CCI: Torchwood

[andy khouri]

Cast members John Barrowman, Gareth David-Lloyd and Naoko Mori joined executive producer Julie Gardner at the “Torchwood” panel at Comic-Con to talk about the upcoming third season of BBC’s most popular series ever.

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[king mob]

BBC’s most popular series ever.

Errr, it isn't.

[IamtheRock3]

maybe BBC Amercia most popular show

[ZT4]

Doctor Who is the BBC's highest rated and most popular series ever. Torcwhood is an R-Rated Chuckelvision that has occasional moments of excellence, but anyone taking it seriously ought to be shot so generations are spared audiences that think that stuff is drama. At best, it's a highly-rated panto that the BBC are burying (why else would it get only five next season?) It had it's chance and never found a direction..they even explained everything related to the main character in the flagship show for god's sake...

[king mob]

Doctor Who is the BBC's highest rated and most popular series ever.

I'm sure Eastenders, Dad's Army, Monty Python, Strictly Come Dancing, Steptoe & Son, Morecambe and Wise, The Office, Little Britain & Match Of The Day would have something to say about that. Let's get a bit of perspective about Who; it is hugely popular again & it does deserve it's place in television history but it's not the highest rated or most popular programme ever.

Torcwhood is an R-Rated Chuckelvision that has occasional moments of excellence, but anyone taking it seriously ought to be shot so generations are spared audiences that think that stuff is drama. At best, it's a highly-rated panto that the BBC are burying (why else would it get only five next season?) It had it's chance and never found a direction..they even explained everything related to the main character in the flagship show for god's sake...

I picked up the first series in Zavvi for 20 quid in order to give it a second chance, & yes, most of it is juvenille rubbish but there are some gems hiding in the rough, Small Worlds & Captain Jack Harkness are stand out episodes and are good solid bits of British telefantasy.
It has potential but it needs to drop the pretense of 'adult' drama and target itself at a wider audience, while seriously upping the quality of scripts.

[Ontir]

I'm under the impression that Torchwood is only getting 5 NEXT season, but that like Doctor Who it will be back full-force in 2010.

I have to say I enjoyed Season One better than Two, which just got painfully and unbearably dark, but never seemed to reach the moments of greatness like the faeries ep or "Meat" in Season One. I've also heard that the tone is being shifted, more in line with "Who," which I think will help. For the most part, the R-Ratedness of the show has been saying "Fuck" a lot. I'm looking for a bit more than that if I'm going to get "a post-watershed show."

[Cayman]

Bring back Tosh!

[Ian Boothby]

I'm sure Eastenders, Dad's Army, Monty Python, Strictly Come Dancing, Steptoe & Son, Morecambe and Wise, The Office, Little Britain & Match Of The Day would have something to say about that. Let's get a bit of perspective about Who; it is hugely popular again & it does deserve it's place in television history but it's not the highest rated or most popular programme ever.

Really? Even adding the original series into the mix?

[rick]

Actually Torchwood is BBC Americas highest rated program ever.

[mattx110]

Actually Torchwood is BBC Americas highest rated program ever.

Thank you for reminding me Graham Norton was on today (in a weird my mind works weird way). I think it might be the David Tennant one....

edit: It was actually Kevin Bacon and another man who has played Casanova, Tony Curtis.... I know. awesome.

[StoneGold]

Actually Torchwood is BBC Americas highest rated program ever.

A whole .04!


Oh come on, it's high number cable.

[king mob]

Really? Even adding the original series into the mix?

Yup, it's up there in the top twenty & it's probably the BBC's most popular childrens show ever, but it's nowhere near the 'TOP PROGRAMME EVAHHHH!!' hyperbole you especially see on Outpost Gallifrey, and now repeated here.

[Deathstroke]

Torchwood is like any other show. It has moments of greatness and moments of dumbness.

I like the show and for me that's all that matters to me.

I just wish the next "season" was not just 5 episodes.

[jeremybement]

Torchwood was BBC3's higest-rated show when it first premiered for Series One. (Doctor Who, on the other hand, airs on BBC1 - which is where Torchwood was moved for Series Two.) It's comparable to a show premiering on Fox for the first season, becoming a huge hit and then moving to NBC for the second season. Torchwood was also BBC America's highest-rated show to air on the network.

As for Torchwood's shortened Series Three, there is a reasoning behind it just as there is a reason for Doctor Who to only have 4 specials in 2009. And it's not because of how Torchwood did in the ratings for Series Two...

[ScotiaNova]

Torchwood was BBC3's higest-rated show when it first premiered for Series One. (Doctor Who, on the other hand, airs on BBC1 - which is where Torchwood was moved for Series Two.) It's comparable to a show premiering on Fox for the first season, becoming a huge hit and then moving to NBC for the second season. Torchwood was also BBC America's highest-rated show to air on the network.

Series 2 of Torchwood was still on BBC2 it's next years "event" of 5 episodes in the space of a week which will air on BBC1.