Torchwood Starz, Torchwood BBC and Tonight’s the night

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The cult of “celebrity” paralyses the BBC once more.

…“the role of the schedule in television personality performance” [James Bennet, 2011:122] is crucial. Primetime personalities perform ‘niceness’, while post-9pm or post-watershed UK TV personalities perform explicitness and irreverence. Bennett discusses Graham Norton’s mobilisation of sexuality in The Graham Norton Show versus his reduction to “fairy godmother” in How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria (ibid). And right now, in the UK TV context, John Barrowman finds himself Norton-ed, or split into two incarnations.

But the Tachyon TV commentators know how to deal with this…

The textbook response to questions like this, of course, is: ” *shakes fist* Barrowman! *shakes fist*”