Yay! TV to look forward to this weekend! BBC America will begin airing the 2nd season of Torchwood on Saturday at 9pmEST. Something to be thankful to the strike for; several shows that probably wouldn’t have gotten much press are getting a look see. For instance, Yahoo has Saturday’s Torchwood listed as one of the weekly top ten to watch and TvGuide’s Matt Roush answers a fan’s question regarding the possibility of Torchwood moving from BBC America to SciFi (succinctly- it doesn’t look likely).

I am REALLY excited about season 2. See some second season pics (with James Marsters) here. Though I enjoyed the first season, I was really disappointed in the characters. I appreciated the need to differentiate *this* Torchwood from the other iterations seen on Doctor Who, however, I wanted the folks involved to be at least a little shiny, even if their offices are not.

If you’re familiar with the characters, I hope you’ll understand that I’m not a hater, however, I can’t stand Owen… ya know, I can’t stand any of them- with the exception of the weirdly underused Captain Jack. In one of the season’s really great offerings, Countrycide, I was morbidly hoping that one of the cast was going to meet an untimely end at the hands of the beastly cannibal antagonists.

My wish for season two is that each character in turn receives an opportunity to redeem him or herself from her blaise blechness.

So, for something new with the hope of exciting, tune into Torchwood’s second season premiere Saturday night at 9est on BBC America.