currently Fox may comission a pilot based on RTD's script which may, if commissioned as a pilot star JB (and Eve Myles) or may not.
Which only points out what I've been thinking all along - that this is much sound and fury signifying nothing. Torchwood S4 remains the vaporware it's been all along, despite the noise that it's coming back any minute now, bigger, stronger, faster.
How many good shows NEVER get past a pilot episode?
Quite a lot, and some don't even make it to the pilot episode.
In Torchwood's case, it's got a hugely uphill climb. Even if RTD wants to remake it entirely from scratch, he's going to have to differentiate it from all of the other supernatural/alien mystery shoot-em-ups with which our networks are littered. And he's going to have to do so without some of what he considers to be edgy plot points - murdering kids onscreen will NOT play in Peoria!
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Date: 2010-01-20 02:24 am (UTC)Which only points out what I've been thinking all along - that this is much sound and fury signifying nothing. Torchwood S4 remains the vaporware it's been all along, despite the noise that it's coming back any minute now, bigger, stronger, faster.
How many good shows NEVER get past a pilot episode?
Quite a lot, and some don't even make it to the pilot episode.
In Torchwood's case, it's got a hugely uphill climb. Even if RTD wants to remake it entirely from scratch, he's going to have to differentiate it from all of the other supernatural/alien mystery shoot-em-ups with which our networks are littered. And he's going to have to do so without some of what he considers to be edgy plot points - murdering kids onscreen will NOT play in Peoria!