The Stage publication has interviewed Julie Gardner, the executive producer of both Doctor Who and Torchwood - and asked her a very important question; why has Torchwood been delayed until 2008? Julie, it's over to you (so give us a good excuse!):
"Last year, we started filming in March and we were on air with 13 episodes from late September, which was just so, so hectic. And we didn’t really have enough time – it was absolutely frantic from day one of prep, it was all hands on deck.
And so, it just works for the BBC2 schedule that we can go in January. So it’ll just give us a little bit more time in our post-production. Which would be lovely, because we were delivering an episode every single week for transmission. It was incredibly tight. So it was just as well we didn’t have any last-minute technical difficulties last year!"
Torchwood season two is scheduled to begin filming Monday April 30th, with a broadcast window of January 2008 looking more and more likely.
UPDATE!
+ Alice Troughton to direct "The Sarah Jane Adventures" - see here.
+ Torchwood/Belonging trailer starring John Barrowman is now online
+ The BBC have signed a deal with Warner Distribution to release HD-DVDs and Blu-Ray disks. "Torchwood" could very well appear on these formats in the near future.
9 comments:
I'm a bit disapointed that it won't be on our screens earlier but at least they have more time to make it the best!
Can't wait till the next series. It's going to be so exciting!
Ahh well...at least, this way, we get Robin Hood October - January, Torchwood January - March, and then Doctor Who again! Decent Saturday night TV for practically the entire school year!
I thought that the trailer was really good, very funny.
The thing is, I have never heard of Belonging before now. I looked up on other sites and various other sources, but I can't particularly find much information about it. On it's BBC Wales website, it only goes back to series 4. And there isn't one of those introductory parts. Does anyone know of any sites that can tell you much more about it or where you can find out about the first series?
It is annoying that Torchwood won't be here till next year. It does, however, mean that they will be putting much more effort into creating and fine-tuning the show so that it should, hopefully be even better this year.
this next series is going to be better than ever and i can't wait!!!!!!!!!
A Quick update, A Trailer has been released featuring eve myles
Where can i see the trailer?!?!?!?!?!?
Ah well, only nine months left. Once the new DW series is over it'll be even shorter.
http://www.giagia.co.uk/?p=157
JB went to Geneva last week and visited CERN.
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