One Tardis spin-off too many?

The new Doctor Who spin-off show Torchwood launches on BBC3 on Sunday with John Barrowman reprising the role of Captain Jack Harness in the new show.

But the show comes hot on the heels of the announcement that producer Russell T Davies plans a second DW spin-off show early next year - The Sarah Jane Adventures - which will be aimed specifically at children and shown as part of the CBBC schedules.

In our latest tellytunes poll, we asked for your views on the spin-offs and the verdict was a strong "one too many" vote, with 57% of you saying that one spin-off would have been enough. 24% of voters said they welcomed the double dose of spin-offs while 19% felt that the Beeb were starting to just milk it for all its worth! (I wonder though if the vote many have been swayed more in favour of the multiple spin-offs if the second one wasn't Ye Olde Sarah Jane but rather the proposed-but-sadly-scrapped plan for the Rose spin-off instead!

We'll wait to see what the ratings say but it seems that the Beeb are edging their bets by launching the show on BBC3, although BBC2 repeats won't be far away.

And a further word of warning was issued today that would suggest that the Doctor Who brand is certainly not invincible. BBC Online bosses announced that its experiment during the latest series of Doctor Who to provide Tardisodes - exclusive one-minute episode trailers - to mobile phones had flopped with the service attracting little over 3,000 downloads per episode.

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~~steve~~
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