Oh NO! Say its not SO!

hi ElicBxn wow I loved the X files so thats what happened, I dont know about the others as I seldom get to see programs that I like as we have two big televisions here and the other residents hog the programs they like. So I end up coming up here and mylotting since I can not afford a television of my own. sob sob but I do have my computer. so thats a plus.

X-Files went downhill when they moved production from Vancouver to California. (And I'm not saying that just because I worked on a lot of the episodes...)

Doll house is back on Friday on fox

I gather someone got out their pencil again...I can't tell because the link didn't work. But if it's what it sounds like, you have to ask yourself why! It's a great series, & wildly popular--so---why?!? This is who I promised myself never to get that involved in another series after they tried so hard to kill off Dr. Who (but they're still trying to!). Yet then I turned right around & totally got into The Sentinel. That was your fault, durn it, but now can I get you to watch it with me? Noooo... Still, you also finally convinced me to start following Torchwood, & LOOK WHAT HAPPENS!!! I refuse to carry the torch for yet another great show. It's just maddening, that's what it is. Cack-handed PTBs!!! Grrr! Maggiepie "We will need to rewrite some history, of course." Mrs. Michelle Obama

I tend to hate American versions of British shows. Most of them bomb and disappear quickly, like Life on Mars or worse yet Coupling. Coupling could never go over here on network, except possibly on FX, and maybe then only as a cartoon version. The best that can be said about Fox's Dr. Who is that it tried to keepthe series going during a dormant time in the UK and perhaps that lead to it's revival there. I've been hoping that Torchwood would continue although I wondered how they would fill out the cast after killing off most of the regulars. For a Fox version, I have a little trouble seeing John Barrowman as a regular because without the gayness that he displayed in the original. Then again you would need a character like Capt. Jack to hold things together. Another problem with an American version: in the UK programs generally run for a series of 6 to 12 episodes per year. In the US there are as many as 24 shows per year (unless on cable). Can Fox spend the money on special effects and fresh plots to keep the show running? All in all, I'd fee better if the US version was on SyFy instead of Fox, and it would be etter yet if the US version was a spin off of a new series of UK shows.

I remember hearing about this on some podcast a few months ago. I enjoyed watching the tv show itslef. but i think if they did an us version it would fail. like the way some us verson of sci-fi shows have. I rember wacting the show life on mars on bbc america. i watched one epsiod of the us version and that is all I saw of it. their style over in the uk is so much differnt. leave well ennough alone.

I found this on line. I am not sure what they mean by focusing on more global story line. Do you think they will be traveling to different countries to deal with the aliens? http://www.seattlepi.com/tvguide/414411_tvgif19.html [i]Fox is developing an American version of the British hit series Torchwood, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Original series creator Russell Davies is writing the script for the adaptation, which comes from BBC Worldwide Productions, the trade paper reported. Torchwood follows a covert agency that investigates alien incidents on Earth and steals alien technology for its own use. The series — a spin-off of BBC's Doctor Who — originally aired stateside on BBC America along with the Torchwood miniseries "Children of Earth," which broke ratings records for the network. Besides Davies, the U.S. version of the show has recruited the help of BBC veterans Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter, the trade paper said. The man behind Capt. Jack Harkness, John Barrowman, may even star in the U.S. pilot. Unlike the original series, however, the new Torchwood will focus on a more global story line. [/i]

An American Torchwood? And making the storylines more global in nature? That sounds like a completely mad idea to me, they might just as well make a completely original series and avoid paying the BBC copyrright. For me, one of the things that makes Torchwood so distinctive is the fact that it's set in a fairly limited geographical area (mostly Cardiff and the surrounding countryside) along with the fact that Torchwood Cardiff seem to be an extremely low budget outfit compared to the London branch seen earlier in Doctor Who. Turning them into a bunch of globetrotters would completely alter the nature of the series.

I have never seen Torchwood or the X-files for that matter. I do watch Dollhouse sometimes. I am not really into science fiction. I guess that's why I never watched those shows. I hope for your sake the talks do fall thru!