There’s another massive year coming as Jodie Whittaker joins Big Finish to lead her own series of Thirteenth Doctor audio dramas in 2025. Producers Big Finish celebrated twenty-five years of making official Doctor Who audio dramas in 2024. However, they’ve no signs of slowing down with a packed schedule for the year ahead. Here are … >
Opening thoughts Few TV shows can boast the transgenerational success and standing in UK culture that Doctor Who can. Since 1963, over a dozen actors and actresses have played the fabled Time Lord. The fact that a TV show has maintained an audience and grown a new fanbase through its 60-plus years of … >
The drama stars Asa Butterfield, Molly Windsor, Christopher Eccleston, Siobhan Finneran and Fra Free. Netflix have revealed details of their upcoming thriller Out of the Dust, from writer Julie Geary (Intergalactic). The six-part series promises to take us behind the doors of a controversial religious sect, with Molly Windsor playing Rosie – a young woman … >
Daisy Ridley stars in the extraordinary true story of Trudy Ederle. Disney have confirmed that Young Woman and the Sea, the drama about the first woman to cross the English Channel, is coming to Disney+. The film comes to the streamer on Friday, 19th July 2024 after a theatrical run which began on May 31st. … >
In an interview with SFX Magazine, Russell T Davies explained his rationale for leaving some Doctor Who plot mysteries unresolved and unexplained. According to Davies, the reason why characters break the fourth wall to talk to or wink at the audience is contained in a scene which never made it to the screen in an … >
In his final boxset (for now), Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor encounters River Song for a trio of Star-Crossed audio adventures. The formidably flirty Professor River Song has caught up with most of her husband’s faces. Since concluding her television adventures, she’s rattled though his regenerational back-catalogue in her own audio series. She’s also hooked up … >
The final box set in the current run of The Ninth Doctor Adventures sees three encounters with River Song. Updated 29/05/24: Star-Crossed is out! Today see the release of Star-Crossed, the latest set of audio adventures for Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor. The three stories see this most isolated of incarnations in the path of the … >
Alex Kingston’s time-travelling archaeologist launches herself into a new audio series, beginning with a prequel to ‘The Ark in Space’. Updated 15/05/24: Cover art, cast and storyline details With her creator returning to Doctor Who this weekend, Big Finish have revealed more about River Song’s upcoming audio exploits. The first box set in her new … >
Christopher Eccleston will join Harry Treadaway in an audio drama based on the classic novel. Walter Tevis’ 1963 novel The Man Who Fell To Earth famously inspired the 1976 movie starring David Bowie. More recently, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Bill Nighy and Naomie Harris starred in a modern television adaptation for Showtime. Now, the Radio Times reports … >
Christopher Eccleston stars with Alex Kingston across three stories in Star-Crossed. As his third series of audio adventures draw to a close, the Ninth Doctor faces his greatest challenge yet. Christopher Eccleston’s incarnation of the Time Lord will enjoy three audio adventures with Alex Kingston’s time-travelling archaeologist Professor River Song. River, who becomes the Doctor’s … >