Series 4 (Torchwood)

Series 4 of Torchwood, known as Miracle Day and originally called The New World, is a 10-part serialized series of Torchwood scheduled for broadcast in summer 2011. It is being written by Russell T Davies and produced by BBC Wales and Starz Entertainment. It will star John Barrowman as Jack Harkness, Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper with new characters Mekhi Phifer as Rex Matheson, Alexa Havins as Esther Drummond, Bill Pullman as Oswald Danes and Arlene Tur as Dr. Vera Juarez. It will be set partially in Wales and the United States of America. 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

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

Casting notes

 * James Marsters has stated he would like to return as John Hart for the new series.
 * Freema Agyeman has stated that there is still a possibility for her to return.
 * 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 3, 5, 7, and splitting the writing on Episode 8
 * John Fay (Episode 9)
 * Ryan Scott - will write half of Episode 8

Broadcast dates

 * Series 4 will premiere 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.

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.