By 2009, Torchwood: Children of Earth presented a grim, deeply serious story about aliens who return to Earth after it's learned that Earth authorities made a terrible deal with them decades prior. Eve Myles, John Barrowman, and Gareth David-Lloyd in 2009’s Who spinoff, Torchwood: Children of Earth. And, just like this new spinoff, Torchwood was very much the brainchild and passion project of Russell T Davies. Will The War Between the Land of the Sea pull off this tonal shift? The War Between the Land and the Sea is expected to hit sometime in 2025.