TM 2

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

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’.
 * TM 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.