The BBFC have now certified all the episodes of Torchwood: Miracle Day, which also confirms the running time for the episodes:

The New World            15   51m 42s  contains strong gore and bloody injury detail
Rendition                15   52m  1s  contains strong gore and violence
Dead of Night            15   53m 44s  contains strong sex and violence
Escape to L.A.           15   54m 50s  contains infrequent strong violence and threat
The Categories of Life   12   51m 50s  contains moderate violence and a gory moment
The Middle Men           12   51m 55s  contains moderate horror, violence, threat and language
Immortal Sins            15   51m 51s  contains strong bloody violence
End of the Road          15   52m 50s  contains strong bloody violence and threat
The Gathering            12   53m 45s  contains moderate violence
The Blood Line           15   53m 46s  contains strong bloody violence and threat

The forthcoming boxed set will have an overall 15 certificate. Special features have yet to be classified.

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Torchwood: Miracle Day is due to be released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on 14th November 2011.

Tonight sees the final episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day premiering in the United States, with The Blood Line being broadcast at 10:00pm ET on Starz; it will be repeated on the channel several times in the following week.

The broadcaster has released a preview to introduce the episode (for US residents only):



The episode airs in the United Kingdom next Thursday (15th September) at 9:00pm on BBC1/BBC1HD. The episode will also be repeated on BBC2/BBCHD the following Tuesday at 12:50am, and available to watch online in the UK via the BBC iPlayer until 23rd September.

Torchwood:The Gathering achieved an average audience of 3.5 million viewers on BBC One and BBC One HD, according to unofficial overnight figures.

The penultimate episode in the Torchwood series had 14.7% of the audience share and was the 10th most watched programme of the day, very similar to the previous week

The first half of the programme faced strong opposition from Coronation Street, which had 6.7 million watching. The second half faced the game show Red and Black which managed 3.9 million against Torchwood. Celebrity Big Brother, which out rated Torchwood for its launch show three weeks ago, was down to 3.0 million viewers for its live final.

Final ratings, which include those who record the programme and watch it within seven days,will be released next week.

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The broadcast of the episode on Starz on 2nd September achieved a total of 1.024m over its premiere and repeat showings (10pm/11pm); this was a slight drop over the previous week's End of the Road at 1.172m.

The BBC have released publicity photographs for the finale of Torchwood: Miracle Day, The Blood Line; the episode is due to broadcast on Starz in the United States on 9th September (10:00ET), on UKTV in Australia (9:30pm) and on Space in Canada (9:00ET) on Saturday 10th September, and on BBC1/BBC1HD in the United Kingdom on 15th September (9:00pm).

Figures released by BARB show Doctor Who: Let's Kill Hitler, just missed out on a top ten place becoming the 11th most watched programme of the week.

The episode was the 6th most watched programme of the week on BBC Television. It was beaten in the charts by the two major soaps, EastEnders and Coronation Street, New Tricks and The X Factor, but out rated all editions of Emmerdale.

The figures do not include those watching on iPlayer, where over 1.2 million people accessed the episode within 7 days of the broadcast.

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Meanwhile Torchwood: Immortal Sins had a final UK rating of 4.48 million viewers. It was the 32nd most watched programme of the week.

The AI score for Episode Eight of Torchwood, End of the World, was 84.

Torchwood:End of the Road achieved an average audience of 3.5 million viewers on BBC One and BBC One HD, according to unofficial overnight figures.

The figure was slightly up on last week. The main opposition came not from ITV1, which was showing the documentary, 9/11: Day that Changed the World which achieved an average of 5.5 million viewers during its 100 minute slot.

The eighth in the Torchwood series had 15.0% of the audience share and was the 10th most watched programme of the day.

As always the overnight figure is only half the story with the final ratings, which include those who record the programme and watch it within seven days, being released in 10 days time.

Tonight sees the ninth episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day premiering in the United States, with The Gathering being broadcast at 10:00pm ET on Starz; it will be repeated on the channel several times in the following week.

The broadcaster has also released three preview videos to introduce the episode (for US residents only):



The episode airs in the United Kingdom next Thursday (8th September) at 9:00pm on BBC1/BBC1HD. The episode will also be repeated on BBC2/BBCHD the following Tuesday at 12:20am, and available to watch online in the UK via the BBC iPlayer until 23rd September.

Episode Six of Torchwood: Miracle Day, The Middle Men, had a final official rating of 4.60 million viewers according to figures released by BARB.

The programme was the 18th highest rated on BBC One for the week.

The final result includes those who recorded the programme and watched it within 7 days. It does not include those watching on iPlayer.

Episode Seven, Immortal Sins, had an AI score of 81.

Thursday (1st September) sees the eighth episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day premiering in the UK, with End Of The Road being broadcast at 9:00pm on BBC1/BBC1HD. The episode will also be repeated on BBC2/BBCHD the following Tuesday at 12:20am, and available to watch online in the UK via the BBC iPlayer until 23rd September.

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Writer Jane Espenson recently talked to the BBC Press Office about her work on Torchwood.

Torchwood:Immortal Sins achieved an average audience of 3.4 million viewers on BBC One and BBC One HD, according to unofficial overnight figures.

The figure was the same as last week, although this week the main opposition came not from Big Brother, but from the first network showing of the feature film, The Duchess staring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes, which gave BBC Two an average of 3.1 million viewers between 9pm and 10.40pm.

The seventh in the Torchwood series had 14.9% of the audience share and was the 10th most watched programme of the day. ITV1 was showing Show Me the Funny Live Final which had 2.6 million viewers. Torchwood started with 3.8 million viewers for the first quarter, which fell to 3.2 million, before recovering to 3.4 million.

As always the overnight figure is only half the story with the final ratings, which include those who record the programme and watch it within seven days, being released in 10 days time.

Mondays late night repeat of episode Six, The Middle Men. was watched by 0.3 million.

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The premiere broadcast of the episode on Starz on 19th August achieved 662,000 viewers on its 9pm showing, with an additional 255,000 on the 11pm repeat that night. This gave an overall total of 917,000 viewers, showing an increase of 14% over the audience for The Middle Men the previous week.