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tencrush ([personal profile] tencrush) wrote2010-07-13 09:20 am
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Spoilers for Torchwood USA

Casting call reposted at ONTD:

TORCHWOOD
Episodic
1 Hour Drama
BBC Show that will air on STARZ
UNION

Executive Producers: Julie Gardner, Russell T Davies
Writer: Russell T Davies
Director: TBD
Casting Directors: John Frank Levey, Melanie Burgess
Work Dates: starting approx Jan 12, 2011 for 10 eps
Location: Tentatively Los Angeles

SUBMIT ELECTRONICALLY

[REX MATHESON] CAUCASIAN, Late 20s, CIA agent, a fast-tracked high-flyer. And he knows it! Rex is fast, sharp, smart, clever, and when the situation demands it, ruthless. He's got a lethal sense of humor - he doesn't care if he makes enemies, he's too busy enjoying himself. But when Rex's life is put in danger, he feels his own mortality for the first time, and has to balance the demands of the job, and his duty to his country, against his desperate desire to survive. Though that doesn't defeat him - if anything, it makes him even more arrogant and unstoppable than ever. For Rex, all rules are off! Like him or loathe him, you can't miss him - and that's exactly how Rex wants things to be…..SERIES REGULAR

[ESTHER KATUSI] She's early 20s, a Watch Analyst at the CIA - it's one of the less glamorous jobs, filtering information to pass along the chain. But Esther's determined to better herself! She's still young, so the job hasn't made her cynical yet - she's still an optimist, ever hopeful, and her faith in mankind is sustained by her own Christianity. She's hopelessly in love with one of the CIA agents, Rex Matheson, though she'd never tell him. Nevertheless, she's no pushover - she's more than capable of thinking for herself, and can break the rules when she needs to. And when Esther's forced off the grid, and on the run, she learns to survive, fast. She turns out to be a natural, learning to fight and run with the best of them, without ever losing her essential good-hearted nature. Please submit actors of all races and ethnicities EXCEPT Caucasian. Recurring Guest Star. Will appear in many, or possibly all 10 episodes.

[OSWALD JONES] CAUCASIAN, Late 40s, a convicted murderer and pedophile. But he's no thug - this man is dangerously clever. Oswald escapes his sentence on a technicality, and finds himself becoming a media celebrity. And he's sharp enough to make the most of the situation, and profit from it. He's always thinking, always aware, always looking for the chance to promote himself - while living with the fact that many people want him dead. He appears to be wonderfully, genuinely repentant - but underneath, he's still boiling with lust and rage. And one day, he's going to lose control again. But this man is destined to become more important than even he could have foreseen, as terrifying events of worldwide significance begin to turn around him... Recurring Guest Star. Will appear in many, or possibly all 10 episodes.


I think Rex should be called Max Power. Shame he'll never know how much the non-white wimmens is pining for him, that's a nice storyline there, Russell. We've not seen that one before.

BUT HEY, RUSSELL, THE LOVEABLE ROGUEISH PEDOPHILE ANGLE?? LOVE IT. LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT, IT'LL BE TASTEFUL AND ARTY AND... I JUST LOVE IT. YOU'VE CONVINCED ME TO WATCH THIS SHIT THEY CANCELLED PARTY DOWN FOR. I'VE BEEN SWAYED BY THE JOLLY, SEXY, BROODING CELEBRITY PEDO. I'M IN! I'M IN, YOU HEAR ME! WHEN'S IT STARTING????

My favourite bit, apart from the obvious, is where it doesn't mention aliens or that it's sci-fi, anywhere. At all.

[identity profile] sbs-01.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
Excuse my stupidness but what site is ONTD? I may need to see this for myself to shake my head at the general awfulness of this crap.

[identity profile] furius.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
he's still boiling with lust and rage.

WTF!

I hope this is a joke...

[identity profile] qthewetsprocket.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
Shame he'll never know how much the non-white wimmens is pining for him, that's a nice storyline there, Russell. We've not seen that one before.

0_ô

It never ceases to amaze me that there really are some people out there who genuinely NEVER LEARN ANYTHING.

And btw, a character who's female, an ethnic minority, AND a Christian? Dear sweet gods of cipher-dom...how on earth is he going to find a way to make her commit suicide to save the plot every single week?

[identity profile] talulahk.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
fuck..........

I, just. no. just no.

Yeah.

pedophile? IN THE US? HAVE THEY LOST THEIR FUCKING MINDS?!!!!!!!!!!!

funny thing: i actually pay for STARZ in San Francisco. I can always stop, yes? :)
Edited 2010-07-13 08:05 (UTC)

[identity profile] dune-drd.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
W.T.F?

[identity profile] vertrauen.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
I was first going to go on a tirade on how we can't have a RTD show without a character with the last name of "Jones"...

and then I read the profile.

And threw up a bit in my mouth.

JULIE. YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE ONE WITH A GOOD HEAD ON HER SHOULDERS. WHY ARE YOU GREENLIGHTING THIS TRIPE?

I never watched Party Down, but if this is what caused its demise? FUCK YOU RUSTY. This makes me so glad he's out of my Who... or does he still have a majority say in SJA, since it's a RTD/Julie/Phil/Piers production?

God, I miss Phil. :(

[identity profile] dune-drd.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
Pedophiles are only valid ion TV when Gene Hunt beats the shit out of them. Fact.

I... think I could ignore the completely ott character summaries for the simple thing that it's such an American Thing to do, but... pedo? I could accept it if they got into it story-wise, but this is American SciFi, they SO won't

[identity profile] th-esaurus.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
RTD is sipping champagne and congratulating himself on another pre-emptive job well done AS WE TYPE.

[identity profile] nikki4noo.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
and as if Esther isn't a jewish enough name to begin with... See they are being totally multicultural and with no fails!

[personal profile] jo02 2010-07-13 09:19 am (UTC)(link)

I'm sorry - when did I fall into the Twilight Zone ???

[identity profile] talulahk.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
OH, ::blushing::, we've got nothing on the original English CoE & Italian Catholic pedophiles! You all invented them!

The actual crazy thing, STARZ isn't part of my extended cable package: I pay $4.99 a month for STARZ by itself(along $10.99 each for HBO & SHOWTIME)!

Its a very small cable television channel, and not a lot of people subscribe to it. It has nothing like HBO or Showtime subscribership. Will be interesting.

[identity profile] talulahk.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 09:27 am (UTC)(link)
Gene Hunt DOES rule. sooooo... Fact.

[identity profile] nikki4noo.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
I love how rusty's thought process went from well we had such a ratings success with all that child killing so lets go up a level from that. How can we do it? Pedophiles? Yeah, that's be awesome, especially if they are loveable. No one will get upset at all about the subject matter, particularly in the middle of america. Those same people who thought that Terry Pratchett's Mort was a real good idea for a film, they just needed to lose the 7ft Skeleton from the story.

[identity profile] furius.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
Is RTD looking for controversy? Esther the non-Caucasian Christian and a roguish pedophile- in the US?

Even on STARZ (the show that has Spartacus), this goes beyond "liberal" ...

[identity profile] nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
See, I got told that the US would never stand for his "unrequited black woman" shit. I never thought we would get to see if that was true.

Also WTF PEDO?

[identity profile] nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com 2010-07-13 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
He's a pedo but you can't help but love him!

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