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They’re a damn portentous looking lot, aren’t they?
They have to fight portentous aliens!
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Viola! No more middle-men!
No!
That’s Girlchild’s favourite!
Oh, the screams when she finds out…
Why are they all frowning? Could it be they have realized too late what a load of absolute crapola Torchwood is? Are they all looking angrily at Russell T Davies? “You expect us to perform this?!”
The early episodes of Tochwood were great (the one about the fairies was really well done as was the one with the cannibals) but I lost interest after that.
But relegating sci-fi to the wee hours is what happens to all the good shows on commercial TV. Bablyon 5 was treated abysmally by Nine and Ten had no clue with Battlestar Galactica. It is the lot of the genre.
And they wonder why Australia has the worst percentage of people downloading television programs in the world.
Just imagine how wonderfully worse that figure will get when real competition arrives!
Why would you want to watch a bunch of silly spiders and crawlies and things when you can watch the Lost Tomb of Jesus. This latter is some sort of pinch from what they used to offer us on SBS on Sundays, before they got into American wife-swapping, or whatever the stuff is?
Actually, same with ABC. Last night they were doing repeats with the guy from Jonathon Creek as a lawyer, the wrong side of midnight. And let’s not forget, one of the commercials does “Passions” at 2 or 3 so in the morning, followed by Victoria Principle Guthy- Renker’s “Greasy Face-Slather for Women Who Want to be Women”.
One thing I do like about Torchwood is what a friend of mine pointed out – a lot of the show is actually about sexual/office politics rather than fighting aliens. She thinks that makes it a lot more adult than Dr Who.
Is that what has happened? I must admit that I was annoyed last week when it was on late because of the never ending finale of that crappy reality show. I was again annoyed tonight when it wasn’t on. Thankyou for letting us know it is being shown on Tuesday nights now. I would probably have missed it otherwise. I wish ABC had purchased the rights to Torchwood!!!
Strangely, Damien, I noticed the other day they’re selling the dvds through the ABC shop. The distribution and transmission rights must be separately licenced.
How does this 10 scamming racket get away with putting Benny fucking Hinn on?( HINN not Hill btw)
I thought we had some token consumer fraud laws in this wide brown governor-generalate.
Torchwood was rating extremely well until Big Brother started running over by 55 minutes. Overrunning by even 15 minutes typically means the following show sheds up to a fifth of its audience.
The Jesus Christ tomb show was fucking rivetting tele, just quietly.
I’ve never seen torchwood but as a fan of the sopranos ad six feet under I know the pain you have experienced.
IPTV and streaming broadband video will crush our terrible television networks, and I will rejoice.
Michael, is that Harry Clarke on your gravatar?
Harry looks more organismic, normally.
Funny story – I was so disgusted by the swapping of Torchwood for James Cameron’s tendentious twaddle that I fired up the old ‘puter and popped online, only to see this post.
Heh.
I had my Torchwood fix last night – taped last week’s episode as I was too tired to watch it after bloody BB went over and over and over time.
Worse than putting it on late on Tuesday night (or early on Wednesday morning), they put it on after the Letterman show. This is ridiculous!!! Mind you, it was worth the wait. Tonights episode of Torchwood was awesome!!! Once again, thankyou for letting us know about the change in times Mark.
No probs, Damien – I enjoyed it tonight too!
“… the show is about office sexual politics rather than fighting aliens”.
I thought the two were one and the same.
The similarity of Torchwood to most other free to air telly, post internet, is in fact probably a reason I started ducking it, after a bit.
Apart from the ads. British television should never be soiled with the grubby accoutrements of commercialism.
Take it this other “Jesus’ Tomb” show wasn’t you best archeology type doco, either?
What point putting educational stuff on a commercial station, anyway. Public broadcasting used to the go, until they realised the public was starting to educate itself.
What’s all this bitchin about good SF programs being programmed at odd hours? They wouldn’t be cult shows if you could watch them easily.
Also, has anyone else worked out ‘Torchwood’ is an anagram of ‘Doctor Who’?
And that ‘Russell T Davies’ is an anagram of ‘Savers Duellist’?
You may have heard this 70′s Tune being played in the Background during Tonight’s Episode.