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Five episodes?! Those pesky and increasingly legit-sounding "Torchwood" rumors ...
You might remember that in March certain rumors surfaced about how the third season of Torchwood might look like a very different show. Considering all the rumors I heard during the thrid season of Doctor Who, I initially scoffed at these wild rumors; after all, Freema Agyeman is still working in the Whoverse, the series isn't in the midst of its final season and James Nesbitt hasn't been cast as the eleventh Doctor. Okay, perhaps it means something that all those ridiculous rumors came from the same source.
However, piece by piece, that radical-sounding Torchwood The good news? John Barrowman is signed on to appear in season three, so at least that part of the rumor is looking untrue. However, TV Guide also says that the series will run on BBC1, instead of BBC3, where the series debuted and was allowed to be more adult-oriented than Doctor Who. Is this a sign that Torchwood will return aimed at the younger and more general Doctor Who audience? We'll have to keep an eye on this story as it develops. Hopefully, we'll get an answer soon after the current Doctor Who season concludes in July. Submitted by on Tue, 2008-06-03 10:18. |
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huh?
any idea why they have decided to have season 3 turn into a miniseries??
since it's only for 5 episodes and for a week...does that mean the episodes will be longer in time?
The language TV Guide uses
Well it's not really unsual
Well it's not really unsual for British tv shows to be 5 or 6 episodes long but usually not BBC stuff and to go from 13 to 5 and all in one week is well...odd.
All these rumours are starting to scare me. Thanks for keeping us updated I'm off to search around some Torchwood message boards.
I'm, seriously freaked out
Same here, it's perfect the
I am just heartbroken. I
Torchwood mini-series: Not necessarily a cause for alarm
The only thing that worries me is if they're going to kill off any of the leads. I just love all five of them and I would hate to lose any of them so early in the show. It wouldn't be the same show anymore to me if they'd replace too many of the team members.
Maybe them doing just a mini-series is related to Doctor Who's gap year (during which they'll only make three specials instead of an actual season) and the fact that Russel T. Davies is leaving Who and Moffat is taking over. Since Davies is the man who's been in charge of the Whoniverse these past years and Moffat is now taking over as the head of the DW, I can imagine that they want to take things a bit slower for a while and let Moffat settle in. And since Torchwood is part of the same franchise then maybe they are doing the same thing with this show as well.
So maybe doing a mini-series is actually a good thing. Maybe they are doing it to keep the show alive and to keep up interest in TW instead of holding a gap year and not produce anything at all during that time.
They might also be doing it for artistic reasons. Since the whole mini-series is going to be one big story then maybe one of the reasons they're doing it this way is because the story they want to tell wouldn't fit the show's normal format.
As for watering down the show... if the original, unedited version of each episode is still post-watershed then I wouldn't worry about them turning it into a kid's show. Just beacuse it's going to be on BBC1 doesn't mean that it's going to be pre-watershed... or does it?
Unless I'm mistaken, isn't BBC1 the primary and the most important of BBC's channels? If so, moving Torchwood to BBC could actually mean that the show's actually gained higher status. I mean, didn't the show start out on BBC3, a digital only channel? Then it's been on and off on BBC2 and now they're taking it to BBC1. So unless I've totally mistunderstood how the BBC works, then this is a positive development and shows that the BBC values the show a lot.
Cherry / Torchwood_Operative
Click here for an episode by episode list of Torchwood elements in "Doctor Who".
No Janto, no me
Budget cuts
We have to remember that the BBC is a publicly funded network. As I understand it, the they were unable to raise television licensing fees for next year, and as a result they've had to cut budgets for shows across the board. Doing a five hour miniseries is their way of trying to maintain quality and content with what they have to spend, rather than giving us more episodes that don't meet the high standards the audience has come to expect.
UK TV just doesn't work the same way as US TV. It's entirely possible that the BBC will be able to shuffle their figures and fit in a second miniseries later in 2009, but five good episodes are all they can afford right now.