TM 2

This was the 2nd issue of The Official Torchwood Magazine.

TM 2
Cover date:	February 21, 2008
Format:	68 pages stapled
Editor:	Simon Hugo
Publisher:	Titan Magazines
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Contents

Articles and Features

• Behind the Scenes: Song of the Space Whale (with Marie Jones from the Mill on (TW): Meat
• Behind the Scenes: A Bug’s Life (with Jean-Claude Deguara and Nicholas Hernandez from the the Mill on (TW): Reset
• Behind the Scenes: Super Fly Guy (with Ashley Way from the Director of (TW): Reset
• Behind the Scenes: Castles in the Sand filming the Boeshane Peninsula (with Designer Julian Luxton and Marie Jones from the Mill for (TW): Adam
• Production Notes from Richard Stokes Producer.

Interviews / Profiles

• Eve Myles Actress who played Gwen Cooper
• Freema Agyeman Actress who played Martha Jones
• Alan Dale Actor who played Professor Copley
• Bryan Dick Actor who played Adam
• Jack Montgomery Actor who played young Captain Jack
• James Moran Writer of (TW): Sleeper
• Anthony Lewis Actor who played Tommy Brockless
• Where’s Your Head At? (Q&A): Gareth David-Lloyd who played Ianto Jones

Story Previews

• S2.7 Dead Man Walking
• S2.8 A Day in the Death
• S2.9 Something Borrowed
• S2.10 From Out of the Rain

Posters

• Pull out double-sided centre-pages with promotional Series 2 publicity, one with the magazine title banded along the bottom.

Additional features

• The Hub (News)

Including latest merchandise, new series launch, BBC’s Facebook and Bebo video application.

• Competition, prizes included

signed Torchwood novels and audiobooks

Credits

• Editor: Simon Hugo
• Deputy Editor Neil Edwards
• Designers: Oz Brown and Philip White
• Admin Assistant: Hannah Tibbetts
• Managing Editor: Brian J Robb

Facts Included

• Ratings for Series 1 first shown on BBC Three were 2.52m, the move to BBC 2 attracted opening figures of 4.22m.
• Actress Eve Myles’s first connection with the Rift was in DW: The Unquiet Dead where she played a character called Gwyneth.
• The idea of alien whales in science fiction is long established, as early as the 1965 movie Pinocchio in Space. The Song of the Space Whale was also a much anticipated, but ultimately unmade Doctor Who submission in the early 1980s.
• Torchwood One's London based character Adeola was also played by Martha Jones actress Freema Agyeman. Adeola was explained later as being Martha's cousin.
• The Mayfly was originally conceived as being more human than insect but this was changed early on to make it more insect-like.
• Simon Wicker helped visualise both the Doctor’s home planet of Gallifrey and Captain Jack's home in the 51st century, the Boeshane Peninsula.
• Tommy Brockless actor, Anthony Lewis auditioned but didn't get the part of Ben Wainwright in DW: Blink.
• The main inspiration for writer Helen Raynor for (TW): To the Last Man was a short prose story on the Torchwood BBC website by James Goss, prior to its launch in 2006.

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, Smallville, Star Wars and Prison Break.
• Torchwood: The Official Magazine launched with a glossy cover, as a four-weekly title in January 2008 priced £3.75 (UK).
• A subscription offer included a saving of 30% on 13 issues including one Special issue.
• Of the 68 pages, 10 were given over to advertising with 8 pages for other titles from the publisher.
• The next issue page for that published on 20th March 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’.
• Torchwood Magazine Issue 3 includes corrections for this issue including Cath Tregenna’s one word description of Meat should have been ‘Redemption’ and not ‘Greed’. Also corrected is that Marie Jones from the Mill is a Visual FX Producer not Visual FX Coordinator.

External links

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