Yes, it really has been almost two years since Torchwood: Children of Earth graced our screens, leaving us battered and broken and Captain Jack-less. Now, finally, finally, it is almost nearly time for us to welcome him back into our homes.
Starz is helping us to ease the transition by eking out little bits and pieces of previews as well as behind-the scenes footage and interviews. Now they have compiled it all into one eleven-minute-long promo, which we are happy to present to you right…. NOW:
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But wait, that’s not all! As we told you in May, Eliza Dushku (Dollhouse, Tru Calling, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is voicing a motion comic to accompany this new installment of Torchwood, along with Eve Myles and John Barrowman.
Zap2It now reports that the project, entitled Web of Lies, will be more than a motion comic; it will be sold through an iTunes app, and will feature interactive gameplay. The first installment will be free and will be available before the premiere. and the installments that follow will be available for three-for-$0.99, or $2.99 for the complete package, and will be released to coincide with the weekly episodes of Torchwood: Miracle Day.
Finally, Russell T. Davies gave an extensive interview to Den of Geek in conjunction with the UK launch of Torchwood: Miracle Day that gives some great insight into the new Torchwood:
In a narrative sense, you’ve never given yourself a way back, and the way you left things at the end of Children Of Earth, you did that again. And that, presumably, is the plan again here?
Well, I can’t tell you how it ends. I like what you’re saying, and I’m glad you spotted that. It’s a deliberate trend, because it’s quite easy to end nice and safely and comfortably, and I always think it’s a miracle if you come back. So, it’s just more interesting than the other endings that are on offer.
Uh oh. Presuming that they figure out and fix the whole no-one-dies problem that is advertised as the basis for this Torchwood, I guess we’ll just have to see who, if anyone, will ultimately survive. Of course if they don’t fix the problem, I guess the answer is… everyone!
Was Miracle Day the story that you had in mind at the end of Children Of Earth?
Yes. It was already in my head. It was the story that, if it was going to come back, this is the story that we would have done. But Children Of Earth could have died a death. None of us expected it to do as well as it did. I thought it’d do alright, and I was very proud of it as a piece of work. But you can’t guarantee that good pieces of work will get an audience. But the fact that we won five nights of the week, in a row, some nights we beat EastEnders, was amazing. We were amazed by that.
Thank goodness Children of Earth did so well. But then came this part of the interview:
We came along to the set visit in Cardiff earlier in the year, and you do an interesting intro to that. You hinted then that Torchwood was finite for you, that there was a point where you would duck out and leave it to other people to do?
Definitely. Yes. Who knows when, because now we get to the end of a production, I love it all over again. I just saw episode 10 on Saturday, and I’m so proud of it. It’s the most magnificent finale we’ve ever done. It’s balls to the wall action. It’s just fabulous.
So, I just don’t know! We’ll have to see if this is a success. It’s a very hard show to hand over to someone else. And I’m not sure I’d do that. But I just don’t know. We’ll have to see how well it does and what I feel like doing.
It’d be great to think there was more. Let’s change format again. Let’s make a movie. We could do all sorts of things. Let’s find something new.
Could he have possibly left it more open-ended? We agree, it would be GREAT to think there was more. Please.
Torchwood: Miracle Day premieres on July 8 at 10/9c on Starz.
