{"id":11124,"date":"2007-04-04T00:29:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T07:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/04\/04\/torchwood-squee.html"},"modified":"2007-04-04T00:29:25","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T07:29:25","slug":"torchwood_squee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/04\/torchwood_squee.html","title":{"rendered":"Torchwood! Squee!<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Coming, not to SciFi, but to BBC America<\/a>!  Bravo!<\/p>\n

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Exciting news from BBC AMERICA\u2019s press department hit the wires this morning: the entire channel is undergoing a \u201cradical makeover\u201d later this year. The channel will now \u201cfocus exclusively on bringing U.S. audiences the very best in contemporary British programs – including a greater emphasis on our world renowned news coverage,\u201d according to our new head honcho, Garth Ancier. Lots of great acquisitions to announce, including MI-5<\/i> (Spooks to you UKers), the long-running youth soap Hollyoaks<\/i> (which I love), Hotel Babylon<\/i>, the new Jennifer Saunders comedy The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle<\/i>, Doctor Who<\/i> spinoff Torchwood<\/i>, and new seasons of Hex<\/i>, Life On Mars<\/i>, and Doctor Who<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Though that raises the issue of whether SciFi will carry Doctor Who<\/em>, too.  As well as the question of … what was the previous BBC America mission\/focus?<\/p>\n

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(via Boulder Dude<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Coming, not to SciFi, but to BBC America!  Bravo! Exciting news from BBC AMERICA\u2019s press department hit the wires this morning: the entire channel is undergoing a \u201cradical makeover\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9847,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/20\/carrying_a_torchwood.html","url_meta":{"origin":11124,"position":0},"title":"Carrying a Torchwood","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Oct-06 1:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The BBC has formally premiered the series Torchwood, a \"grown-up\" sexy urban SF spin-off of Doctor Who. 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