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MIRACLE DAY - FICTION - COMEDY - NEWS + MORE! Issue Four This issue is the Easter Issue obviously... EXCLUSIVE Kai Owen Interview INSIDE! Editorial It’s Christmas Time! There’s no need to be afraid! At Christmas CONTENTS Time! We lie in bed with a Torchwood DVD! (If that’s not true then why are you here? I’m joking of course- you spend Boxing 3: Editorial Day doing that...) 4-5: Inside the Hub Welcome to the Fourth Issue of the only Torchwood Magazine 6-7: The Woodie available: The Hub! We’ve been away for a while- probably be- cause I’m lazy and my laptop crashed mid October. But none the World less, we’ve gone all Christmassy! As, if you haven’t noticed, it’s Christmas (or the holidays...) I love Christmas: good TV, good 8-11: food, good presents and most importantly the chance to be anti- Torchwood’s social as I lie in bed watching DVD’s of Doctor Who, Torchwood The Hub Issue and Family Guy. And of course there’s family and friends and Four Heroic Husband (Kai getting knocked over on ice skates. But still- it’s Christmas! Editor: Matt Powell Owen Article Writers: Matt Powell, Dori This issue sees a first for “The Hub”: AN INTERVIEW! Original- Martinek, Debbie Forrest, Lousie Interview) ly it was going to be Eve, (who readers of WWTW #2 will note Mills, Jooles Sand that she saw the fanzine, loved it, signed it for free, said yes to an 12-29: Miracle Day interview and sadly when we went Eve had sadly left,) but the Interviewees: Kai Owen, “Snow” bracketed information explains it all. We’ve written a fan letter to 30-34: Be her, and we’ll keep you informed on a reply... However- we were Fiction: Debbie Forrest, Louise Mills Careful What You given a Press Pass to Memorabilia Birmingham with the amazing Kai Owen and Arthur Darvill, (Rory in Doctor Who,) and we Artwork: Matt Powell, Louise Mills Wish For (Fiction) got to interview Kai! Kai was lovely to speak to and you’ll hear 35: The our Five Minute interview with the man later this issue! Copy Editor Lisa Moran Torchwood Times Miracle Day is now over which is both sad and good. Good in The Hub would like to thank... the sense that we can run a huge feature about it! In “Miracle 36-44: Christmas at Day”: we review the series, debate whether the format should DWImage2005, Blogtor Who, Mas- stay, review the DVD, look at the lives of the deceased characters sive Events, MCM Expo Group, David Torchwood (Fiction) and look at Ten awesome pieces of tech! What more could you Axbey, Kai Owen, Snow, the followers want? We also report from The Hub 7 from an attendee giving us of us on twitter, Lisa Moran, The Writ- 45-48: Crazy little a look at what the event was like... ers of the Hub, Mr Google, Russell T thing called Hub Davies for making the amazing show Torchwood has only briefly touched upon Christmas before: and YOU! 48: Matt Rambles Episode Ten of series one had a little bit of Christmas however we’ve never had a Christmas Special. I wonder what it’d be like? COPYRIGHT DETAILS 49-51: The Jack and Ianto kissing under the mistletoe whilst Gwen and Rhys “The Hub” is a non profit, Torchwood Musical Tale Part Two burn the turkey due to a mad alien race spawning from the un- Fanzine. No Copyright Infringement derground of Cardiff? I should get writing... However- we bring intended. Torchwood (C) Russell T 52: Next Time you the best equivalent this issue in two amazing fictions! Davies, BBC and Starz. Images used without permission. No money is 53: Merry Christmas! Plus we’ve got articles, comedy and more! And a few mini, “bo- made from the release of this fanzine. nus” features you’ll learn more about later this issue... Top: My signed copy of The Hub Issue Three From all of us here in this issue, we wish you a very Merry Bottom: Me.. At Christmas... At a Christmas and a Happy New Year! Chinese... With Mates... Matt (The Captain of Team Hub) PS: Keep Buggering On! name that you never know what you’ll get.” She also commented that there is still life in the show in an interview with the NZ Herald. Barrowman also com- RUSSELL TALKS mented that a movie is the next progression: “What All the latest TORCHWOOD news in one I would like is Jack Harkness on the big screen,” he MIRACLE DAY! explained. “After four seasons I think that is our Show runner and Creator of Torchwood Russell T next progression. I’d get my production