John De Lancie To Appear On TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY

John de Lancie, who previously appeared in the Star Trek series The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager as Q, will appear in Torchwood:  Miracle Day, according to a tweet by Jane Espenson, one of the show's writers.  There's no word yet on his role in the series, but this is interesting news.  De Lancie appeared in the last season of Breaking Bad, and I can't wait to see what he adds to Torchwood.

Here's the synopsis:

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.

The series will also star John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness, Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper, Kai Owen as Rhys Williams, and Bill Pullman as Oswald Danes.  It premieres on Starz July 8.