Bill Pullman Joins 'Torchwood' as Regular

[Enigma]

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Bill Pullman Joins 'Torchwood' as Regular
By MICHAEL AUSIELLO, TV Columnist | Wednesday December 15, 2010 @ 12:48pm PST

EXCLUSIVE: 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, Eva 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 stateside on Starz in a co-production deal with the BBC. Pullman's only major previous primetime gig was on NBC's 2005 limited series Revelations.

I wonder if this will help improve Torchwood or not.

[Crazedwraith]

I always confuses Bill Pullman with Bill Paxton. We're in some real pretty shit now man.

I wonder if almost completely revamping the cast and show will actually make it good. Still americans being involved in a British show has worked... when?

[Srelex]

Too early to tell. Difference may prove negligible either way.

[Rye]

Ooooh. Mekhi Phifer was Luda in Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake.

I hope they carry on in the tone of the Children of Earth mini. I will actually watch it if it's that cool.

[Zac Naloen]

Mekhi Phifer also did two season of Lie to me

I must confess to knowing nothing about this, Is this a BBC/American channel cooperation like the Tudors is or a complete american remake?

[DaveJB]

I must confess to knowing nothing about this, Is this a BBC/American channel cooperation like the Tudors is or a complete american remake?

The former. It's technically the fourth season of Torchwood (Children of Earth being the third).

[Thanas]

Let's hope they keep the insanity in check.