People of Earth. Star Trek: Discovery has a predilection for lengthy pre-credits sequences and this one is a whopper; before the titles run we catch up on Commander Michael Burnam’s missing year (and changing hair styles), restate the exploding dilitihium mystery and finally see Saru take his rightful place in the captain’s chair. Back on … >
A lonely night-time stakeout by PC Andy Davidson takes an unexpected turn when he’s joined by Torchwood operative Owen Harper, who seems to know more about the police case than he’s willing to let on. But it’s not just Owen’s reluctance to disclose that’s irritating Andy; it’s the fact that he’s been given this thankless … >
Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill sat for a video interview to promote Doctor Who: The Monster Vault, a new book by Jonathan Morris, Penny CS Andrews, Lee Johnson, Paul Lang published by Penguin/Random House. The two actresses shared laughs and chills when discussing their experiences filming with Doctor Who monsters. “I love the Pting,” Mandip … >
He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not is the first of a trio of Eighth Doctor full-cast audio dramas from Big Finish, part of their contribution to the Doctor Who’s multi-platform event Time Lord Victorious. Featuring one of the TLV’s main players, Brian the Ood assassin, the tale begins on Atharna. Seeking one of the … >
The Meaning of Red, the latest narrated Short Trip, is drawn from the end of the Fifth Doctor’s era. A Doctor-lite tale, it focuses on the character of Peri, still finding her feet as a member of the TARDIS crew. When the Doctor is forced to dematerialise, Peri finds herself marooned on the unwelcoming planet … >
A book featuring collection of stories written by Doctor Who writers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic will be available for purchase in support of BBC Children in Need. Penguin Random House offers Doctor Who: Adventures in Lockdown, available now now from UK retailers ahead of its release in on 5th November 2020. The official … >
Master Thief and Lesser Evils are the first Big Finish contributions to Time Lord Victorious, the Doctor Who multi-platform event. Using their narrated Short Trips format, we are treated to adventures for two classic incarnations of the Master, those originally brought to life by Roger Delgado and Anthony Ainley. As both actors are sadly no longer … >
The Eighth Doctor: Time War Volume 4 – with the Daleks defeated and the Time War apparently over, this latest boxset picks up where The War Valeyard left us, following the Doctor and Bliss through an interdimensional portal on the trail of the scheming Dalek Time Strategist. Palindrome In a temporal puzzle box of a … >
Her Own Bootstraps, September’s Short Trip, is another which fills in a little continuity reference, like 2019’s Battle Scars. Here, we run with the idea that the Ninth Doctor was present at the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. The story, as the title suggests, centres on a bootstrap paradox. It begins with the Doctor, travelling … >
Put-upon British counter-intelligence agent Callan is back in a new series of four audio dramas from Big Finish. Part of a new wave of tougher spy and spook dramas, Callan first reached TV screens as the optimism of the 1960s evaporated in the looming shadow of the bleaker 1970s. Created by James Mitchell, and lit … >