TORCHWOOD: MIRACLE DAY Premiere Date and Poster Revealed

TV Starz by Joey Paur

I'm really excited for this new series Torchwood: Miracle Day series. I just hope it turns out to be as good as the origianl BBC series. 

John Barrowman will return as Captain Jack Harkness and Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper, along with new cast members. The series will take on a more international scope. The new story will shift from the U.K. to North America.

BBC Worldwide Prods. executive vp Jane Tranter had this to say previously,

This gives 'Torchwood' the chance to feel like a real global drama, The story of 'Torchwood' will impact worldwide humanity and not just a small area of the U.K. This will scale it up.

The creator of the series Russell T. Davies added,

It's not a new version, it's not a reboot. It's not going to be 'Lost' and take 20 years to find out what's going on. It's going to have a most remarkable conclusion after 10 episodes.

The series focuses on a covert branch of the government that deals with aliens and alien artifacts. It had three seasons that aired on BBC and in the U.S. on BBC America.

Here's the official press release with all the details of the series:

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, Bill Pullman and, in an extended guest role, Lauren Ambrose 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.

 

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