I'm just saying, he's in it to make money like everyone else and this potentially makes him money. It's certainly more profitable with the general U.S. public, this particular formula, than Doctor Who ever has been or looks to be despite any name recognition.
"The overlap between Starz and BBCA is doubtless miniscule; they'd have to start over to explain everything - an explanation that will doubtless retcon the Hub and Rift away (which I am a bit bitter about, as it was The Whole Point for two seasons)."
They've specifically said the show's going to be removed from its Cardiff location and set "all over the world" but "mostly in North America" (insert waspish comment about what many U.S. viewers think = "all over the world" here), so I can't imagine how they could possibly incorporate either Hub or Rift except as a throwaway expository reference. Maybe not even that, as it sounds like they can just as well do an alien-hunting show or whatever the new plotline will be without involving questions of time and thus the Rift in it at all--particularly since there's no hint there'll be any Whovian connection remaining at all.
"But considering what Torchwood was and what it's become (and certainly in view of where it started on Who) - why not just slap a new name on the damned thing and be done with it?"
Just plain old branding, I assume, so he can keep the people who started watching the old version as well as pick up the new.
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I'm just saying, he's in it to make money like everyone else and this potentially makes him money. It's certainly more profitable with the general U.S. public, this particular formula, than Doctor Who ever has been or looks to be despite any name recognition.
"The overlap between Starz and BBCA is doubtless miniscule; they'd have to start over to explain everything - an explanation that will doubtless retcon the Hub and Rift away (which I am a bit bitter about, as it was The Whole Point for two seasons)."
They've specifically said the show's going to be removed from its Cardiff location and set "all over the world" but "mostly in North America" (insert waspish comment about what many U.S. viewers think = "all over the world" here), so I can't imagine how they could possibly incorporate either Hub or Rift except as a throwaway expository reference. Maybe not even that, as it sounds like they can just as well do an alien-hunting show or whatever the new plotline will be without involving questions of time and thus the Rift in it at all--particularly since there's no hint there'll be any Whovian connection remaining at all.
"But considering what Torchwood was and what it's become (and certainly in view of where it started on Who) - why not just slap a new name on the damned thing and be done with it?"
Just plain old branding, I assume, so he can keep the people who started watching the old version as well as pick up the new.