Whats Going on with Torchwood?

[Tom]

Seems that Torchwood is being almost as elusive with a premiere date than the Doctor Who Specials. So i wonder if there is updated info on:I

- When is the UK premiere date??????

Season 3 will only be 5 one hour episodes that run for 5 consecutive nights

- Only 5 episodes?? (more like 6 1/2 you add up the extra 15 minutes on each one) Why a limited season? especially at the same time Dr. Who is doing that.

- Will the 5 consecutive nights idea hurt the show?? Is this a good Idea?

- I heard Martha ( Freema Agyeman ) will not be in this season due to her Law and Order gig, will she show up at all?

- Will Micky (Noel Clarke) be in Torchwood? will it be full time or limited?

- When is season 4 set to Air? Spring/Summer/fall 2010?

 

[captcalhoun]

Seems that Torchwood is being almost as elusive with a premiere date than the Doctor Who Specials. So i wonder if there is updated info on:I

- When is the UK premiere date??????

TV&Satellite Week's summer preview this week says July

Season 3 will only be 5 one hour episodes that run for 5 consecutive nights

- Only 5 episodes?? (more like 6 1/2 you add up the extra 15 minutes on each one) Why a limited season? especially at the same time Dr. Who is doing that.

budgetary reasons.

- Will the 5 consecutive nights idea hurt the show?? Is this a good Idea?

Don't know. It could be.

- I heard Martha ( Freema Agyeman ) will not be in this season due to her Law and Order gig, will she show up at all?

no.

- Will Micky (Noel Clarke) be in Torchwood? will it be full time or limited?

no

- When is season 4 set to Air? Spring/Summer/fall 2010?

no idea.

 

[Winterwind]

If there is a Series 4 I'm expecting a few changes.

 

[bismarck_1892]

Seems that Torchwood is being almost as elusive with a premiere date than the Doctor Who Specials. So i wonder if there is updated info on:I

- When is the UK premiere date??????

Season 3 will only be 5 one hour episodes that run for 5 consecutive nights

- Only 5 episodes?? (more like 6 1/2 you add up the extra 15 minutes on each one) Why a limited season? especially at the same time Dr. Who is doing that.

- Will the 5 consecutive nights idea hurt the show?? Is this a good Idea?

- I heard Martha ( Freema Agyeman ) will not be in this season due to her Law and Order gig, will she show up at all?

- Will Micky (Noel Clarke) be in Torchwood? will it be full time or limited?

- When is season 4 set to Air? Spring/Summer/fall 2010?

I can never get used to this strange English season schedules (not to mention the fact that BCC seems to ignore the US market - we still have not seen the last two specials). Maybe Dr. Who should be an American show. That way we will get the Dr. 24 episodes a season, and same for Torchwood. Although, at that rate both shows will go off the air in no time.

The slow production and scheduling is probably what keeps some of these shows in buisness.

 

[Newspaper Taxi]

I think that upping the episode count would be a bad idea...That sort of thing can eventually burn a creative team out, as Star Trek has shown us. 13 episodes and however many specials always leaves you wanting more, but also leaves you feeling like you have a full belly.

 

[The]

I can never get used to this strange English season schedules (not to mention the fact that BCC seems to ignore the US market - we still have not seen the last two specials).

Is that the BBC, or the American market that buys it to show? I would think it's more SciFi and BBCAmerica's schedule. Also, the BBC could be holding them back until they are all done for reason.

Maybe Dr. Who should be an American show. That way we will get the Dr. 24 episodes a season, and same for Torchwood.

Dude, what shows are you watching? Sure, we might get sixteen episodes of LOST, or twenty-five episodes of HEROES. But, we also get three-month gaps between some seasons...repeat nights...constant recap clip shows. I don't see how an American schedule would be in any way superior...

 

[bismarck_1892]

I can never get used to this strange English season schedules (not to mention the fact that BCC seems to ignore the US market - we still have not seen the last two specials).

Is that the BBC, or the American market that buys it to show? I would think it's more SciFi and BBCAmerica's schedule. Also, the BBC could be holding them back until they are all done for reason.

Maybe Dr. Who should be an American show. That way we will get the Dr. 24 episodes a season, and same for Torchwood.

Dude, what shows are you watching? Sure, we might get sixteen episodes of LOST, or twenty-five episodes of HEROES. But, we also get three-month gaps between some seasons...repeat nights...constant recap clip shows. I don't see how an American schedule would be in any way superior...

It would be superior because we would not have a one year break between seasons, and we would get more shows.

Also, BBC America has not shown any of the new specials. I don't know what "reason" they would have for it, and don't really care.

 

[The]

I can never get used to this strange English season schedules (not to mention the fact that BCC seems to ignore the US market - we still have not seen the last two specials).

