Torchwood on BBC America

[Milky Tears]

First episode hit BBC America last weekend and it's doing well so far:

http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6477673.html

BBCA: Torchwood Lit a Record
Premiere Delivers Biggest Audience For Drama in BBC America History
By Kent Gibbons -- Multichannel News, 9/11/2007 1:57:00 PM

BBC America said the premiere of Torchwood on Saturday night delivered the biggest audience of any drama premiere in the 58-million-subscriber network’s history.

The grownup science-fiction series, a spinoff of Russell T. Davies’s recent edition of Doctor Who, attracted 297,000 viewers at 9 p.m. ET and 6 p.m. PT in the target demographic of persons ages 25 to 54, network officials said.

That’s slightly ahead of how action drama Robin Hood performed when it premiered last year, at about the same rating (0.42). Viewer numbers were higher for Torchwood than Robin Hood because BBCA is in more homes now.

The relatively heavily promoted Torchwood premiere delivered 496,000 total viewers, network officials said.

A second airing, at midnight ET and 9 p.m. PT Saturday, delivered a 0.19 rating (139,000 viewers) in the target demographic, or 241,000 viewers overall, BBCA said.

Figures cited are live viewing and same-day viewing, which adds in a day’s worth of digitally recorded watching.

Check out the reviews as well:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a75...-response.html

'Torchwood' receives rapturous US response
Wednesday, September 12 2007, 09:24 BST
By Tony Delgado

The BBC's sci-fi drama Torchwood has garnered rave reviews in the US ahead of its debut this weekend.

TV Guide branded the Doctor Who spin-off "cheeky... and often startlingly adult," with Variety adding that it "has the fixings of a thinking-man's sci-fi series that doesn't take itself too seriously".

The Los Angeles Times gushed about the "dark and splendid" show's "overtones of Men in Black and Buffy the Vampire Slayer", with the Hollywood Reporter review stating that it is "so good and unsettling and creepy" .

However, one detractor was the Newark Star-Ledger's Alan Sepinwall, who dubbed the John Barrowman series "a pornographic parody of The X-Files".

The first season of Torchwood will launch on BBC America this Saturday, while the second season will be screened on BBC Two in early 2008.

American critics love Torchwood (Radio Times)

'Torchwood' is indescribably delicious' (Los Angeles Times)

Torchwood Review (Variety)

TV's Sexiest Alien Hunters (TV Guide)

Bottom Line: A crackling good, brilliantly conceived sci-fi series that targets actual grownups. (The Hollywood Reporter)

This Capt. Jack has his own swagger (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Viewers can easily get off on Brit thriller - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Illegal Aliens: Torchwood Heats Things Up - (E!)

SciFi Weekly



Most of the critics seem to like it! How can this be? It's the WORST TV SHOW EVAAAAHHHH and even Australia's Network Ten bumped it to a 12am slot halfway through Series One.


So we can now add "genius", "indescribably delicious", "crackling good, brilliantly conceived sci-fi series", "startlingly adult", "thinking-man's sci-fi" and "award-winning" to...


"FFS!! Enuff with the swearing and gay smutty bum stuff already!!", "OMG!! the gap between Gwen's teeth is toooooo wiiiide!!", "Owen's a vile, potty-mouthed, frikkin monkey-faced date rapist!!", IT'S LIKE IT WAS WRITTEN BY A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD PERV!!", ALIEN TECHNOLOGY HAS RAPED MY ENTIRE LIFE!!", THE CHINBALL WIZARD HAS DESTROYED EVERYTHING WITH HIS PISS-POOR VERSION OF HARD SCI-FI!!", "Touchwood ain't no BSG", "Touchcloth is the worst thing I have ever seen!!", etc, etc...???

Series Two is dooooomed!

[Pip Madeley]

However, one detractor was the Newark Star-Ledger's Alan Sepinwall, who dubbed the John Barrowman series "a pornographic parody of The X-Files".

Bang on.

[Rob McCow]

However, one detractor was the Newark Star-Ledger's Alan Sepinwall, who dubbed the John Barrowman series "a pornographic parody of The X-Files".

I don't know about you, but I think that a pornographic parody of the X-Files is long overdue! That's a fabulous concept for a show and certainly one that'd get me watching.

[Milky Tears]

His is the only review I value:

For adult audiences, but not mature ones

But can you trust someone with a beard like that who makes the classic "England" mistake?

[Andrew Curnow]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the reviewer's surname! Any relation to Roger D?