Forum:"Children of Earth" takes place in late 2009: confirm/deny?

evidence for September 2009
freeze-framing a newspaper headline in "Day Two" shows a date of "September 2009". (the paper looks like a daily, but it has a blank in front of the September.) any solid evidence that the story doesn't take place then? (other than the usual assumption that the two spin-off shows take place a year from today.) the Radio Four Torchwood radio plays explicitly take place in 2009. they don't say which month, though.) --Stardizzy2 21:40, 15 July 2009 (UTC)


 * It occurring in 2009 doesn't seem to cause any issues. It just means 2009 is a pretty bad year for Earth all things considered.
 * So the only thing for the placement in 2010 category is the (relatively established) fact that the Earth based TV stories occur a year ahead of 'now'? --Tangerineduel 15:17, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * On screen evidence would overrule the "year ahead" theory. --Raukodraug 18:08, 28 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Journey's End is set in 2009, and SJA S2 is set after Journey's End, which can still mean that Children of Earth is set in 2009. As I said it's just a bad year for Earth. The only way to be definite about this is to prove it with in-universe references. Children of Earth has obviously a few references to it being in 2009. Journey's End occurs in May, so it doesn't stop Children of Earth occurring in September. (Also please remember to sign your forum posts) --Tangerineduel 13:03, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Evidence for September 2010

 * Remember Aliens of London? The Doc drops off Rose in 2006 instead of 2005 (this is on-screen evidence for the one year ahead strategy, applying to CoE), so as a precedent every present time episode has been set one year ahead of transmission date, plus it is also in chronological order, with Journey's End set in May 2009, SJA at some point between May 2009 and April 2010 when Planet of the Dead is set. So Children of Earth must be set in September 2010, with the newspaper in 2009 being due to a continuity error, probably by someone who makes the props for Torchwood who put a random date on. MercM

It seems like it's set in 2010. Why? Because Journey's End is set in 2009. SJA series 2 is set after Journey's end. TWCoE is set in 2010.

Simply, it's set in the summer of 2010.