TM 3

Articles and features

 * Set Report: Making A Splash Filming the underwater sequence from TV: A Day in the Death
 * Set Report: Forever Hold Your Rhys. The Wedding from TV: Something Borrowed
 * Set Report: Talking Pictures with Jonathan Fox Bassett Director of TV: From Out of the Rain
 * Set Report: The Monochrome Set with Ray Holman Costume Designer of TV: From Out of the Rain
 * Visual FX: Aging Agyeman for TV: Dead Man Walking with Rob Mayor from Millennium FX
 * Production Notes from Chris Chibnall Lead Writer and Co-producer.

Interviews / Profiles

 * Burn Gorman Actor who played Owen Harper
 * Richard Briers Actor who played Parker
 * Matt Jones Writer of TV: Dead Man Walking
 * Collette Brown Actress who played Carrie in TV: Something Borrowed
 * Nerys Hughes Actress who played Brenda Williams in TV: Something Borrowed
 * Andy Goddard Director of TV: A Day in the Death
 * Where’s Your Head At? (Q&A): Abigail Crowe Dark Talk Host played by Siwan Morris

Comic strips

 * Jetsam 11 coloured pages

Story Previews

 * S2.11 Adrift
 * S2.12 Fragments
 * S2.13 Exit Wounds

Posters

 * A4 Rhys Williams and Gwen

Additional features

 * The Hub (News)
 * Including ratings, Radio 4 CERN special drama.


 * Competition, prizes included
 * Meet James Marsters

Credits

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

Facts included

 * Doctor David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University has suggested that the Torchwood series has contributed to the increased reporting of UFO in Wales (from 2 to 9) and nationally (from 97 to 135).
 * The Torchwood art department produced a full order of service for Rhys and Gwen’s wedding in (TV): Something Borrowed for the wedding "guests".
 * Actress Nerys Hughes also appeared in Doctor Who’s 1982 adventure Kinda. Following a bad fall some years ago she had new titanium knees fitted that set off alarms in airports.
 * Actor William Thomas (Gwen's father) has two Doctor Who credits to his name: as an undertaker in Remembrance of the Daleks and as a councillor in Boom Town.
 * Actor Richard Briers played the Chief Caretaker in Doctor Who's Paradise Towers.
 * In the original scripts the Ghostmaker was to steal people's shadows as well as their last breath.

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).
 * A subscription offer included a saving of 30% on 13 issues including one Special issue.
 * The next issue was a 100-page Special. The preview page for that the next issue published on 17th April 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 set report for Something Borrowed and the 'Aging Agyeman' features from this issue was reprinted in the Torchwood The Official Magazine Yearbook (2008).