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Torchwood uncut

For those who live in the US and want to see it uncut (BBC America cuts out a few minutes for time when they broadcast it), apparently the uncut version is on BBC America OnDemand.

Dwiz's picture

I thought the Brits were uncut?


OK... bad joke (my subject title)!

I know. But I couldn't resist!

Thanks for the tip, though: I had no idea they were editing any of it! Do you know if it's just a few seconds here and there throughout the episode, or are there any scenes missing? OMG! I don't want to miss out on anything good!! :(

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LyleMasaki's picture

If its anything like Doctor Who

... they usually find a minor bit that doesn't affect the story. One of the memorable cuts from the Sci-Fi version of Doctor Who (which was also only cut for commercial time) snipped a joke where "the last human" introduced Britney Spears' "Toxic" as an ancient love song. Funny but nothing major.

Still, I understand wanting to catch the whole thing.
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Cylon's picture

I don't know what gets

I don't know what gets cut.

According to this, "...the best news is that the content of those shows -- especially that of Torchwood -- is not going to be edited by censors. There is one caveat in that when shown in the U.K. the programs run 50 minutes, but here will be 48 minutes, meaning two minutes will be cut. But Ancier assured us that any cuts made would be extraneous material and not Captain Jack's same-sex kisses or double-entendres."

In the end, it depends on how long the original episode was. When airing Doctor Who on Sci-Fi, sometimes nothing would get cut, sometimes a small bit would get cut, and sometimes an entire scene or two would get cut (apparently, BBC doesn't cut as much out of Who as Sci-Fi does, but they still will cut stuff out).

This topic might have more info for you.

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Jo's picture

If you want to see . . .

Lots of scenes that were deleted from the British-shown episodes of Torchwood, go to YouTube and search on 'torchwood deleted scenes'.  They make really good viewing once you have seen their respective episodes.  What I found strange was that some episodes had only a minute or 2 of scenes cut while others had up to 6 or 8 minutes of cut or alternate scenes.  The episode 'Out of Time', which was great to start with, would have been bl**dy brilliant if they'd kept in most of the deleted scenes.  And I really liked the alternate 'Jack spikes Gwen's drink' scene from the first episode 'Everything Changes', probably even more that the one that made it into the episode.

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