With UFO:Destruct Positive!, Big Finish brings yet another much loved show to audio — does this live up to already high standards? We take a listen… Released today, UFO:Destruct Positive! sees Big Finish bring back another classic Gerry Anderson show from the 1970s (from a lineup already including Space: 1999). Given the passage of time, it’s been entirely … >
Baby Groot arrives with his own series of shorts… and we loved them! Of all the characters in The Guardians of the Galaxy, the taciturn Groot might seem the most unlikely to land his own solo series. However, as he’s been granted a series of shorts with the accent on fun (and just a little … >
Welcome to Classic Doctors New Monsters 3: The Stuff of Nightmares. “There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things! Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought!” So said the Second Doctor. While his monstrous foes often only make a single onscreen appearance, we often … >
A special illustrated version of Doctor Who and the Daleks, the first ever Doctor Who novel, will be published this Autumn. Published in 1964, the year after the show began, Doctor Who and the Daleks sees Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright caught up in the flight through time and space of the mysterious Doctor and … >
Welcome to the CultBox Podcast Roundup for July 2022. Our favourite podcasts this month in the worlds of film and television have included, in no particular order… Who & Company Ep 63 – David Richardson & This Is Us Big Finish’s (now outgoing) Senior Producer David Richardson joins hosts Brent and Drew to give an … >
The revised edition of Jaunt tackles three iterations of The Tomorrow People on screen, plus much more. If you mention The Tomorrow People to a fellow cult television fan, the response often differs depending on their age. For many, it’s the much-loved 1970s children’s series, while for others it’s the 1990s version. More recently, in … >
All six nominations in the Audio Drama category are for Doctor Who titles. Updated 24/07/22: Lizzie Hopley’s The Curse of Lady MacBeth has come out on top. From the field of six Big Finish stories, the Scribe Awards 2002 have crowned a historical tale for Christopher Eccleston as Best Audio Drama. Congratulations to @lizziehopley for … >
Michael Troughton inherits his father’s role as Big Finish enliven a niche of Doctor Who continuity. A greying Second Doctor working for the Time Lords with an older Jamie in tow? While fans delighted at Patrick Troughton’s return for ‘The Two Doctors’, building on his appearance in the show’s 20th Anniversary Special, it was a … >
Tom Baker enjoys a trio of adventures as his eleventh audio series concludes at Big Finish. The ever entertaining Fourth Doctor has been flying solo in 2022 without a regular companion. Slotting in adventures after Sarah and before Leela, Volume One saw an encounter with the Master and spooky shenanigans at a power station. In … >
The Witcher is a fascinating retelling of ancient Polish folklore that follows the story of Geralt of Riva. Geralt is a trained and mutated professional monster hunter, also known as a witcher, navigating a corrupt society where the humans are worse than the monsters he hunts. Initially written in Polish, the books are a nontraditional … >