SFX Magazine have a great interview with Russell T. Davies, focusing on his thoughts and plans for Torchwood's fourth series, which is to be a co-production between the BBC and Starz.
"It's a new model for the future, of BBC Worldwide actually becoming a production partner and making stuff for themselves. Their big thing in America is Dancing With The Stars, which is the American Strictly Come Dancing. They sell that format all over the world, but they actually make that for American television and it's hugely successful, more successful than Strictly is -- this year it overtook American Idol for the first time ever. So that's part of building up a production base here, of taking British ideas -- and new ideas -- and making them on a worldwide scale. It's a really good ambition, I think, and it's going to have to be the case more and more. If you look at things like Dickens adaptations and Cranford, they haven’t been able to afford themselves for decades -- they're all made with money from Boston and stuff like that. Co-partner funding has been the future for decades now." Continue reading...
