Triffids! A new innovative take on the John Wyndham classic

The Triffids are coming in a new stage production (and audio drama) as Platform 4’s show tours the UK. Humanity beware, there’s a new outbreak of monstrous vegetation throughout the country! A new production which adapts John Wyndham’s classic novel The Day of the Triffids into an immersive stage show has arrived. Triffids! features a … >

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The Lone Centurion Volume 2: Camelot – Doctor Who audio review

The Lone Centurion Volume 2: Camelot continues the adventures of Rory Williams, who has taken it upon himself to guard his wife inside the Pandorica.  Doctor Who’s Series 5 finale saw Amy Pond’s luckless (and deceased) fiancé restored to life as an Auton Roman Centurion. Unable to resist his programming, he shot her and placed … >

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Torchwood: Cadoc Point review

Sgt Andy Davidson sets out for Cadoc Point, for a poignant Torchwood tale of love, loss and regret.  Cadoc Point provides another outing Cardiff’s finest, the redoubtable Sgt Andy Davidson. While stories often pair him with a Torchwood team member, this time Andy is acting on his own initiative. Set after the fall of Torchwood, … >

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Picard Season 2 – new images and an audio drama

With the new season imminent, the show has dropped a pile of new images. Plus, there’s an audio drama coming too. With Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard just over a month away, the promotional engine has kicked up a gear. Over the weekend, a number of new images landed showing more of Picard himself, … >

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Jekyll and Hyde comes to Big Finish

Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novella is becomes an audio drama.  After a long wait, Nicholas Briggs is bringing his adaptation of the classic gothic tale, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, to Big Finish. The production first had life on the stage as a 2016 touring production, will join the their classics range … >

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The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Lost Warriors – audio boxset review

Lost Warriors is the third boxset of adventures for Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor.  As with Respond To All Calls before it, these are three discrete Doctor Who tales with a thematic link, rather than a three-parter like Ravagers. Once again travelling alone, the Doctor finds allies on his adventures — all of which are Earthbound … >

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Doctor Who – Big Finish announce Bambera series UNIT: Brave New World

Brigadier Winifred Bambera returns for a 1990’s set UNIT spin-off series with Big Finish.  As revealed in the most recent edition of Doctor Who Magazine, UNIT – the Doctor’s sometime military allies and employers – are getting another audio series. In addition to the exploits of Kate Stewart, Osgood and co, UNIT: Brave New World … >

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Big Finish cast Michael Troughton as their Second Doctor

Patrick Troughton’s son will take on his father’s role for a new run of box sets. Doctor Who audio producers Big Finish have taken the step of casting Michael Troughton as the Second Doctor. A successful actor in his own right, Michael Troughton starred in the 1980s/90s political sitcom The New Statesman with Rik Mayall. … >

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