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So? BBC America doesn't automatically have the right to air anything that the BBC owns. Most of the money for this came from STARZ, so obviously Starz wants to be the one who airs it in the states. Besides, stars is a much better home for the show than BBC America ever was. BBC America completely butchered the show to stick in commercials, and then they edited it down heavily for content. (Honestly, after I first saw Torchwood on DVD, I was surprised by how much they said "fuck.") Torchwood is a Starz show now, so if you want to watch it in America, you have to either subscribe to Stars, watch it on Netflix, or by the DVDs when they come out.[[User:Gowron8472|Gowron8472]] <sup>[[User talk:Gowron8472|talk to me]]</sup> 04:23, October 3, 2011 (UTC) | So? BBC America doesn't automatically have the right to air anything that the BBC owns. Most of the money for this came from STARZ, so obviously Starz wants to be the one who airs it in the states. Besides, stars is a much better home for the show than BBC America ever was. BBC America completely butchered the show to stick in commercials, and then they edited it down heavily for content. (Honestly, after I first saw Torchwood on DVD, I was surprised by how much they said "fuck.") Torchwood is a Starz show now, so if you want to watch it in America, you have to either subscribe to Stars, watch it on Netflix, or by the DVDs when they come out.[[User:Gowron8472|Gowron8472]] <sup>[[User talk:Gowron8472|talk to me]]</sup> 04:23, October 3, 2011 (UTC) | ||
To clarify here, ''The BBC proper'' holds the rights, but it is only active in the UK. As I understand it, 'BBC America' is just another American TV network that happens to be funded by the BBC's non-UK commercial arm 'BBC worldwide' (it doesn't really have | To clarify here, ''The BBC proper'' holds the rights, but it is only active in the UK. As I understand it, 'BBC America' is just another American TV network that happens to be funded by the BBC's non-UK commercial arm 'BBC worldwide' (it doesn't really have many concrete links anymore; they simply have the knowledge of British TV to market it to you guys). As the BBC, Worldwide and Starz collaborated on this and Starz contributed the lions share of cash they get 'first dibs' in the US. BBC worldwide also partially funded, so it ''may'' turn up on BBCA ''in time -'' but not until Starz are well done with it. Incidently, part of the reason for the excessive adverts and editing on BBCA is precisely because of the commercial nature of the network - unlike the proper beeb (which doesn't do ad breaks or savage editing), BBC worldwide no longer recieves any UK money so has to make it through other methods; hence why a lot of shows that it the UK would be considered competitors to the BBC often show up on BBC America. Let's face it - this isn't the first time BBC Intellectual property has been 'sold off' to fund a return lol [[User:Baziel|Baziel]] <sup>[[User talk:Baziel|talk to me]]</sup> 05:24, October 3, 2011 (UTC) | ||
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