Green on Thursday #14

21Dec06

John Barrowman:

After a several-week hiatus, “Green on Thursday” returns with a bona fide bonerhound. Geeky readers will recognize him as the charismatic, rakishly pan-sexual Captain Jack Harkness from Russell T. Davies’ lively resurrection of the creaky Doctor Who series (and the star of its spin-off, Torchwood). North American readers — even those familiar with Doctor Who – can be forgiven for not knowing what Torchwood is because it’s not been scheduled for broadcast on this side of the Atlantic, even by the CBC, which just happened to co-produce the series. (Calls to the Corpse’s Audience Relations telephone-answerer were met with a perplexed “what was the name of that show again?”)

Rumour has it that Barrowman was up for the lead in a little series on NBC by the name of Will & Grace. The network opted for a less-homosexual actor, perhaps fearing audience rejection of a performer who goes home after a day of playing a homosexual unencumbered by actual homosexual sex, only to engage in actual homosexual sex.

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1 Jon on Dec 21st, 2006 said:

Rawr! Very sexy - especially his Apollo’s belt. I’ll have to watch more “Dr. Who”, apparently.
2 S. Woody White on Dec 22nd, 2006 said:

Uh-huh, he’s one sexy dude.

I had the pleasure of seeing him on-stage a few years ago, in Putting It Together (with Carol Burnett and Susan Egan, before the Broadway run, at the Mark Taper in LA). Yep, he lit up that stage. Even without taking his shirt off.

It may be just as well that he kept his shirt on. It turned out that I was sitting next to his proud parents! Very sweet couple, by the way.
3 ygg on Jan 5th, 2007 said:

Please tell me you’re downloading Torchwood. It’s fantastic. \o/ John Barrowman!
4 bstewart23 on Jan 5th, 2007 said:

Funny story about Torchwood. As you know, the closing credits state that it’s co-produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. An inquiry to the CBC, asking for air dates on this side of the Atlantic, was met with this response:

Thank you for taking the time to write to the CBC about ‘Torchwood’.
CBC Television is delighted to have the North American broadcast rights to Torchwood. Unfortunately, we do not as yet have a broadcast date in our schedule for this series and encourage you to continue to watch television listings and CBC promos for updates.

So, basically, the broadcast organization co-producing the show has no idea when it’ll be broadcast. I guess it’s not a funny story at all. Closer to fucking pathetic.

Of course, downloading the high-quality, Air-Farce-and-Tim-Horton’s-commercial-free BBC version would be wrong and bad. And wrong. But if one were to download it, one would find the show arrestingly omnisexual and enjoyable, even if it does promise considerably more than it delivers. And even if the boner which creator Russell T. Davies still has for Buffy is clearly visible.
5 dreamer on Apr 16th, 2007 said:

aww he’s so fit i wish he wunt gay LOL
6 izzy on May 1st, 2007 said:

Awwww, he is FIT and TOTALLY RIPPED!!!!!! I luv him I would do anything for his autograph…….and a snog!!!