Torchwood gay sex scene, edited for British viewers, still prompts 500 complaints according to tabloid

Alpha Airlock: Torchwood too gay for Britain?

Last Thursday's BBC broadcast of Torchwood, featuring an scene uncut on U.S. cable the week before but trimmed for Britain, prompted 500 complaints according to the Daily Mail, third-largest largest English language newspaper in the world, with a circulation of over two million and Britain's only tabloid in Britain with more than 50% female readership.

ATV Today reports:

The episode, Immortal Sins, featured flashbacks to 1920s New York where Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) fell in love with an Italian immigrant named Angelo (Daniele Favill). The flashbacks featured the two kissing and enjoying a steamy sex scene which, according to the Daily Mail, has upset some fans. Despite the fact that Torchwood: Miracle Day airs in a 9pm slot, therefore after the watershed, the gay sex scene has still prompted hundreds of complaints.

The article's authors, Ian Westhead and Dominic Knight, note that overnight ratings put the audience of the episode at 3.4 million viewers.”