TM 17

TM 17
Cover date:	20 August 2009
Format:	100 pages bound
Editor:	Simon Hugo
Publisher:	Titan Magazines
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The seventeenth issue of Torchwood Magazine had a cover date of 20 August 2009.

Contents

Articles and features

• Set Report: Torchwood: Children of Earth Day Five
• "Three Heads are Better Than One” Creating the 456 with Millennium FX
• Children of Earth Day-by-Day

Archivist Andrew Pixley presents the first of Three Day Diaries covering Pre-shoot Day to Day 25 of the 77 Day recording shoot.

• Beyond the Hub: Once Upon a Time (Time Travel) by Kate Lloyd

Interviews / Profiles

• Russell T Davies Creator, Writer and Producer
• RIP Ianto Jones "Stop all the Clocks" with Gareth David-Lloyd
• Paul Chequer Actor who played Eugene Jones
• Paul Copley Actor who played Clem McDonald in Children of Earth
• Close-Call: Kai Owen answers the reader's questions over the phone for Kate Lloyd

Comic strips

• Broken by Gary Russell (Part 3 of 5) (11 coloured pages)

Fiction

• The Last Voyage of Osiris (preview to the new Risk Assessment novel) by James Goss with illustrations by Adrian Salmon
• Closing Time (Part Two) by Andy Lane with illustrations by Mike Dowling

Story Archive

• 1.9 Random Shoes (Detailed analysis and comment by Neil Edwards)

Posters

• A4 Hub Pin-Up 4: Jack & Ianto
• A4 Ianto Jones 1983 – 2009

Additional features

• The Hub (News) including Children of Earth Ratings
• T-mail (Readers Letters)
• Children of Earth Survey with a chance to win the new radio drama The Dead Line

Credits

• Editor: Simon Hugo
• Deputy Editor: Neil Edwards
• Comics Editors: Martin Eden
• Designers: Philip White
• Admin Assistant: Jen Evans
• At the piano Colin Sell
• Managing Editor: Brian J Robb

Facts included

• All episodes of Children of Earth showed ratings higher than 6 million.
• The Torchwood pet pterodactyl was called Myfanwy
• The working title of Random Shoes was Invisible Eugene. It was changed at the last possible moment and the Radio Times (and other listing titles) got it incorrect.
• The Radio Times also credited Russell T Davies as co-writer, whereas the broadcast itself credited Jaquetta May alone.
• The Bolt gun being examined in Random Shoes was similar to that belonging to the Torchwood Archive and used by Rose Tyler in TV: The Satan Pit.
• Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second.

Additional details

• This issues contains a number of articles that were held over because the anticipated screening date of Children of Earth was moved back.
• Torchwood: The Official Magazine from Titan Magazines continued to be a bi-monthly title with only six issues a year. Each issue featured 100 pages and cost £4.99 (UK), offering a 15% saving to subscribers.
• 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.

External links

The official online site for Titan Magazines, publishers of Torchwood Magazine.