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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

Will Torchwood’s Miracle 6 Day delay encourage piracy?

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Looks like Torchwood: Miracle Day will be aired in the UK six days after screening in the US. Which means the hardcore fans will go at US pace, and not watch the UK airing. If it was ‘same day’ then you can just about get away with switching Twitter and Facebook off so you don’t get spoiled (which I have to do occasionally for a Grand Prix when I’m out and about on a Sunday), but there’s no way you can go dark for almost a week. So your choices are to either get spoiled online, or stop yourself being