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Well, here’s a thought… What if Katherine Kelly’s character in BBC Three’s new Doctor Who spin-off is in fact an undeclared future incarnation of the Doctor? Is Steven Moffat hiding one last surprise in plain sight before he hands over the show? Created by YA author Patrick Ness, Class began filming in Cardiff last week. Former Coronation Street … >
One of the many joys with Big Finish’s new Torchwood series, apart from the great stories and range of authors, is catching up with characters we never thought we’d meet again. With ‘Zone 10’, writer David Llewelyn brings back Toshiko Sato (Naoko Mori), last seen dying in the second TV season story ‘Exit Wounds’. In ‘Zone … >
With Doom Coalition 2, Big Finish continues their series of Eighth Doctor stories as the Doctor (Pail McGann) and his companions Liv Chenka (Nicola Walker) and Helen Sinclair (Hattie Morahan) take on rogue time lord forces with aid from an unexpected quarter. Unexpected that is unless you spotted Alex Kingston reprising the part of River … >
It seems there is no such thing as a quiet month for Big Finish! After the excitement of January’s River Song and Churchill audio debuts, February saw the return their impossibly glamorous home-grown heroine Vienna Salvatori, as well as Eve Myles back as Gwen Cooper to round out Torchwood’s first audio season with ‘More Than … >
Chase Masterson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) is back as the impossibly glamorous assassin turned bounty hunter Vienna Salvatori. Unlike previous seasons, this third box set has Vienna accompanied by Jexie Reagan (Samantha Beart, Random Dent in the fifth season of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reprised on stage). Jexie was a jaded cop … >
While the Troughton-era Early Adventure, ‘The ISOS Network’, may have been bumped to January, there was still plenty going on in the world of Doctor Who audio this month, including the release of the first ‘War Doctor’ Box Set ‘Only the Monstrous’ and the return of Torchwood One’s Yvonne Hartman in ‘One Rule’. Very much … >
As 2015 comes to a close, we’ve picked out ten of our favourite new titles from Big Finish over the past 12 months. We’ll be counting down our highlights from the main Doctor Who range in a separate list, but 2015 has been a spectacular year for Big Finish’s other properties and we’d highly recommend … >
A welcome return to the world of Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray for Alexander Vlahos in The Spirit of Christmas, a perfectly paced pair of deliciously dark stories for the holiday season. First up is ‘Desperately Seeking Santa’, in which writer Tim Leng sets Santa up as a killer who breaks into Dorian’s house one December. … >
Christmas is a time of traditions: The Queen’s Speech, Christmas Dinner, presents and time spent with family or watching the TV. Among the many seasonal programmes – tucked between the Dickens, the comedy specials and the family films – there is always something more supernatural to spice up the holiday viewing. This year ITV has … >
With a leap and a bound Big Finish has opened the door on the Time War, the gap between so-called classic and modern eras of Doctor Who. Executive producer Nick Briggs has been on record many times stating the Time War could never be tackled. How wrong he was, and how well he demonstrates how … >