BBC Rponds to Complats that Torchwood is Too Gay

'TORCHWOOD' GAY SCEN NOT MEANT TO E OFFENCE, SAYS BBC

The BBC hs back at plats that sci-fi drama Torchwood featur too much gay ntent. * torchwood gay scene episode *

When scribg his approach to pictg sexualy Torchwood, Davi told the Gay Tim October 2006: "Whout makg polil or dull, this is gog to be a very bisexual program. I want to knock down the barriers so we n't fe which of the characters is gay. We need to start mixg thgs up, rather than thkg, 'This is a gay character and he'll only ever go off wh men.

The BBC has rpond to plats that Torchwood: Miracle Day featur "too much gay ntent". "We've received plats om some viewers who feel there is too much gay ntent Torchwood, " the rporatn said. "The BBC explaed that the dience have known John Barrowman's "tablished character" Capta Jack Harkns "to be promiscuo and bi-sexual", explag that "we felt the ntent was jtified terms of the ntext and characters and would be wh the expectatns of regular viewers" nclud: "We aim to pict relatnships whether heterosexual or homosexual an hont and realistic way.

TORCHWOOD: JOHN BARROWMAN'S GAY SEX SCENE TO BE AXED FOR BBC BUT WILL AIR US

A gay sex scene on BBC's Torchwood between actor John Barrowman and another man received 500 viewer plats amid 3.4 ln episo aired last week the U.K. -- the scene was a flashback featurg Barrowman's "omnisexual" character Capta Jack Harkns bed wh an Italian immig... * torchwood gay scene episode *

However, was nfirmed that a "sequence of gay sex" om a later episo will be broadst. Too gay for the UK: John Barrowman's explic sex scene Torchwood is to be axed for BBC broadst, but will air US A gay sex scene has been brand too sensatnal to air on Brish televisn - spe the US optg to broadst Amerins are notor for their strong censorship, yet on this ocsn UK televisn boss have been BBC will axe the lewd act om an upg episo of Torchwood: Miracle Day.

Controversial: Sex scene, starrg John Barrowman, will be cut for BBC airg In the programme, John Barrowman's character Capta Jack - an immortal former n man om the future who liv on Earth - sleeps wh a show equently exam homosexual and bisexual relatnships, wh the ma star Barrowman an in among the gay and lbian muny. A source said: 'It wasn't that was a gay scene that worried people, but jt the fact that was such an explic sex scene full stop. 'Behd the meras, Barrowman is openly gay and has been wh the same partner for nearly two former Any Dream Will Do judge met Stt Gill 1993 while he was starrg a theatre productn of Rope - a play which Aled Hchck ma to a Christmas 2006, the pair beme civil partners.

GAY SEX SCENE NETS COMPLATS, BUT BBC WON'T APOLOGIZE

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Capta Jack first appeared as a character on Doctor Who, wh Barrowman's populary earng him a sp-off show of his is the first openly non-heterosexual character Doctor Who BBC me unr fire last month for airg an EastEnrs episo featurg a naked gay uple bed together.

GAY SCENE CUT FROM UK TORCHWOOD

A gay sexscene on BBC's Torchwood between actor John Barrowman and another man received 500 viewer plats amid 3. Bra, has clud repeated gay romance story l. Recently, was revealed that the BBC cut a separate gay sex scene for Brish dienc but kept them tact for Amerin viewers.

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Bisexual Capta Jack Harkns has a gay romp wh a barman.

SABC1 TO AIR UNCENSORED GAY SEX SCENE

Stuff like that is almost pletely unnecsary a sci-fi show, and seeg as gay people are the mory, mak sense to go wh what the majory dience would want. In the past, a far greater number of heterosexual sex scen have been cut/toned down for TV than gay scen, but if this was a straight scene I scerely doubt anybody would be bchg about beg cut que so much.

I thought some Amerin stat still didn't accept gay marriage, and gays general, and yet the UK is the one that has the gay b cut....

If some retards want to ***** and pla bee two gay guys are gog at then they'll jt have to ***** and pla whilst everyone else prov they've got a mental age of more than 5. Numero gay sex scen have been shown on the BBC, cludg prev seasons of Torchwood. The issue wh sex isn't that volv gay sex (gay characters/sex aren't even vaguely ntroversial on UK tv), but that is before the watershed.