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TimmyTAR

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(06/26/08 3:58 PM)

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I just hope that the new people coming into Torchwood add great elements to the story and will fill the void in my heart after Owen and Toshiko died. This show needs to come back soon to BBC America.

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Did I read (maybe on this site even?) that Torchwood will be back in the spring of 2009 with 5 or 7 episodes only. No word on when/if BBCA will show them. I'm lucky to get HDNet and they are showing all the Torchwoods on Monday nights in order. This coming Monday will be Episode 10. So I'm catching up quite nicely and now I'm totally hooked. My girlfriend made me watch the last episodes and now my heart breaks with each episode because I know Tosh & Owen die.

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(07/26/08 3:45 PM)

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[07.24.08 - 03:11 PM]
CAPTAIN JACK IS BACK! BBC AMERICA ACQUIRES ALL-NEW SEASON OF SCI-FI PHENOMENON TORCHWOOD
Released by BBC America

[NOTE: The following article is a press release issued by the aforementioned network and/or company. Any errors, typos, etc. are attributed to the original author. The release is reproduced solely for the dissemination of the enclosed information.]

CAPTAIN JACK IS BACK! BBC AMERICA acquires all-new season of sci-fi phenomenon Torchwood

Comic-Con, San Diego - BBC AMERICA today announced the acquisition of the highly anticipated season three of its hit sci-fi series, Torchwood. The highest rating show in the history of BBC AMERICA will return to the channel with five all-new episodes in 2009.

Torchwood (S3 5 x 60) is a BBC production distributed by BBC Worldwide.

The award-winning show, which received huge critical acclaim for season one and two, will premiere on BBC AMERICA shortly after the UK premiere.

Richard De Croce, Senior Vice President, Programming, BBC Worldwide America said, "Captain Jack is coming back to BBC America and we can't wait! Torchwood really represents the essence of the channel - it's sexy, action packed and a little bit subversive. Clearly our viewers love it as much as we do."

Created by Russell T Davies, lead writer and executive producer on the current Doctor Who, the dark, wild and sexy sci-fi drama follows the adventures of a team of investigators who use scavenged alien technology to solve present day crime both human and alien. Led by the enigmatic Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman), the Torchwood team are separate from the government, outside the police and beyond the United Nations. Torchwood sets its own rules, delving into the unknown and fighting the impossible.

BBC AMERICA brings audiences a new generation of award-winning television featuring razor-sharp comedies, provocative dramas, life-changing makeovers and news with a uniquely global perspective. BBC AMERICA pushes the boundaries to deliver high quality, highly addictive and eminently watchable programming to viewers who demand more. BBC AMERICA is distributed by Discovery Networks. It is available on digital cable and satellite TV.

Five episodes...ugh. This may be heresy, but I would actually like it if they developed an American version of this show and kept the same... "subversive" elements. Mostly because at least I know that the US versions will create 22-23 episodes a season instead of half that, or, even worse...just FIVE. Ugh.

TimmyTAR

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Only five episodes? If each episode was two hours long, then maybe I can forgive them, but only five 60-minute episodes?

They had better kick some major arse.

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(07/26/08 8:26 PM)

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I think I read somewhere that the five episodes were going to be aired over the course of a week, with one a night.

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(07/27/08 1:05 AM)

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Is Tosh coming back? I won't watch this anymore if she doesn't. This show was hard to watch even when she was on. It seemed so goofy and the main girl with the gap in her teeth is annoying as fuck. Tosh was the only thing keeping me watching this.

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Tune on out then. lol

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Anybody know if Torchwood or Doctor who episodes are edited down on the US DVDs to coincide with the versions that aired here? I watched this online and wouldn't mind forking over some money for the DVDs but I don't think I would want them if they were the edited versuons.

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I thought Torchwood was going on break with Doctor Who?

pt as far as I know, Torchwood isn't edited and the only thing that was removed from Doctor Who was that scene of the Master dancing to music from one of the finales.

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BBCAmerica to air the Torchwood episodes hours after it airs in the UK as opposed to Sci Fi airing Doctor Who weeks after it airs in the states.

http://blog.wired.com/und...9/01/httpwwwafterelt.html

YAY!

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(01/19/09 11:00 PM)

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ptcruisn56 wrote:
Anybody know if Torchwood or Doctor who episodes are edited down on the US DVDs to coincide with the versions that aired here? I watched this online and wouldn't mind forking over some money for the DVDs but I don't think I would want them if they were the edited versuons.

The DVD's have the episodes unedited. At least that's the case for all of the DVDs that I have.

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(01/20/09 5:54 AM)

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w00t! But I don't have the cable box anymore so I can't get BBCAmerica. XO When does the show start so I know when to visit their website and watch the episodes online?

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(05/22/09 2:34 PM)

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Ok I just finished the second season of new Doctor Who and I was hoping that they would have explained how Jack got to Torchwood from Satellite 5. It just doesn't make sense to me, I thought the events that happened in Bad Wolf and The Parting of Ways took place many many years in the future and Torchwood isn't set in the same time period. Now I realize that Jack is goes with the Doctor at the end of the first season of Torchwood and will be in some episodes of the third season of Doctor Who, do they explain how he got to Torchwood then? Or is it never explained?

By the way thanks for answering my DVD question.

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(05/22/09 5:32 PM)

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ptcruisn56 wrote:
Ok I just finished the second season of new Doctor Who and I was hoping that they would have explained how Jack got to Torchwood from Satellite 5. It just doesn't make sense to me, I thought the events that happened in Bad Wolf and The Parting of Ways took place many many years in the future and Torchwood isn't set in the same time period. Now I realize that Jack is goes with the Doctor at the end of the first season of Torchwood and will be in some episodes of the third season of Doctor Who, do they explain how he got to Torchwood then? Or is it never explained?

By the way thanks for answering my DVD question.

It's explained in the third season of Doctor Who, when Jack comes back and joins the TARDIS.

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Awesome thanks. Cannot wait to continue on then!

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For those of you with means and opportunity, Torchwood S3 Children of Earth will air next week on the BBC, Monday through Friday at 9:00 pm (4pm eastern, 1pm pacific). It may magically appear on the internets about an hour after that.

BBC Radio 4 is also airing audio plays Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. They're freely downloadable for a short period of time.

Radio 4 website

Last Edited By: lizzo1 07/01/09 9:01 PM. Edited 1 times.

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I'm going to get the blu-rays for this and S2 when they're out later this month. Can't wait!

TimmyTAR

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:D This is a pleasant surprise! I'd better get a Torchwood avatar around or something to celebrate! I'm really hoping the episode is on the BBC website soon after their first broadcast. Is it the same episode airing from Monday through Friday? Or is "Childen of Earth" a subtitle for season three?

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The Children of Earth promos have been creeping me out. Possessed children? Eeep.

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TimmyTAR wrote:
:D This is a pleasant surprise! I'd better get a Torchwood avatar around or something to celebrate! I'm really hoping the episode is on the BBC website soon after their first broadcast. Is it the same episode airing from Monday through Friday? Or is "Childen of Earth" a subtitle for season three?

It's a subtitle. Five episode arc.

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