The BBC and Starz Entertainment, today announced new cast, plot and character details for the new series of Torchwood.
– First is the name change from Torchwood: New world to Torchwood: Miracle Day.
– It will premier this July.
– Cast
– Mekhi Phifer (ER and Lie To Me) as Rex Matheson, a C.I.A.operative.
– Bill Pullman (Independence Day) as Oswald Danes, a convicted child killer who survives his own execution to become the most infamous man on the planet.
– Alexa Havins as Esther Drummond, a deskbound C.I.A agent
– Arlene Tur as Dr Vera Juarez, a Washington D.C. surgeon
– John Barrowman and Eve Myles will return in their roles as Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper respectively.
– Mekhi Phifer (ER and Lie To Me) as Rex Matheson, a C.I.A.operative.
– Bill Pullman (Independence Day) as Oswald Danes, a convicted child killer who survives his own execution to become the most infamous man on the planet.
– Alexa Havins as Esther Drummond, a deskbound C.I.A agent
– Arlene Tur as Dr Vera Juarez, a Washington D.C. surgeon
– John Barrowman and Eve Myles will return in their roles as Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper respectively.
– The 10-episode installment has been written by a team led by Torchwood creator, Russell T Davies, and produced by BBC Worldwide Productions.
The plot of Miracle Day (SPOILERS):
- One day, nobody dies. All across the world, nobody dies. And then the next day, and the next, and the next, people keep aging — they get hurt and sick — but they never die. The result: a population boom, overnight. With all the extra people, resources are finite. It’s said that in four months’ time, the human race will cease to be viable. But this can’t be a natural event – someone’s got to be behind it. It’s a race against time as C.I.A. agent Rex Matheson investigates a global conspiracy. The answers lie within an old, secret British institute. As Rex keeps asking “What is Torchwood?”, he’s drawn into a world of adventure, and a threat to change what it means to be human, forever.
