Torchwood Season 3 Shortened, No Freema?

Torchwood season 3 is to be five episodes only and is Freema Agyeman going to be there? She has been cast in another series.

Freema Agyeman, possibly the most wasted Doctor Who assistant ever, is to feature in the BBC's re-take on Terry Nation's 1977 post-apocalypse drama Survivors.

Agyeman will play Jenny Collins, a 'bright and lively' primary school teacher who tries to save the life of her dying flat-mate by getting her to a hospital when a viral apocalypse sweeps the UK.

Nation's original tale of doom ran for 38 episodes over three series from 1975-77 and dealt with the power-struggles of a decimated British society trying to recuperate and reform after an accidentally-released plague kills the majority of the population.

The success of the series led Doctor Who-veteran and Dalek-inventor Nation onto the huge success of four years of cult sci-fi drama Blake's 7 (1978-81). Drawing heavily on the post-disaster politics of John Wyndham (as evidenced in Day Of The Triffids), Survivors was itself arguably imitated in the 1999 ITV series The Last Train.

The 're-imagining' of Nation's vision is currently filming in Manchester and is scheduled for transmission this Autumn, under the helm of Life On Mars directors John Alexander and Andrew Gunn.