In the past two years I’ve become steeped in Doctor Who and its spinoffs. I’m engrossed and I’ve become a bigtime fanboy.
I watch all the shows, gander at the mags and read the novels. But … being across the pond I find I’m a bit behind the curve.
I’m weeks behind on the episodes coming out in England and know that I’m way out of the loop. The Doctor’s production team - arguably the most remarkably successful comeback team in TV history - is moving on. And that leaves Doctor Who’s future in questionable waters (quality-wise, so far as I’m concerned).
Sarah Jane is fun in it’s way, and I suspect that can continue for some time without disruption, assuming it’s successful over there.
But what about Torchwood? As Doctor Who for HBO, they don’t show it over here. There is no news about it. Are there plans for a third series?
I invite news and discussion about the aforementioned subjects.
There’s been no official confirmation on a new Torchwood series yet, but I believe the same Production team will remain, primarily Julie Gardner.
I don’t think anyone need be concerned about the production quality of Doctor Who. Though some of the executive positions are changing, the core team will be the same, e.g. they’ll keep some of the current writers and directors, and it may even have the same Doctor by that time, which would ease the transition.
If anything, I prefer to think it will only get better.
Dewey, had I any idea how to find BBC America, I would. I’m not good with these things.
I know Phil Colinson has left the team and I heard a rumor Russel was leaving as well, so I wasn’t sure.
And yes, I know the series as is has set a definate tone they don;t want to disrupt. I am just truly enjoying the hell out of it and don’t want it to change just yet.
As for Torchwood … we can only hope. I love the adult tone and concepts and that despite it having the same basic Doctor underpinnings, the good guys don’t always win, let alone uphold their own standards. The sacrifices they make and how they suffer a very important to the concept, but it is such a strong series.
I’ve seen wierdness on the Web site, but it’s in blog form and I have no idea if it’s something that’s happened or just nonsense or what te heck is going on.
And damn BBc for making all the special features - or most any feature - accessible to those outside the UK. And why make the DW site less user friendly? What the heck are they thinking?
My name is dropzone and I’m a Who-aholic. I was doing well for about 25 years until the local PBS station started showing Doctor #9. My kids got addicted and I, who thought he was over it, got hooked again. As bad as I’ve heard “Torchwood” can be I must see it and the Sarah Jane show and, God knows, anything else they can throw at me, even (especially?) the early doctors (I started with Jon Pertwee).
I don’t care about canon, considering the whole playing-with-time thing. I just downloaded the 1996 movie and, say what people may, I enjoyed it. And the Doctor’s being half-human, despite its canonicity being still in dispute, explains his love of Earth almost as well as “humans are cheaper to use than latex-clad aliens.”
And Then Kisses Some Guy, Which Is Fine, but He Does It Every Episode. One of the names I’ve heard thrown out for the new Doctor is Richard Coyle from Coupling.
Not really hard to find. Either your cable company carries it or it doesn’t. If you haven’t been able to find it then I would guess yours doesn’t. I have DISH Network at it carries BBCA. A little while ago BBCA was advertising that BBCAHD was coming. Never made it to DISH.
I like Torchwood quite a bit. IMHO it started off trying to be too “sexy” to separate itself from Doctor Who but it moved away from that. Much darker but I like that.
I think he kissed a guy in maybe 4 episodes. Implied and flirted a bunch more but every episode is grossly inaccurate.
BBC America is a cable channel that shows programs from the BBC and other television channels in the UK. It’s shown both series of Torchwood and in fact showed the second series immediately after the UK broadcast. It also showed the recent Doctor Who series. So you might check if your cable or satellite provider has this channel.
Amazon.com has the first Torchwood series available but not the second. If you’re willing to get a Region 2 version of the second series, Amazon.co.uk will have it starting June 30, although I suspect that a Region 1 version will be available eventually.
Yeah, you’re right. Sometimes it just felt like “Hey, we’re BBC, we can get away with having two blokes kiss!” Probably because I’m American it felt jarring and weird. Nice to see that England has more realistic standards for how the world operates.
I watch Doctor Who on the SciFi channel, not BBCA. It’s a couple weeks behind the UK, but not too far.
I thought I watched Torchwood on SciFi too, but don’t remember now.
I don’t watch Torchwood just because two guys can kiss, but that is very refreshing. I’d be happier if they came up with better reasons for two guys to kiss instead of strong-arming it in every so often.
Yeah, yeah. I know what BBCA is and I’ve seen it before … I actually used to catch episodes of the Doctor on it before I got’em on disc from a friend. I simply have no idea what channel it is (to be fair, I only leach my cable from my roommate and only bother to remember a half-dozen channels). It only ever happened by chance.
New episodes of Torchwood are on BBCA. I don’t think they are shown anywhere else. Scifi gets Doctor Who a couple of months after they are in the UK. BBCA shows Doctor Who when it is at least a year old.
The one time the guy kissing bothered me was when they went back to 1940. Just not realistic for the time. Strike that, not like anything is realistic in the show, its not supposed to be. It seemed very forced since people did not act like that in 1940 in public, especially in the military.
You know, it’s not that hard to google up your local channel listings. I don’t watch live TV much and the only channel I know is SciFi, channel 71 for me. I googled it. If I want to find another channel I google it or just channel surf. Most channels have their logo displayed somewhere on the screen most of the time anyway. Just grab a piece of paper and jot down what your favorite channels are.
Wow, that was my all time favorite kissing scene, and a big part of what made me stick with the show. The original Captain Jack was about to die, never having experienced the one thing he really wanted, and the crowd looked appropriately shocked. But that was a time of war. Sometimes you just let certain things go.
See, for me, that was one of those uber-romantic moments that just GRABBED me around the heart and squeezed. The fact that it was 1940s Captain Jack who initiated the whole thing, knowing the potential consequences for him there and then, makes it even more impossibly romantic and sad.
jayjay, and others, I first though of the Jack-on-Jack kissing scene as pandering, but you may be right. The whole episode revolved around the tragedy of the war, and that, at the very last moment of the episode, was the clincher.
