this is just so wrong on so many levels. Why? I ask myself. WHY ruin one of the most fun and enjoyable sci-fi shows possibly ever made? What is the sense in that? This is the worse idea EVER I dont even want to think about it. Torchwood is supposed to be in Cardiff. Unless – because their Hub blew up, Harkness found a new location? thats the only reason I can think of for having a base in America. Fox will kill it. they will create a NON OMISEXUAL HARKNESS… in other words – “THE ANTI-HARKNESS” might as well just continue the series with a Torchwood base in Hell. and what is this B.S. about American Doctor Who??? dont get me started on how WRONG that is….

Nope. Americans aren’t so insular and zenophobic as all these translations make us out to be…but American networks are! A good number of friends and I enjoy British sitcoms like the IT Crowd, Mighty Boosh, Fawlty Towers and swap each others DVDs regularly. The Office with Ricky Gervais is pretty funny but I do admit to liking the American version better. I do think that for certain programming, American remakes create a demand that might not have been noticed otherwise. Like Japanese horror movies, for example. I can now walk into Blockbuster and find an aisle full of Japanese originals that inspired the Grudge, the Ring, Dark Water, etc. Same for Spanish zombie flicks. While I don’t think American remakes of Primeval, Dr Who or Torchwood are going to be any better than the British originals, it could create a new demand. And that’s ultimately good, right? I don’t know…I’m just glad that British programming is continuing to find their way here via DVD. =/

I don’t think i would have a problem, if it was an entirely new series (something akin to a spin-off of a spin-off), but to recreate what is already a great series seems kind of…egregious.

Please, no!
If this were to be developed as a continuation of the story of Torchwood – I could get behind that – but, if they seriously expect to retell the story…recast Gwen and Owen and Ianto… my head will pretty much explode.

Doesn’t anyone else remember the Davies video interview where he said he and BBC have come to differing views and he is moving to America to further his career with Hollywood?

Not two weeks later, Barrowman pretty much said the same thing. It was in that interview that he mentioned that there is plans for an American Torchwood and that he might be involved with it.

So, stop bashing us Americans. We love most BBC shows the way they are. But this appears to be an effort to keep Torchwood alive after the BBC killed it off.

Blame the BBC.

And us Americans will keep blaming Fox for killing off Firefly.

Will also keep blaming Sci-Fi (shame forced them to rename to SyFy) for killing off Farscape.

Bastards, ALL of them.