Look at the success of Fringe. American audiences seem easily ready for the weird sci-fi nature of TW. And while FOX might want to tone down the “intensity” of the sex, American audiences would eat up a sexy sci-fi show.

The thing that bothers me is the character of Captain Jack. Barrowman MADE the show. Period. Therefore this CAN NOT be an American Branch of TW. It must be a remake. Captain Jack from the 51st century fights aliens in America. I think that’s the only way it would work.

At least I think so. But I rather see TW USA as a new TW station than a remake of the original series. That will never work.

And I guess that if John Barrowman signs up for this we won’t be seeing TW returning for a fourth season on the BBC, right?

It was just the bizarre stuff I didn’t like. For instance, I didn’t care for The Master as a snake monster. But that was likely just Fox feeling they needed to change stuff. They did that a lot in those days. See also the Generation X pilot.

Obviously the “You can’t have two Doctors at the same time” issue would be big. But I never said that I thought they would work together at the same time. Just that Doctor Who would still make a better American show than Torchwood.

Torchwood, on the other hand, is certainly very British in its current incarnation, but I think it could be adapted for American audiences in a good way. To me, losing the UK flavor from Torchwood wouldn’t be as big of a deal because you are most likely creating all new characters in an American branch of Torchwood. That means it can still exist in the same universe as the UK Torchwood without supplanting it. There’s only one Doctor, so doing an American version of the show is problematic at best, especially when the UK show is still running.

Again, I haven’t seen very much of Torchwood, only five episodes or so. Perhaps seeing more of the show would change my evaluation of it’s adaptability, but I just think that the concept appears to be more adaptable on the surface than Doctor Who does.

Meanwhile I think that Doctor Who could easily be set anywhere, and doesn’t have to have a British feel to it at all. The Fox movie was a bad example, because they Americanized things that they didn’t need to. But it was a good example that the right actor could totally pull off an American run. There is nothing that attaches The Doctor to the UK other than the fact that it is where he almost always is.

I think the funny thing is that they are going to have to completely tone down the show for American audiences. I haven’t got past season 1 yet, but it seems like every other show is about sex. Straight sex, gay sex, alien sex. Sex, sex, sex, sex. Besides being rather annoying, I’m not sure that would fly too well on Fox.

There are rumors going around that they want to remake Doctor Who as well, and I think that would be virtually impossible to do without completely changing the nature of the show and the character.