‘Dead Woman Walking’, April’s Short Trip, is a tale for the Seventh Doctor and Ace. Set early on in her travels, the story looks at this Doctor’s developing manipulative streak and asks us to consider how far he might go to achieve his desired ends. With Ace wounded during one of their missions, she becomes … >
To celebrate 15 years since the 2005 relaunch of Doctor Who, London Book & Screen Week will host a panel moderated by award-winning journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed with actress Sophie Aldred, screenwriter Vinay Patel and writer Simon Guerrier. Sophie Aldred, best known as the Seventh Doctor’s companion Ace, has been working as a professional … >
Dark Universe heralds a fresh year of Doctor Who Monthly Adventures at Big Finish. It is a release which makes narrative connections in many directions, but the headline must its be choice of companion. Set some twenty years after they travelled together, the story sees the Seventh Doctor encounter Ace. The other notable familiar face … >
In a video released by Doctor Who BBC Books, actress Sophie Aldred announced that she has written a novel titled Doctor Who: At Childhood’s End featuring the thirteenth Doctor and Ace, the seventh Doctor’s companion she portrayed on Doctor Who. Here is the wonderful @sophie_aldred with some #DoctorWho news for you – https://t.co/WTwXBtpF6R pic.twitter.com/GlJOY2OSr6 — … >
The first seventh Doctor Blu-ray comes to The Collection on December 23 with the release of Doctor Who The Collection – Season 26. A trailer written by Doctor Who Series 11 writer Pete McTighe and featuring Sophie Aldred as Ace was released with the announcement. The seven-disc box set includes the following stories from 1989, … >
Actor Nabil Shaban will reprise his role as SIL in an original independent Doctor Who spinoff drama from Reeltime Pictures for direct DVD and Blu-Ray release offered on November 4. Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor, written by Philip Martin and directed by Keith Barnfather, will premiere at the Rudolf Steiner House Theatre in … >
Big Finish have been creating Doctor Who audio adventures for twenty years. During that time, they have worked with multiple Doctors, most of the companions and a whole host of popular characters and villains from the television series, as well as creating a universe of their own. As is traditional, this milestone is being celebrated … >
Through this recent trilogy of monthly adventures, the Seventh Doctor has reconnected with Mags, the werewolf character first seen in Season 25’s The Greatest Show In The Galaxy. The pair have survived both The Monsters Of Gokroth and Mags’ own ancestors living under The Moons Of Vulpana, but for the final tale they are in … >
Range producer Alfie Shaw takes the writing role for March 2019’s Short Trips story Doctors And Dragons. Read by Sophie Aldred, it’s a seventh Doctor story and if the title isn’t obvious enough, it’s a riff on the RPG Dungeons And Dragons. The setup is a girl called Reya needs the blood of the last … >
The first of two December releases for the Big Finish Doctor Who main monthly range brings the TARDIS to Paris in 1922. Travelling with Ace and Hex, the Seventh Doctor is keen to meet some of the creative greats of the age, but instead finds himself at odds with his old sparring partner and fellow … >