company place! Davies recently performed two audio involved in it, I’d get Russell and Julie involved in commentaries on the new Miracle Day Boxset set it, and I think it would look phenomenal on the big for release this month. Through conversation with screen.” WHAT NEXT FOR Julie Gardner, executive producer, they addressed a strong variety of subjects. Aliens were addressed Executive Producer Julie Gardner commented that commenting on how they did not fit in the Miracle TORCHWOOD? “all options are possible” for Torchwood’s continu- Day world... ation in an interview with Assignment X: “I don’t RTD: I kind of thought do you miss aliens? I do know if there will be more,” she said. “Time will tell. slightly. It’s always had a labyrinthine history. I think it’s so JG: I do. I do miss aliens. elastic in some ways, and it’s had a strange life. It’s RTD: Oh, now we realise! If there’s another series I’d been across so many different channels and had definitely do bigger aliens in it. More alien international audiences, so there’s no single way presence. forward for the show. All options are possible.” Ending the commentary, Russell debates over Jack’s Personally I would like to see a TV series more than mortality... a movie. However a movie would be amazing to ? RTD: Was Jack ever mortal, that’s what we’ll never see, especially seeing the team kicking arse on the know. ‘Cos I think, by the way, that he was a fixed big screen. However long we have to wait for Torch- point in time and space that I’m not sure he was wood’s return- the Hub will still be here. (Just bring ever mortal during the whole story [Miracle Day]. Miracle Day has come and gone. With the gives a f**k about writing scripts if I can out whatever they are doing soon! We’ll run out of We never got to prove it because we never killed season over ending on one huge cliff-hanger, stay at home with him and make his day a ideas soon!) we’re left clueless as to any knowledge on bit happier?” Despite no real reference in him. future episodes. However- this hasn’t caused the Pink News interview, the interviewer JG: [STUNNED SILENCE] speculation and the numerous responses commented in the write up that this may OUTSIDE THE RTD: That’s thrown you. cast give to the “What would you like to see explain Torchwood’s current hiatus: they JG: Oh my god! in the future of Torchwood.” also confirm that Starz will only bring HUB... RTD: If The Doctor says someone is a fixed point in back Torchwood if Russell is a part of it. • John Barrowman, Kai Owen and a wealth of time and space, then they’re a fixed point in time The official response so far is that they are Currently- it seems that we may not get other Torchwood stars were in attendance at the and space. waiting on Russell and the showrunners another season of Torchwood for possibly November “The Hub 7” convention which we report JG: I am horrified! response. A recent interview with Russell re- two years as Russell has plans for a sitcom from later. vealed that his partner, Andrew, is suffering a “Cucumber.” We wish Andrew and Russell • Continuing the convention trend- Kai Owen The DVD is out now containing a wealth of new cancer of the brain and has stopped working. all the best in these difficult times. attended Memorabilia Birmingham and also in at- material... He comments: “I’ve stopped work,” he says. tended alongside Eve Myles, Arlene Tur and Alexa • Torchwood Declassified - 2 episodes: One looks at “I haven’t worked since August. We’re lucky With the ratings Starz and the BBC ob- Havins at the London MCM Expo. If you attended- how the show was made Special Effects we’ve got enough money in the bank that, tained it would seem stupid not to keep we’d love to hear about your Torchwood experi- wise and the other acts as a behind the scenes if need be, I can take the whole of next year the show running. Many cast and crew ence! guide. off. I’ve always been a good saver. I’ve always members have discussed the idea of a • Eve Myles will make a return to “Baker • Character Profiles had that mentality that you’ve got to be movie. Eve Myles commented in an inter- Boys.” • 10 episode intros ready for a rainy day. People keep asking me view at the MCM Expo, London: “I think • John Barrowman has recently completed a • Deleted scenes if I’ve really stopped working. I used to work the next step would be a movie,” she said.