As writing continues on Torchwood season 4, we round up a couple of the latest stories surrounding the show’s return…Shooting doesn't start until the beginning of 2011, yet a few more bits and bobs have been seeping through about the return of Torchwood with The New World next year. The new season of the show is a co-production between BBC America and US cable network Starz, and show boss Russell T Davies has lured in some impressive writers to work on it.
One of them is Jane Espenson, a veteran of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Battlestar Galactica episodes, and she's been talking to Blastr about how the new season of the show is being put together.
Espenson confirmed that she's writing three of the ten episodes of the show, and that all of the scripts will be written this time before the cameras start rolling. She revealed that "Because of the length of our season and the lead time before production begins, we're actually approaching Torchwood in a very unusual way-all the episodes will be written before any of them begin shooting. "This is allowing us to ‘break' all the episodes at once, with the entire writing staff working together in a very concentrated one-month work session. This is making for a very intense and collaborative process, all guided by Russell's very precise vision. The final product is going to be tightly plotted and lovingly crafted."
She also revealed that one of the previously-announced character names has been changed. Furthermore, John Barrowman has confirmed his return, something we didn't actually appreciate was in much doubt. He's basically said that he's ultimately chosen returning to the character of Captain Jack Harkness over continuing in Desperate Housewives. He said, "I was in discussions with the creator of Desperate Housewives, one of the top three television series in the whole world, and he invited me to play Patrick. It was such a good role playing the baddie and I really wanted to do it. But, I also didn't want to spoil the Torchwood deal, so I told him that if I played Patrick he'd have to find a way to kill me off and he went along with that. Desperate Housewives is so huge that it actually helped to seal the Torchwood deal, so everyone is happy."
Torchwood: The New World will be arriving on TV screens next summer.
Espenson confirmed that she's writing three of the ten episodes of the show, and that all of the scripts will be written this time before the cameras start rolling. She revealed that "Because of the length of our season and the lead time before production begins, we're actually approaching Torchwood in a very unusual way-all the episodes will be written before any of them begin shooting. "This is allowing us to ‘break' all the episodes at once, with the entire writing staff working together in a very concentrated one-month work session. This is making for a very intense and collaborative process, all guided by Russell's very precise vision. The final product is going to be tightly plotted and lovingly crafted."
She also revealed that one of the previously-announced character names has been changed. Furthermore, John Barrowman has confirmed his return, something we didn't actually appreciate was in much doubt. He's basically said that he's ultimately chosen returning to the character of Captain Jack Harkness over continuing in Desperate Housewives. He said, "I was in discussions with the creator of Desperate Housewives, one of the top three television series in the whole world, and he invited me to play Patrick. It was such a good role playing the baddie and I really wanted to do it. But, I also didn't want to spoil the Torchwood deal, so I told him that if I played Patrick he'd have to find a way to kill me off and he went along with that. Desperate Housewives is so huge that it actually helped to seal the Torchwood deal, so everyone is happy."
Torchwood: The New World will be arriving on TV screens next summer.
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