBC Three 's most popular shows ; however , it received criticism for " adolescent " use of sexual and violent themes . This led the production team to alter the format to be subtler in its portrayal of adult themes . 
