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BBC Announces Adult Doctor Who Spin-Off
Dogtanian writes "The BBC has just announced a new 'Doctor Who' spin-off called 'Torchwood'. It is intended to be more adult in tone, and will follow a team investigating alien activities in modern-day Britain. Described as a cross between 'The X-Files' and 'This Life', it will feature Captain Jack, the bisexual time-travelling conman who featured in a number of recent Who episodes. The BBC are likely hoping that this spin-off will be more successful than 'K9 and Company'. The title is an anagram of a popular British sci-fi series, by the way."
Really? Because I was gonna guess "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Good thing you came along and posted that or I would have been really embarassed.
Don't be silly. There aren't enough o's in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
"BBC Announces Adult Doctor Who Spin-Off"
And here I was hoping for some quality sci-fi T&A, a la US Spice Channel. Serves me right for RTFA, back to Seven-of-Nine for my sci-fi kitten-killing adventures.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
"Elisabeth, come in here!"
"Doctor it's so dark in here, where are you?"
"Over here in the corner."
"I can't see.."
"I have a torch in my pocket. Come and get it. Yes.. a little to the left.. yes, there it is. That's a good girl."
*shriek* "That's your KNOB!!"
"No baby, that's my TORCHWOOD..heh heh heh."
You've obviously missed 'Hotrod Cow' which is the latest greatest thing to come out of the UK.
I think he might be trisexual. Indeed, someday they might run across an alien race where there are three sexes. And this fellow would most likely want to perform some sort of intercourse with each gender. Thus he would become a trisexual.
In any case, that is a pretty adult issue to deal with. I mean, society as a whole struggles today with the idea of homosexuality, let alone bisexuality. Toss trisexuality into the mix and we're in a different cricket field.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
"OK, lay it on us, what's your idea?"
"well, there's this bisexual time-travelling conman...."
(awkward silence)
"...and that's it!"
"Brilliant! Here's a bag of moneys!"
will feature Captain Jack, the bisexual time-travelling conman
Just when you thought British TV couldn't get any worse...
So... BBC is going to do an "Adult" show called "Touchwood" with some bi-sexual Captain, his K9 and Company... ....
And this is somehow NOT one of the signs of the Apocalypse.
Very well then.
Jack: I'm measuring the Tardis for The Doctor for a block transfer computation. Would you give me a leg up, Mr. Humphries?
Mr Humpries: Why, YES, I'd be delighted!
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There is no 'h' in "Doctor Who". Try again.
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The title is an anagram of a popular British sci-fi series, by the way.
Choowd Rot was one of my favourites!
"There is no 'h' in "Doctor Who". Try again.
/.-esque sarcasm yet, really, can anyone really be serious with that statement. Ah, /. can be so hard on me some days. I need a nap.
I don't know how to answer this. I am really struggling here. I sense no
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Or maybe it was based on the pseudo-reality TV futuristic wood chopping show, "How To Cord".
Or since they mentioned it would be adult, maybe it derived from "Rod To Chow"
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yes, but can he get me high, and take me to my special island?
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Why is there no "-1, Stupid"?
"BBC Announces Adult Doctor Who Spin-Off" I have to admit I sat there after a double-take wondering "What exactly did this adult doctor spin off? Something like a British WebMD? Why is he an adult doctor? Then I finally read the description, and decided it didn't actually help as much as I thought it would.
This is what you get when you let a Public beaurocracy do anything. They get it half right.
Bisexual is good. Man is bad. Who wants to look at an ugly man? Men are ugly. If it were up to a private organisation, it would feature a beautiful bisexual woman. Women are beautiful. Men are ugly.
Damn beaurocrats.
What's more, being a Brit, I have to pay for it by law :-(
If I want to watch the bisexual women on the commercial channel, I have to pay even more.
Damned government beaurocracy.
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Because it would be redundant :)
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That sounds like the start to a bad joke, with the punch-line "because they've just been to Swansea".
"I'm bigger on the inside than I am on the outside. Rrrowrr."
As opposed to the main Dr Who show that 95% of Americans respond "Dr WHO?" when asked...
Augh! For the sake of the children, no left handed freaks. Left handedness is a choice, and it's the wrong choice! We're sending impressionable, young, tender children the wrong message if we have movies with left handers. It's just wrong!
No. I'm just an overtired idiot.
Mod it down so that it just goes away, please.
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"the way Captain Jack was written, it was pretty hard to forget, even for a moment, that he was continuously randy for anything vaguely warm and moving."
;)
Sorry, for a second there I thought you meant "Kirk"
England, where crossdressers are hilarious (see Family Guy), has now decided on a Doctor Who spinoff that features a bisexual. Don't worry BBC. I won't be getting the torrent of that show.
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