Torchwood: Miracle Day premiere date

[Allyn Gibson]

I do wonder what will happen if Starz decide they want to do another series and the BBC don't?

Barrowman said late last year that Starz hoped for seven years out of Torchwood. And hasn't Davies already passed the baton to Jane Espensen to run future seasons?

If the BBC weren't interested in co-producing it any more and Starz wanted to continue, I suspect that Starz would produce it themselves and then sell it internationally a la Spartacus or Camelot.

 

[MacLeod]

I suspect that they would have to pay the Beeb a license fee, to produce the show and/or a cut down price for transmission rights in the UK. If the BBC did not contribute towards the cost of producing the show.

 

[timothy]

still not able to set for my dvr argh...

 

[Savage Jaw]

I do wonder what will happen if Starz decide they want to do another series and the BBC don't?

BBC still own the intellectual property to Torchwood, it is just that Starz licences the show in the United States. If BBC One passes on more Torchwood, but Starz wants more, then presumably BBC Worldwide and BBC Worldwide Productions as commercial operations would still make it, but it would be 100% funded by Starz and not shown on the BBC in the UK, which would mean that another UK broadcaster could pickup the UK rights to Torchwood from BBC Worldwide.

 

[MacLeod]

BBC worldwide is a subsidurary of BBC so I guess ht e BBC would get first pass on it.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

BBC worldwide is a subsidurary of BBC so I guess ht e BBC would get first pass on it.

Presumably like Primeval the deal would mean it ends up on one of the UKTV network of channels if the BBC weren't interested in funding it themselves.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Motion Comic has been announced starring Eliza Dushku!

http://news.drwho-online.co.uk/New-Torchwood-Web-of-Lies-Motion-Web-Comic-App-Announced.aspx

 

[Savage Jaw]

The UK could be in for an even longer wait than was thought. The BBC have released Network TV Programme Information for 9th-15th July 2011, the week after the Starz premiere, and Torchwood STILL does not feature. Now it may be added later, but it is a bit ominous.

 

[StCoop]

The UK could be in for an even longer wait than was thought. The BBC have released Network TV Programme Information for 9th-15th July 2011, the week after the Starz premiere, and Torchwood STILL does not feature. Now it may be added later, but it is a bit ominous.

Let's not forget that the BBC didn't want to make any more Torchwood in the first place. It was BBC Worldwide/Gardner & Davies who took it to Fox and then Starz.

I wouldn't be surprised if they end up sticking it on BBC2.

I'll be watching it on the 9th regardless.

 

[MacLeod]

Some might argue that BBC2 is a better home for it.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

And now we learn from Tom Spillsbury (editor of DWM) that the US and UK are getting different versions of the episodes. Here and here.

 

[StCoop]

And now we learn from Tom Spillsbury (editor of DWM) that the US and UK are getting different versions of the episodes. Here and here.

So basically if you want more sex and violence but less plot watch the US version?

(I'm guessing nobady at the BBC watched Spartacus before doing the deal...)

 

[MacLeod]

It might be along the lines of

BBC doesn't have an issue with sex but with the violence
Starz doesn't have an issue with the violence but with the sex.

 

[StCoop]

Starz doesn't have an issue with the violence but with the sex.

Starz loves sex* and violence. Spartacus is filled with both to levels I never thought I'd see in a TV series.



*Straight, gay, lesbian, rape, threesomes, orgys; everything short of bestiality basically.

 

[wamdue]

well this is turning into an "epic fail" for the BBC.

 

[MacLeod]

Welll there is of course this :-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/

 

[Allyn Gibson]

It might be along the lines of

BBC doesn't have an issue with sex but with the violence
Starz doesn't have an issue with the violence but with the sex.

People who have seen the Starz 3-episode review screener have said that there's graphic male/male and male/female sex in the second episode. And, as StCoop points out, Starz made Spartacus; they have no issue with sex or violence.

 

[StCoop]

I'm hoping that there's a complete version of every episode from which the two different cuts are being produced, which would leave open the possibility of a full release for the Box Set.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I have to admit, I've been wondering that today -- Which version is going on the DVDs? Will it be the UK version? The US version? An uncensored/unedited mash-up of the two? My fear is that it will be the UK version (since they clamped down a few years ago on variant regional editions) when the ideal will be the unedited version.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I have to admit, I've been wondering that today -- Which version is going on the DVDs? Will it be the UK version? The US version? An uncensored/unedited mash-up of the two? My fear is that it will be the UK version (since they clamped down a few years ago on variant regional editions) when the ideal will be the unedited version.

I don't think Starz is going to be playing second fiddle with this series. I'm sure at a minimum the US versions would be made available.