No US Torchwood

[jwyblejr]

Was just over to TNI and they have it that Fox won't be doing a US version of Torchwood.

[palitoy]

Yeah, there's no FOX Torchwood although BBC is still looking for a US partner. Considering that Fox seems to kill anything that developes an ardent fanbase, that's a good thing.

[Mikey]

I like the original Torchie and wasn't looking up to a US version so i'm cool with it not being remade here.

Hope the British one continues though

[Meule]

Watching reruns now, never liked the idea of a US Torchwood. Nothing wrong with the original, why copy it?

[samurainoir]

There really doesn't need to be a US Torchwood.

I can't think of a single US remake of a UK show that has improved on the original. Not Doctor Who, not Red Dwarf, not Life on Mars.

MAYBE The Office (for some folks, I'm too big a Ricky Gervais fan to feel that way).

[GaryPlaysWithDolls]

Thank GOD! I'd like to see more real TORCHWOOD. I'm not sure what the high concept of it was anyway. How would you distinguish it as a TORCHWOOD remake, anyway? I mean LIFE ON MARS at least had a sort of nugget that you could say "Modern cop transported to the seventies". What would TORCHWOOD be "Pretty people shagging and occasionally an alien. Oh, and Jack will have a go at anything that walks"

I would have preferred a US Primeval. The UK one slowly disintergrated.

[ctc]

Yay!

The bleakness and brutality is a big part of what makes Torchwood what it is, and I couldn't see an American version keeping it. A happy ending on a Torchwood episode? Pfeh!

Don C.

[samurainoir]

I would have preferred a US Primeval. The UK one slowly disintergrated.

I really couldn't get into Primeval.