Torchwood (an anagram of Doctor Who and featured as a recurring plot point of season 2) the Doctor Who spin-off series is coming to the CBC this fall. The channel hasn’t mentioned when the show will be airing, and I personally am a little unsure of how much of it will make broadcast.

Unlike Doctor Who, which though occasionally creepy is aimed at family viewers, Torchwood is definitely a more adult series featuring language, sex, adult material and subject matter. While I enjoyed it, it has no where near the same appeal as the new Doctor Who series does, though it is fun to watch Captain Jack (John Barrowman) run around and hit on just about anyone and anything!

The series got troubling reviews from some critics in the UK as it left behind it’s core Doctor Who audience, the young, and positioned itself as a more grown-up program.

If you’re a rabid fan of the new Doctor Who the series is not necessarily a must, but it will certainly fill the time until the next series of Doctor Who starts, or series 3 comes to DVD.

The original article can be seen here

This post was Authored by TD, Our Resident Authority on all things BBC

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 at 8:01 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.