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Bill Pullman joins Torchwood

Bill Pullman joins John Barrowman and Eve Myles in the US season of Torchwood.

In only his second major television series role, Bill Pullman (Ruthless People, Independence Day) has signed on to star in the upcoming fourth season of Torchwood as a regular.

Pullman, who joins series stars John Barrowman, Eve Myles and the just-cast Mekhi Phifer, will play Oswald Jones, a dangerously clever convicted murderer who escapes his lifelong prison sentence on a technicality and quickly becomes a media sensation. Genuinely repentant yet boiling with lust and rage, Oswald gets caught up in a terrifying worldwide crisis.

Torchwood‘s fourth season will air on the cable network Starz, in a co-production deal with BBC Worldwide Prods that includes Russell T. Davies. It is seen as an international extension of the UK series rather than a spin-off or remake.

Source: Deadline

8 Responses

  1. @ Mac

    The original casting description described the character of Oswald Jones as a murdering paedophile. It’s possible the paedophile aspect has since been dropped as it caused a minor uproar when it was first announced (although RTD isn’t one to listen to fan-panic).

  2. I’m still pretty concerned about how RTD will write a convicted paedophile character (since he’s not that great with characterisation or anything that doesn’t go “boom”), but with Pullman playing the role, there is at least a chance that adding a child-abusing murderer to the Torchwood team won’t turn out to be completely terrible.

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