Is that the BBC, or the American market that buys it to show? I would think it's more SciFi and BBCAmerica's schedule. Also, the BBC could be holding them back until they are all done for reason.

Maybe Dr. Who should be an American show. That way we will get the Dr. 24 episodes a season, and same for Torchwood.

Dude, what shows are you watching? Sure, we might get sixteen episodes of LOST, or twenty-five episodes of HEROES. But, we also get three-month gaps between some seasons...repeat nights...constant recap clip shows. I don't see how an American schedule would be in any way superior...

It would be superior because we would not have a one year break between seasons, and we would get more shows.

Like I said, we would get about sixteen episodes...max...before a couple-month-long hiatus would come up between sweeps seasons....no-warning repeat nights, where an old episode is placed in the middle of a current season...and/or more product placement than you can shake a stick at. Can you imagine the shit of having commercial breaks during Doctor Who? How lame is it already on SciF and BBCA? It would be twenty-times worse on a primetime network. I still fail to see the "superiority"...

 

[Tom]

Doctor Who should NEVER be an American show, we fuck up our shows to much over here in the states. Besides we let Fox take a stab at it in 1996 and looked how that turned out!

 

[Starkers]

I can never get used to this strange English season schedules (not to mention the fact that BCC seems to ignore the US market - we still have not seen the last two specials).

Is that the BBC, or the American market that buys it to show? I would think it's more SciFi and BBCAmerica's schedule. Also, the BBC could be holding them back until they are all done for reason.

Maybe Dr. Who should be an American show. That way we will get the Dr. 24 episodes a season, and same for Torchwood.

Dude, what shows are you watching? Sure, we might get sixteen episodes of LOST, or twenty-five episodes of HEROES. But, we also get three-month gaps between some seasons...repeat nights...constant recap clip shows. I don't see how an American schedule would be in any way superior...

It would be superior because we would not have a one year break between seasons, and we would get more shows.

Also, BBC America has not shown any of the new specials. I don't know what "reason" they would have for it, and don't really care.

Why is more better? Seriously it strikes me that the more episodes you have the more creativity gets stretched, and frankly I'm amazed some US shows run as long as they do with the amount of eps they have to produce...I guess having an army of writers helps (which its doubtful the BBC could afford) but still how many bland filler episodes are there in the typical US season of 20+ shows?

Nah 13 works perfectly for me, and dovetails nicely in my head with things like Blakes 7 from my youth. At the end of the day the show isn't made for America, it's made for the UK and- no offence- I hope that never changes!

 

[Tomalak]

Doctor Who was on all year round when it started. Maybe they should go back to 25 minute episodes and six part stories? After all, the glory days of The Space Museum, The Dominators and The Krotons was such a big hit in the States.

Doctor Who works fine as it is. The BBC doesn't have the resources to make more, and the fact that there are usually only two main characters who appear in almost every scene means a 26 episode schedule would be almost impossible. You'd need to regenerate the Doctor twice a year.

 

[Jim Steele]

Whats Going on with Torchwood?

A chainwank?

 

[roguephoenix]

I don't see how an American schedule would be in any way superior...

twice as many episodes of a show i like = awesome

 

[Starkers]

I don't see how an American schedule would be in any way superior...

twice as many episodes of a show i like = awesome

Double the quantity, halve the quality...

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Whats Going on with Torchwood?

A chainwank?

Another Gamewank spinoff?

 

[Jim Steele]

"Gamewank spin off, recorded in B&Q"

 

[Professor Zoom]

I don't see how an American schedule would be in any way superior...

twice as many episodes of a show i like = awesome

Double the quantity, halve the quality...

QFT.

I would MUCH rather have fewer better episodes than more with the huge potential of a drop in quality.

It doesn't bother me one bit that I might have to wait 9 months before a new episode airs, it certainly builds excitement.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

twice as many episodes of a show i like = awesome

Double the quantity, halve the quality...

QFT.

I would MUCH rather have fewer better episodes than more with the huge potential of a drop in quality.

It doesn't bother me one bit that I might have to wait 9 months before a new episode airs, it certainly builds excitement.

Same here, I'd rather have the amount of episodes it takes to tell the story well, than have 20 episodes with 10 filler episodes.

 

[Stevil2001]

I don't see how an American schedule would be in any way superior...

twice as many episodes of a show i like = awesome

I used to think this too, and then I saw Season 2 of Battlestar Galactica.

 

[bismarck_1892]

I don't see how an American schedule would be in any way superior...

twice as many episodes of a show i like = awesome

Double the quantity, halve the quality...

Lets not get carried away with the quality argument. There is much needed improvement for both shows. And, there are many US shows that manage to keep up great energy and good quality through out the year. The fact that Dr. Who is on the air for so long has much to do with its absent schedule, as any other factor. In short, the absence of these shows has more to do with an absence of funding on the part of BBC then with any other consideration.