Gwen on Watch

[msjaybee.livejournal.com]

Miracle Day is back on our screens! Yes, RTD's global success is gracing the airwaves once more! On the Beeb, you ask? After all, the BBC repeated it's hugely popular dramas Ask The Midwife and Death In Paradise only 6 months after they were first shown. Miracle Day has been absent for a year.

No.

Miracle Day is on Watch, a small digital channel that shows only repeats. Now some of the programmes on Watch are classic comedies and can still be found on the BBC, but dramas? The normal procedure is that once a drama finds it's way onto Watch, the Beeb has no intention of airing it again, at least not primetime. Many of Watch's dramas are at lest 10 years old; Miracle Day is being show alongside them.

RTD must be thrilled.  Gwenwood remains as popular as ever.

Comments

[jsks.livejournal.com]

How the mighty have fallen. Chuckles is joy that gwenwod is still a total dud.

[jennelldhalrbj.livejournal.com]

I have never watched Watch. This doesn't make me want to start.

[charie-caphine.livejournal.com]

No surprise there, but makes me sad about Torchwood. It's been so fun once. That's what hurts the most, right: when great potential goes to waste? Or worse than just to waste, as case may be. 'Thanks', RTD.

[jennelldhalrbj.livejournal.com]

That's the thing about Torchwood. So much potential ruined by RTD and everyone let him do it.

[ruby-took.livejournal.com]

I agree completely. There are plenty of shows that I don't watch because I don't think they're particularly well written, don't have interesting storylines or whatever, and it doesn't bother me much. But Torchwood could have been so good. Brilliant, even. And unique. It had the potential to be one of the best shows on TV, which makes it all the more tragic that all that potential has been thrown away.

[jsks.livejournal.com]

Torchwood could have been so much more than rusty's gwenwood ever could dream of being and that is what breaks my heart.

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

Poor Gwenwood Torchwood. RIP.

[sandysan2013.livejournal.com]

RIP in right. It is a shame that so much potential was wasted and that we're left w/only two seasons to remember it by. I really wish RTD had found another vehicle to launch Eve's international career. This show would have been better off w/o her. Gwen character played the most wrong notes, most consistently, in that orchestra.

[raynewton.livejournal.com]

No, the Beeb has finally realised Gwenwood is crap and it'd be a waste of time showing it aain. RIP torchwood 1 & £, the show I loved

[jennelldhalrbj.livejournal.com]

This has seemed to result in people making more Gwen/Jack vids and putting them on youtube. UGH.

[junealready.livejournal.com]

I think Watch also showed some of the DT episodes of Doctor Who not long ago. It also premiered Primeval (before it was shown on ITV) and is currently showing 'Grimm'.

Watch tends to heavily edit BBC shows so it can fit in more adverts (for example it decimated the DT episode of 'Midnight')

[mercury-pheonix.livejournal.com]

*and cut the Jack/Ianto scene/kiss out of 'To The Last Man'.