Russell T. Davies has announced new details about Torchwood: The New World, the fourth season of the Doctor Who spin off, Torchwood.
It will be set two years after Children of Earth ended, and will be set globally rather than in Cardiff, since Torchwood Three was destroyed after the events of last season. According to Davies, the characters “had no base, no authority and no mission… except to survive. They’re very much underground [now] and trying to survive. They’ve taken extreme actions. They have friends, they have enemies and they have betrayals.”
Some more information is already known from a Starz press release back in August. The remaining three characters will return: the immortal leader Jack Harkness, former police woman Gwen Cooper, and her husband Rhys Williams. As the series takes place two years after the events of last season, Gwen will have given birth to her and Rhys’ child. New cast members will be added, including a CIA agent named Rex Matheson, who has not been cast yet.
Some of the episodes will take place in the United States, including Washington D.C., but it has not been announced where filming will occur once they start shooting early next year. The season will be a ten episode mini-series, and will air on BBC One in the UK and Starz in the US next summer.
