Americanized "Torchwood" Scrapped
By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (28)
Fox proved that their habit of taking cult science fiction shows behind the shed could actually be a force for good by canceling their Americanized version of “Torchwood” before it could produce a pilot. Oh sweet Ianto’s saucy bum, that’s the best negative news I’ve ever heard outside of a doctor’s office.
BBC had this to say: “BBC Worldwide Productions and the FOX Broadcasting Company have mutually agreed not to progress together with a 13-episode serialized ‘Torchwood’ format. We are currently in discussion with several interested networks.”
Oh wait, that’s the other foot dropping. Disposable network executive Jane Tranter insisted: “It’s very much ongoing and very much alive.” So’s drug-resistant syphilis, it’s not a good idea either.
Look, to beat the dead horse that keeps getting up and trying to shuffle onto my television: JUST BROADCAST TORCHWOOD AS IT IS. There’s no need to remake the damned thing for American audiences. Hell, the entire reason that the BBC is convinced that there’s an American audience is because a bunch of Yanks keep buying the DVDs and watching the show on BBC America. How exactly is that evidence that it needs to be Americanized in order to broadcast it in the United States? They’ve also insisted that the show would have the same production team and star Jack Barrowman. I’m just about convinced that the entire “Americanization” is an elaborate ruse to just sell one of the American networks the existing episodes of “Torchwood” at new episode prices.
[Thinks about it]
I bet NBC would bite.
(source: THR)
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Comments
Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2010 10:07 AM
My name is Robert, and I support this message.
Seriously, Torchwood is the single campiest Sci-Fi show of the past ten years and that's part of its charm. There's no network, shy of Logo or Showtime (maybe HBO), that would allow every character (but the boring, annoying, saintly female lead) to go both ways and hop on and off any kind of genitalia (man, woman, alien) like a subway train. If I can't watch a fish-faced doctor setting up a three-way in a bar with another man and a woman before fighting aliens, I don't want to watch.
No way this will work in America. The teeth will be too perfect and the vowels not round and Welshy enough. Wasn't enough irreversible damage done with the five episode Children of Earth? Let it be. Or at the very least promise Gwen (or her Amerian cousin Jen) will not be starring. Please?