Official magazines for one or more TV shows or films. Contains interviews, spoilers, fiction, various trivia, and the rare reviews.
If it has fiction, those bits are part of the Expanded Universe or, if the creator is open-minded enough, Fan Works.
Compare All There in the Script and All There in the Manual, when important information isn't mentioned in the primary medium itself but is shown in the script/credits/supplementary materials. Contrast Pop-Up Trivia, when factoids about the work's worldbuilding and production appear on-screen.
See also Comic-Book Adaptation (a work is adapted into a Sequential Art or Comic medium) and Tie-In Novel (a literary follow-up story involving the original source's characters), both of which a tie-in magazine might contain.
Examples:
Comic Books
- Refractions: A fanzine of Albedo: Erma Felna EDF meant to be an "All There in the Manual" companion piece for the comic. Thanks to its editor being the author's friend, it has easy access to the Word of God statements it shares, especially about worldbuilding.
Creators
- CBS: The network has its own magazine, called Watch, that provides tidbits of trivia about many of the network's most iconic shows.
- Disney: Downplayed as providing tie-in information is not the primary purpose of Disney Adventures. However, its iconic Comic Zone section reunites short comic stories about Disney's animated productions.
- Nintendo:
- Nintendo Force: It's the Spiritual Successor of Nintendo Power, assembled by a group of Ascended Fans, its content lines with that of Power but with a twist of humor.
- Nintendo Power: Although initially focused on providing strategies for the company's video games, it was later overhauled to include news, previews, reviews, fan letters, and "community" sections.
Films — Live-Action
- Star Wars Insider: It contains news events, fan fiction, interviews, questions & answers, previews, and more.
Live-Action TV
- The Oprah Winfrey Show: It spawned the O Magazine, Oprah's vehicle for proclaiming the message that a strong woman who believes in herself can do anything she sets her mind to. This has a healthy international circulation; British readers are appreciative of the message concerning strong empowered women who believe in themselves. But they point to the paradox that there is heavy advertising for prescription drugs of a sort which would positively not be allowed anywhere outside the USA.note
- Red Dwarf Smegazine: A mixture of news, reviews, interviews, competitions, and, most importantly, comic strips of the show Red Dwarf.
- Whoniverse:
- Doctor Who Adventures: It's formatted as if the show's characters wrote articles In-Universe and those were collected in a magazine. There are also episode recaps, posters, short stories, and a mail page to which to send Fan Art.
- Doctor Who Magazine: It's one of the few that includes reviews. It has been running since 1979 and is one of the best in the genre. It goes so far as to print scathing Take Thats of Doctor Who stories, though less so since the series revival.
Tabletop Games
- Dungeons & Dragons:
- Dungeon: Provides short, premade adventures and advice for Dungeon Masters.
- Dragon: Focused on 100% official gaming supplements and the odd comic strip (all of them set in the DnD universe, of course).
Radio
- Pumuckl: The franchise eventually spawned a kids' magazine with cut-out figurines of the characters, puzzles, and trivia of the series.
Video Games
- Infocom: The Status Line is an online newsletter in which the company gives official announcements about their Interactive Fiction games in the form of interviews with game developers or executives. There's also trivia and news-like articles.
Western Animation
- Star Wars Rebels Magazine: It features known information about Star Wars Rebels, short, canonical comics of the characters, and some details about them.
- Winx Club: The series has spawned all sorts of magazines targeted to teenage-to-little girls. All of them contain trivia about the characters' likes, dislikes, dating habits, spells, and opinions on other characters; be it in the form of quizzes, character sheets, In-Universe interviews, or flavored advice (for happiness and friendship) given by the characters. For instance, Flora recommends serving different herbal teas depending on the situation; be it a gathering of friends or wanting to comfort a distressed friend.
