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I WONDER if the BBC is beginning to regret scheduling the excellent Torchwood in the relatively rarefied setting of BBC2 (with a prior screening on digital channel BBC3 on Sundays). | I WONDER if the BBC is beginning to regret scheduling the excellent Torchwood in the relatively rarefied setting of BBC2 (with a prior screening on digital channel BBC3 on Sundays). | ||
| − | The first two episodes drew a healthy combined audience of almost five million from the two channels. Surely logic dictates that if it were shown on | + | The first two episodes drew a healthy combined audience of almost five million from the two channels. Surely logic dictates that if it were shown on BBC1 it should automatically attract a much bigger audience? |
But presumably old-fashioned television thinking decrees that a bit of gore, a whiff of bisexuality and the use of the occasional F-word might prove a turn-off for squeamish BBC1 viewers more used to the plastic Cockneys, social misery and cod-lesbianism of EastEnders. | But presumably old-fashioned television thinking decrees that a bit of gore, a whiff of bisexuality and the use of the occasional F-word might prove a turn-off for squeamish BBC1 viewers more used to the plastic Cockneys, social misery and cod-lesbianism of EastEnders. | ||
