Torchwood would be an easier sell to an American network, because it's something familiar.
*Too* familiar, considering the number of alien/supernatural shoot-em-ups we've got going on right now. Let's see... in addition to reruns of Buffy, Angel, and X-Files, there's Fringe, Supernatural, Warehouse 13, Sanctuary (or has that been canceled?), True Blood...
I'm thinking that we've hit max saturation on the whole genre.
If it goes to series, I'll watch it until FOX pulls the plug.
I don't know, personally. On one hand, I'm totally over RTD's throw-it-at-the-screen form of storytelling. On the other, our censors won't let him snuff little kids on screen. (And on the third hand - we are talking aliens here - I'm hearing rumors that it may be set in DC. The idea of an anti-Government nut with no grasp of the American mindset setting his show in our capitol is so damned funny that I may watch for the point-and-laugh value.)
the rampant fear about how (and if!) this will fit into the Doctor Who universe
I'm not even going to think about that until (if) they film. Because so far, there is still no proof of an actual deal here.
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Date: 2010-01-20 02:30 am (UTC)*Too* familiar, considering the number of alien/supernatural shoot-em-ups we've got going on right now. Let's see... in addition to reruns of Buffy, Angel, and X-Files, there's Fringe, Supernatural, Warehouse 13, Sanctuary (or has that been canceled?), True Blood...
I'm thinking that we've hit max saturation on the whole genre.
If it goes to series, I'll watch it until FOX pulls the plug.
I don't know, personally. On one hand, I'm totally over RTD's throw-it-at-the-screen form of storytelling. On the other, our censors won't let him snuff little kids on screen. (And on the third hand - we are talking aliens here - I'm hearing rumors that it may be set in DC. The idea of an anti-Government nut with no grasp of the American mindset setting his show in our capitol is so damned funny that I may watch for the point-and-laugh value.)
the rampant fear about how (and if!) this will fit into the Doctor Who universe
I'm not even going to think about that until (if) they film. Because so far, there is still no proof of an actual deal here.