They’re positively tripping over new castings over at Starz/BBC’s re-tooled Torchwood.

After bagging ER’s Mekhi Phifer recently, now the bar has been raised even higher with Deadline’s announcement that Bill Pullman will play murderer Oswald Jones, who gets released from stir and becomes a media darling.

Apparently he’s “full of rage” so that may give a clue as to where the character is headed.

Can the show really live up to the level of hype that is starting to build around it?