{"id":27404,"date":"2012-08-16T09:19:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T08:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=27404"},"modified":"2012-08-16T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T08:28:16","slug":"torchwoods-john-barrowman-joins-arrow-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/torchwoods-john-barrowman-joins-arrow-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Torchwood&#8217;s John Barrowman joins Arrow cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27405\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Captain-Jack-Harkness-torchwood-18156159-2560-1684.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27405\" title=\"John Barrowman as Captain Jack in Torchwood\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Captain-Jack-Harkness-torchwood-18156159-2560-1684-616x405.jpg\" alt=\"John Barrowman as Captain Jack in Torchwood\" width=\"616\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Captain-Jack-Harkness-torchwood-18156159-2560-1684-616x405.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Captain-Jack-Harkness-torchwood-18156159-2560-1684-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Captain-Jack-Harkness-torchwood-18156159-2560-1684-768x505.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Barrowman as Captain Jack in <em>Torchwood<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insidetv.ew.com\/2012\/08\/15\/arrow-john-barrowman\/\"><em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> has revealed<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/torchwood-series-5-could-happen-but-dont-hold-your-breath\/\"><em>Torchwood<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/doctor-who-series-7-loads-of-new-pictures\/\"><em>Doctor Who<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w1XOfHax6Q8\"><em>Shark Attack 3: Megalodon<\/em> (link definitely NSFW)<\/a>\u00a0star John Barrowman has signed up to play a mystery character on The CW&#8217;s hotly tipped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/smallvilles-justin-hartley-to-appear-in-arrow\/\"><em>Smallville<\/em><\/a> successor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/arrow-exec-i-hope-we-can-use-batman\/\"><em>Arrow<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They quote the producers as saying Barrowman&#8217;s character is\u00a0\u201cwell-dressed man&#8221; and &#8220;as mysterious as he is wealthy\u2026 he is an acquaintance of the Queen family and a prominent figure in Starling City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Arrow<\/em> is due to air later in the year on Sky One HD in the UK.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-27404-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xaq6S_Hcwn4&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xaq6S_Hcwn4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xaq6S_Hcwn4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Barrowman to play a mystery &#8220;well-dressed man&#8221; in the CW&#8217;s Arrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":27405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[2508,143,1198,72,787],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Captain-Jack-Harkness-torchwood-18156159-2560-1684.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}