Series 4 (Torchwood)

Series 4 of Torchwood known as Miracle Day, originally subtitled 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 Ester Katsui, Bill Pullman as Oswald Jones and Arlene Tur as Vera Juarez. It will be set partially in Wales and the United States of America.

Primary cast

 * Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
 * Gwen Cooper - Eve Myles
 * Rhys Williams - Kai Owen
 * Rex Matheson - Mekhi Phifer

Secondary cast

 * Andy Davidson - Tom Price
 * Esther Katusi -Alexa Havins
 * Oswald Jones - Bill Pullman
 * Vera Juarez - Arlene Tur

Guest stars

 * TBA - Dichen Lachman

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
 * John Shiban
 * Doris Egan
 * Jane Espenson (3 Episodes)
 * John Fay
 * Doris Egan

Broadcast dates

 * Series 4 will premiere on 1 July, 2011 on both BBC1 in the UK and Starz in the US at 21:00.

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...

At the 2011 Critics Choice Awards, Russell T. Davies said, that Series 4 "...will show a population boom as for six days, no one dies on the planet." And that Jack's immortality would be involved.

Rumours

 * Alonso Frame will appear.
 * James Marsters has stated he would like to return as John Hart for the new series.
 * It has been hinted that Ianto, who was killed off in the Series 3 episode Children of Earth: Day Four may come back.
 * Torchwood Three will not retrieve the SUV, strengthened by the fact that the SUV used for filming was sold at an auction at Bonhams on 24/02/10 for £18,000.