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[catsidhe]

"Spiderman3 is plain silly" ... says George Lucas.

Mim's reaction was to LOL muchly. Pot accuses Kettle of excess carbon coverage.
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On other (old) news, Mim found out a while ago that an Australian channel has aquired the rights to the Torchwood series.

Everyone I mentioned this to, everyone, said "yay!", then followed with "... who?"

"Channel 10," I reply, to which everyone, everyone, without exception, replied with an expletive.

Expect Torchwood to go the way of Battlestar Galactica: three-quarters of a series with mind-boggling hype at prime time, then bumped by a Big Brother special event (where one of the in- house-mates finally goes completely postal and starts laying about with a five-iron, and no-one can blame them), then pushed to 11:00pm on a Wednesday. Well, 11:00pm +/- half an hour, until it is pushed to 12:10 at night, on whatever weeknight they can find a slot, where it will randomly occilate until it loses the last person able to actually watch two episodes in sequence, at which point it will be cancelled without warning (because of lack of ratings, for some reason) and replaced by repeats of Joker Poker.

Remember Andromeda? Anyone try to keep track of Farscape? ST:DS9? ST:VOY? ST:ENT? Yes, I know not all of these were perpetrated by 10. But 10 is the worst of them, by far. I mean, they all display nothing but unmitigated contempt for the misguided schmucks who actually try to watch their programming, but Channel 10 actually follows you home and pisses in your shoes while you sleep, such is their evident disgust of their own audience.

So our advice, Mim's and mine, is that if you actually want to watch Torchwood, watch the first episode on 10 (don't worry, there'll be a fanfare to warn you), then get the whole thing on DVD.

Or get the first series on DVD now, while they are showing the, what: 2nd, 3rd? in England now.

Comments

[drjon.livejournal.com]

> Or get the first series on DVD now, while they are showing the, what: 2nd, 3rd? in England now.

2nd series starts next January.

[brong.livejournal.com]

... which is why we have a computer which watches TV for us, and it knows to record 10 minutes before and up to 1/2 hour after any show, especially on 10.

So long as their online guides don't actually lie, it will automatically find the program you want and record it.

(yes, this is still annoying hard to do and dubiously legal here in Australia, bah)

[enrobso.livejournal.com]

The heart-breaking part of this is that Torchwood is actually a series worthy of the Channel Ten treatment.

I so wanted it to be brilliant, but it is not. It's more watchable than Big Brother or Australian Idol but then, so is the bottom of a budgie's cage.

Don't shed any tears for Torchwood. It saddens me to say this, but it's rubbish.