US version Of Torchword in development!
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Isn't Fox one of the more conservative of American networks? Really having trouble picturing a Fox show with a bisexual lead.
And before anyone responds to me, understand this post is meant as a slam against Fox, not bisexuals.
The Fox News Channel is a 24-hour cable news channel with a very strong conservative slant and pundits who tend to advocate conservatism, yes.
However, the Fox Network is a different entity; it's a national broadcast network that's well-known for sexualized content.
The two share the "Fox" name because both are owned by NewsCorp, which itself owns the movie studio called 20th Century Fox. Both got the "Fox" name because of their corporate association with 20th Century Fox, though, again, they're all separate companies under the NewsCorp umbrella.
Is that true on the major networks?
Torchwood has aired here, granted only on BBC America (also HDNET??), which while a niche network has been its most successful series to date. Would that fly as a series on one of the majors? I'm skeptical but who knows?
Depends. Do you count shows canceled after 13?
That's true for shows like Life and especially LOST, but I don't think that was the case for Eureka. I'm pretty sure an earlier season was simply shorter.
Great, so we get to hear more people using American accidents with British pronunciations. And of course everyone will be from the midwest where we have no accent (save Minnesoota). Would be nice to see a character from philly, or Boston or Louisiana (minus voice training) for a change.
Personally, I don't think this will work. In British shows, there's a suspension of belief where the fantastical can exist without a need for explanations. We, however, require that, even in sci-fi, we know how everything works. They'd spend the first three episodes explaining the tardis.
Development studios are semi-independant wings. Their parent networks are given the first shot at a program, but if they say no, they have the right to shop it other networks. That's why you see cbs produced shows on fox, ABC produced shows on NBC, and so on and so forth.
There is no such thing as having no accent. Everyone who speaks a language has an accent, because the word "accent" refers to any emphasis and pronunciation.
Specifically, people from the American Midwest have -- wait for it -- an American Midwestern accent.
I wrote a paper on dialectology once, and that includes accents. I was gonna say the exact same thing.
So.... honestly, what the hell is the point of making an American facsimile of a show with British people who already starred in the original British show? Huh?
That is not in any way better.
So.... honestly, what the hell is the point of making an American facsimile of a show with British people who already starred in the original British show? Huh?
That is not in any way better.
On first reading of that article, I got the sense that the Torchwood characters we've seen thus far might be in the pilot and be recurring characters, not be the regular cast. On second reading, I realize it said, "... [get] John Barrowman to star," but I still read that as not "be the lead" as much as be a guest star in the pilot to get things rolling, ala McCoy in TNG, Picard in DS9, etc.
I'm not envisioning an American reboot either. This would make sense with an American/International-ish cast based out of America, maybe even with the full knowledge and cooperation of the US Government. Afterall, if a Lieutenant General in the US Army can usurp the UK Government on behalf of the President, anything can happen with Torchwood in the US!
Captain Jack and/or Gwen will get 'er going, and we might see him during Sweeps. Beyond that, it will be a new gang.
And, hopefully, there will be a UK Season 4. Then we get multiple Torchwoods.
I'm not envisioning an American reboot either. This would make sense with an American/International-ish cast based out of America, maybe even with the full knowledge and cooperation of the US Government. Afterall, if a Lieutenant General in the US Army can usurp the UK Government on behalf of the President, anything can happen with Torchwood in the US!
Captain Jack and/or Gwen will get 'er going, and we might see him during Sweeps. Beyond that, it will be a new gang.
And, hopefully, there will be a UK Season 4. Then we get multiple Torchwoods.
If it's a remake, I'm out. But if it's a new series focusing on an additional branch of Torchwood in the U.S., I'm very interested.
Just why does everyone keep suggesting an American branch of Torchwood? Torchwood's mandate is to defend Britain? How does an American division factor into that.
Unless, you're going to bring the mysterious Torchwood 4 into this. Torchwood 4 was the branch Jack mentioned in the pilot as having "disappeared" but was "expected to return someday." I suppose it's possible that Torchwood 4, while origianlly being somewhere in the UK could somehow end up in America when it returns.
Unless, you're going to bring the mysterious Torchwood 4 into this. Torchwood 4 was the branch Jack mentioned in the pilot as having "disappeared" but was "expected to return someday." I suppose it's possible that Torchwood 4, while origianlly being somewhere in the UK could somehow end up in America when it returns.
That would be okay. It also would not classify as remake, but as spinoff. I don't have a problem with that.
Why does the American Torchwood have to be contemporary? Have President Garfield establish the US version in 1881 in response to the British creating their Torchwood in 1879. Perhaps you could even figure in his assassination and make Chester Arthur a Slitheen. I used to love the Wild Wild West TV series (maybe some nostalgia there), I think we could do with a cowboys versus aliens series.
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The US Army and Air Force's mandates are to defend the United States.
Why then is there USAF and Army in Britain, Germany, etc.?
See the parallel?
Wild West West meets Torchwood is absolutely THE best idea for an American Torchwood.
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