Torchwood - Season 2 Confirmed!

ixoy

Yup folks the press release is out from the BBC:

BBC Three's Torchwood is back for a second series but this time it will premiere exclusively on BBC Two as confirmed by Jane Tranter, Controller of BBC Fiction, and BBC Two Controller Roly Keating.

Starring John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori and Gareth David-Lloyd, Torchwood has captivated audiences and smashed records.

It attracted an audience of 2.4 million viewers for the broadcast of its first two episodes - securing the highest-ever audiences for a BBC Three programme and the highest-ever ratings for a non-sport programme to air across all channels in digital history.

Created by award-winning writer Russell T Davies, with Chris Chibnall as co-producer and lead writer, the high-octane sci-fi thriller follows a team of modern day investigators as they use alien technology to solve crime, both alien and human.

Set in Cardiff, Torchwood delves into the unknown - battling against the impossible in the highly volatile underworld of savage aliens and monsters whilst trying to maintain their every day lives.

Roly Keating said: "Inventive, intelligent and unpredictable, Torchwood is a brilliant piece of 21st century fantasy drama. I'm delighted that its second series will be premiering on the channel."

Julian Bellamy, Controller of BBC Three, said: "Breaking all records on BBC Three is no mean feat and we've been proud to help build Torchwood into one of the most talked-about and eagerly-anticipated series of recent years."

Jane Tranter said: "Torchwood is a modern and innovative drama that has truly captured the imagination of its audience, and we are very excited that there will be more of the adrenaline-fuelled, action-packed adventures of our team of Torchwood heroes."

Russell T Davies said: "The whole team is bristling with ideas and we are delighted that Cardiff is going to be home to more monsters and mayhem."

Torchwood will be executive produced by Julie Gardner and Russell T Davies.

Filming is due to start in Cardiff in Spring 2007 and the series will hit screens later next year.

The remaining four episodes in the current series will continue to transmit on Sundays at 10pm on BBC Three and Wednesday nights at 9pm.

Inventive, intelligent and unpredicatable eh? Well I certainly never predicted some of the roll eye moments I've seen so far and umm maybe the intelligent bit is some sort of subversive agenda to undermine our tolerance level to some cheesy dialgoue? Inventive in the way it gets so many of the characters to shag each other...

Anyhow given the less than enthralled response here, who'll be around for Season 2? I will be but anyone else?

BuffyBot

Meh. Maybe. Probably not.

secret_squirrel

It still has possibilities imo.

Lose the Range Rover - its desperately sad.

More consistent writing, and plotting.

Less after watershed shock for titillation rather than plot/character developement.

It could be good. Tbh thats what I find most frustrating about it.

Its like they are trying to fit several series worth of character development into 1 series.

Hopefully a second series will allow them to calm down a bit and allow the stories and characters to develop.

polly oliver

Yeah. The concept behind the show is good. Hell even the concepts behind some of the episodes are good. But the ambition to have everybody have a gay snog by the end of series one plus other post watershed unnecessaryness makes it look a bit like it was written by a bunch of seventeen year olds whose mum has just let them out for the first time ever. It was all a big dissapointment really. I'll probably tune in for the firrst few episodes, but if it does't get any better...

Stark

ixoy wrote:

Torchwood is a modern and innovative drama

Sounds like a bad IBM poster.

popebenny16

I'll stick with it, hopefully it'll get better.

This weeks one was good, sort of.

But I'm not going to post on it till it hits BBC2.