Series 4 (Torchwood)

Series 4 of Torchwood, known as Miracle Day and originally called The New World, was a 10-part serialised series of Torchwood broadcast in summer 2011. It was written by Russell T Davies and co-produced by BBC Wales, BBC Worldwide and Starz Entertainment. It starred John Barrowman as Jack Harkness, Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper, Mekhi Phifer as Rex Matheson, Alexa Havins as Esther Drummond, Bill Pullman as Oswald Danes and Arlene Tur as Dr. Vera Juarez. It was set in both Wales and the US. The series covers an arc in which death ceases to exist on Earth.

Primary cast

 * Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
 * Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
 * Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
 * Rex Matheson - Mekhi Phifer
 * Esther Drummond - Alexa Havins
 * Oswald Danes - Bill Pullman

Secondary cast

 * Dr. Vera Juarez - Arlene Tur
 * Andy Davidson - Tom Price
 * Geraint Cooper - William Thomas
 * Mary Cooper - Sharon Morgan
 * Jilly Kitzinger - Lauren Ambrose

Guest stars

 * Lyn Peterfield - Dichen Lachman
 * Dr. Alicia Patel - Lena Kaur
 * Surveillance - Danny Szam
 * Guard - Daniel Adegboyega
 * Brian Friedkin - Wayne Knight
 * TBA - Ernie Hudson
 * TBA - Christopher Thomas Howell
 * Brad - Dillon Casey
 * TBA - Nana Visitor
 * TBA - John De Lancie

Casting notes

 * Prior to the US co-production being announced, James Marsters stated he would like to return as John Hart for the new series and Freema Agyeman stated there was still a possibility for her to return as Martha Jones. Neither character is expected to appear during the Miracle Day arc.
 * This series will feature a whole new cast of characters, with only four of the original characters returning (Gwen Cooper, Jack Harkness, Rhys Williams, and Andy Davidson), and only two of the original members of the Torchwood team returning, (Gwen Cooper and Jack Harkness).

Production

 * Wales Online have reported that filming for next year’s series of Torchwood: The New World, will begin in the US on January 11th, 2011, lasting for 7 months.
 * At the 2011 Television Critics Awards, Russell T. Davies announced that filming had been bumped up a day, starting on Monday, January 10.

Writers

 * Russell T Davies will write Episodes 1 & 10
 * John Shiban (Episode 6)
 * Doris Egan (Episode 2 )
 * Jane Espenson is writing episodes 3, 5, 7, and co-writing 8
 * John Fay (Episode 9)
 * Ryan Scott - will co-write Episode 8

Broadcast dates

 * Series 4 premiered 8th July 2011 on Starz in the US, and July 14, 2011 on BBC1 in the UK.

Television stories
Ten episodes have been confirmed for Series 4.

Series synopsis
When C.I.A. agent Rex Matheson investigates a global conspiracy, he finds himself unearthing a threat which challenges the entire Human race. The answers seem to lie within an old, secret British institute, known only as Torchwood. But Torchwood was destroyed, years ago, and the keys to the institute are held by its only two survivors - former Police Officer Gwen Cooper, who has long since disappeared along with her husband and child, and the mysterious Captain Jack Harkness, a man whose history seems to stretch back centuries.

With Rex under attack from all sides, in both the US and the UK, he soon discovers there are forces at work within every level of society, determined to stop Torchwood's return. As a chain of events across the world links together the most disparate and unlikely individuals - including a surgeon, a killer, senators and CEOs - a new Torchwood team takes shape. But this time, the threat is much closer to home, as they realize that their greatest enemy is mankind itself...

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.

Regular series

 * Note: for the first time in a Doctor Who franchise series, individual episode titles are not displayed on screen.

Rumours

 * Alonso Frame will appear.
 * It has been hinted that Ianto, who was killed off in the Series 3 episode Children of Earth: Day Four may come back. '
 * More of Jack's past will be revealed.
 * Prior to Starz confirming the writers for Series 4, two notable writers were rumoured to have written scripts for the season: A resume posted online and attributed to Andrew Cartmel indicated he had written an episode entitled "The Jinx" for Series 4 ; and a report of TV and film writer Bryan Fuller (House, Superman Returns) meeting with Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner in the summer of 2010 led to rumours that he, too, was writing an episode.

Trailer
The Trailer at the end of the first episode showed camps being made for people being kept alive by Miracle Day, cults growing up, Oswald Danes getting a cult following and claiming he knows the cause of the cause,  Jack kissing a man, Gwen gagged with plastic coils, and Oswald entering a tent while wearing a face mask, Gwen knocking a woman out on an aeroplane.