has anyone told gwen and rtd or the revenge of ianto

[jsks.livejournal.com]

thought this would amuse you while looking for new torchwood stories at fanfiction net a ad popped up for torchwood with the title "the ianto jones show" in boldface and underlined. which makes me wonder has someone broke the news to gwen about the hit british drama coming to america starring the dead teaboy?

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[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, if only... we'd have sooo much fun!

[milady-dragon.livejournal.com]

That would be so awesome if it were true... *sigh*

[dr-doomsduck.livejournal.com]

who put out THAT ad, I'd like to thank them.

[bk_forever]

I wish! I'd watch that anytime!

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

I got the same ad when I googled 'eyeglasses GDL' the other day:
http://aviv-b.livejournal.com/107728.html

(I also googled 'Toshiko Sato for the LULZ and this did not come up).

How clueless do they have to be to want their ad to link with anyone looking for info on Iato or GDL. As we said when I was a teen - gag me with a spoon. And yes, you may steal the GLD pic, but I'm using the bunny slippers in a story cause I saw the first, LOL.

[mscatmoon.livejournal.com]

So wait a minute... I'm confused. Does this mean that Starz is using Gareth's name in ads to promote MD?? That's dispicable. (and is it even legal?). They must be really terrified that Gwenwood is going to fail.

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

Its tacky to say the least. Its certainly legal. Ads are often placed based on key words you google. But having Ianto and Gareth David Lloyd as key words is rather pathetic.

I have said from the beginning that I don't think that this is going to be a huge draw for Starz. They've already reversed themselves on making Netflix downloads available at the same time as airing (guessing they didn't get the subscription they hoped for) and now its going to be delayed by a week in the UK (guessing to avoid downloads off of BBC).

Now what defines a success to Starz is anyone's guess, but I wouldn't be surprised if RTD and BBC sold them with the large viewership numbers from BBCA from CoE. It will be interesting to see if the numbers are anywhere near as large in the US.

[jsks.livejournal.com]

the fact is that torchwood was bbc america highest rated show scoring higher then dr who. while it might be only 650,000 viewers these are the people that ad buyers want which is where tv makes it money. viewers mean fans, fans that rusty has insulted and mocked, are these same fans now willing to pay for their torchwood fix now that it has moved to a pay channel? while rusty's defenders point to the high numbers of coe the fact is even the bbc realized the numbers were soft. coe and then rusty's mocking of hardcore fans with the use of terms such as "9 hysterical women" lost the fan base leaving only causal viewers who might or might not watch on 'free' tv but are they willing to pay for that privilige now? causal fans don't buy the dvds, fan magazines & books and attend the comic cons much less subscribe to a 3rd tier cable channel.
the fact that rusty has sold starz on his little 'cult' show built around the amazing mary sue aka gwen but all fans want to talk about is ianto and how much they hated coe doesn't bode well. that the bbc feels the need to air pre coe radio plays with a live ianto before the awesomeness of gwenwood ..............

[kaitelynn.livejournal.com]

To me there is a serious difference between watching TW on BBCA which I got with my regular cable than paying an extra 10 bucks a month to watch Gwenwood on Starz...I've only paid to get an extra channel once and that was Showtime to see Queer as Folk, but Showtime had other things on it that I wanted to see, unlike Starz...then again, maybe RTD thought he was like an old fashioned drug dealer...give the customer the stuff for free first and then, once you got them hooked, make em pay for their fix...unfortunately for him and Starz, he gave us the good stuff for free and we don't want to pay for the crap

[junoharkness.livejournal.com]

Does anyone have a pic of this? I've been looking around and can't find one and LJ won't let me view comments