TM 4

This was the 4th issue of The Official Torchwood Magazine.

TM 4
Cover date:	May 17, 2008
Format:	100 pages
Editor:	Simon Hugo
Publisher:	Titan Magazines
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Contents

Articles and Features

• Set Report: Exit Strategies filming Exit Wounds
• Bullet Points with Torchwood Armourer Faujja Singh on Exit Wounds
• Set Report: Rift in the Family filming Adrift
• Designing Fragments
• Directing Fragments with Jonathan Fox Bassett Director
• Production Notes from Richard Stokes Producer.

Interviews / Profiles

• Naoko Mori Actress who played Toshiko Sato
• Burn Gorman Actor who played Owen Harper
• Lachlan Nieboer Actor who played Gray in Exit Wounds
• Richard Stokes Producer discusses his two years on the show and all of series 2 stories.
• Heather Craney Actress who played Emily Holroyd in Fragments
• Robert Pugh Actor who played the adult Jonah Bevan in Adrift
• Where’s Your Head At? (Q&A): Kai Owen who played Rhys Williams

Comic strips

• Rift War - Part One (10 colour pages)

Story Archive

• Series 2 Episode Guide including credits, dates, ratings, plot synopsis, analysis, Torchwood Declassified details, original draft details, continuity and trivia for all series 2 stories.

Additional features

• The Hub (News)

Including

• Competition, prizes included

Complete set of 200 Torchwood Trading Cards

• Readers Awards 2008 voting form

Credits

• Editor: Simon Hugo
• Deputy Editor: Neil Edwards
• Comics Editors: Steve White
• Designers: Philip White
• Assistant Editor Sarah Herman
• Admin Assistant: Hannah Tibbetts
• Managing Editor: Brian J Robb

Facts included

• CERN is a nuclear facility in Switzerland and behind the construction of the Large hadron Collider (a giant particle accelerator).
• An unofficial one-day Torchwood event The Rift organised by JMLive was held on Saturday 26th April 2008 at Porchester Hall in Bayswater featured writers and guest stars from the series.
• John Barrowman’s stunt double for Exit Wounds was Curtis Rivers.
• The character of Rhys Williams was going to be killed off in Series 1 but Russell T Davies gave him a reprieve.
• Searchlight was the name of the support group set up for friends and relatives of missing people in Adrift.
• The tiny island of Flat Holm (Ynys Echni in Welsh) is the most southerly point in Wales.

Additional details

• Titan Magazines was well known for its range of (predominantly American) TV tie-in titles that included, Lost, Supernatural, Heroes, CSI: Miami, 24 and Prison Break.
• Torchwood: The Official Magazine launched with a glossy cover, as a four-weekly title in January 2008 priced £3.75 (UK) this was the first 100 page special priced £4.99 (UK)
• A subscription offer included a saving of 30% on 13 issues including one Special issue.
• The next issue page for that published on 15th May 2008 includes the comment “contents subject to change”
• Aimed at mature fans of the series, the magazines did not shy away from discussions involving sex and violence, topics integral to the success of this ‘adult’ spin-off series from the BBC’s more family friendly ‘Doctor Who’.
• The Series 2 Episode Guide from this issue was reprinted in the Torchwood The Official Magazine Yearbook (2008).

External links

Official online site for Titan Magazines, publishers of Torchwood Magazine.