Torchwood Starts Season Three

Posted by bob in News on August 22nd, 2008

The third season of Torchwood has begun filming in Cardiff, Wales with Paul Copley (Coronation Street) joining the cast.  The team has also added Noel Clark’s Mickey character but Copley apparently replaces Freema Agyeman, whose Martha Jones was expected to join the team.  Instead, when Agyeman signed with BBC rival ITV for a show, she was excised from the story.

The shortened season will last a mere five episodes but will tell one story, “Children of Earth” with scripts from Russell T. Davies, James Moran, and John Fay.  In the United Kingdom, it will air across one week although BBC America will likely run it weekly when it gets to the states in 2009.