Via @torchwood_starz:
“We are starting from scratch to some degree, but what helps us is we have got such well established characters in Jack and Gwen that people know and love.
“We will be bringing new characters in too for a new audience, and telling a story that encompasses and could affect the whole world. Children of Earth was the same, but we will see more of the world this time than then.
“Obviously Torchwood is an established show with an clear history which we will refer too, but we have to embrace people who maybe haven’t seen any Torchwood before. If you get too self-referential it can get dull, so what’s gone before will be referenced, but in a subtle way.”
[. . .]
What that will become is for the future though, and as we sat in the pub, I leant forward to ask him my final question, the question I’m sure every Torchwood fan would ask given the chance.
Will you bring Ianto back, John?
He pauses, takes a drink from his pint, then leans forward, pondering ………
“I’m not going to answer that Neil, you’ll just have to watch and see,” he said.
Source. LISTEN HERE JOHN FAY. I THINK I SPEAK FOR EVERYONE HERE WHEN I SAY:
~*~DON'T TOY WITH MY EMOTIONS~*~
Thoughts, gleeclubbers? Hissing noises? Wailing and gnashing of teeth?