Last year, Starz acquired the US television rights to the next installment of Torchwood, the popular spin-off to Doctor Who.
The premium channel will air the 10 episodes of season four beginning July 8th. BBC One will also air them in the UK this summer. John Barrowman and Eve Myles return as Captain Jack Harkness and Gwen Cooper, respectively.
Here’s the press release:
Starz Announces “Torchwood: Miracle Day” Premiere on Friday, July 8 at 10pm ET/PT
STARZ announced today that “Torchwood: Miracle Day” will premiere on Friday, July 8th at 10pm ET/PT. The US installment of the BBC smash hit series will star Mekhi Phifer (“ER,” “Lie to Me”), Bill Pullman (Independence Day, The Grudge) and, in an extended guest role, Lauren Ambrose (“Six Feet Under,” The Other Woman) and is currently in production in Los Angeles.
Bill Pullman, who portrays Oswald Danes, a former school teacher and convicted child killer, and Phifer, join “Torchwood” alumni John Barrowman (Capt. Jack Harkness) and Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper) in the series. Also joining the cast are Alexa Havins (When in Rome, Fat Girls) as Esther Drummond, a deskbound CIA employee who dreams of active duty and who suddenly finds herself running alongside Jack, Gwen and Rex; and Arlene Tur (“Crash,” Eat Pray Love) as Dr. Vera Juarez, a Washington D.C. surgeon, who finds herself on the frontline of medical care on “Miracle Day” advising the government think-tanks on the best course of action for the world’s population.
Torchwood begins with a day when 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 month’s 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.
What do you think? Are you a Torchwood fan? Will you watch it on Starz?
big time watch it!!!! was sick when it cancelled. please bring it back anywhere. keep me posted.
Love it! Is this a repeat, or new stories?
yes will watch it. Loved the show each week. Couldn’t wait to see what happened every Friday. Can’t wait to see what happens next. Loved the idea people weren’t dying. It was so si fi. I just love si fi shows.
I am a TORCHWOOD fan who has just finished watching the final episode of TORCHWOOD, Miracle Day. I LOVED IT! I loved that Starz ran each episode again afterward so we could review it to digest it in full. It ran like a mystery story … if you blinked . . . You just had to see it again. It all came together in the end in a BRILLIANT final episode. Pretty scary stuff … I totally LOVED it.
PLEASE, PLEASE RENEW THIS SERIES!!!
I am a Torchwood fan, but do not suscribe to this channel so I will not be able to watch it. Too bad!!!
What the H$@@ is STARZ? Never even heard of it. What a mistake. Phooey, guess we’ll have to wait till it gets to PBS.
I am glad to see it back in production, but I think it sucks that it’s going to be on a premium channel that I do not subscribe to! WTF!