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Torchwood is popular in the English-speaking North American continent; in fact, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation helped to finance the series, as they had the revived production of Doctor Who in 2005. On 2 April 2007, BBC America had acquired the rights to broadcast the series in the United States.[138] The series started on 8 September 2007;[139] the initial broadcast of the series was tied-in to a "radical makeover" of the channel that was to occur later in 2007.[138] The second series started on BBC America 26 January 2008,[140] and the third on 20 July 2009.[17] Torchwood has become one of the higher rated programmes for BBC America with its first series première in September 2007 attracting an audience of almost half a million viewers.[141] HDNet acquired the US high definition rights for the first 26 episodes (Series 1 and 2) and began airing Series 1 episodes on Monday evenings, starting 17 September 2007.[142] On Monday 11 February 2008 HDNet began showing Series 2 episodes.
The Canadian network CBC was a co-producer of series one.
The above is a snip from wiki... it was a BBC/CBC co production.
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