Big Finish has officially announced that David Tennant will return as the Tenth Doctor alongside Catherine Tate as companion Donna for three new Doctor Who audio dramas next year. Big Finish executive producer Jason Haigh-Ellery commented: “I still remember the sense of joy I had when I heard that David had been asked to play … >
Following Torchwood’s revival on audio for September’s ‘The Conspiracy’, starring John Barrowman’s Captain Jack Harkness, the second release centres on the fan favourite character of Ianto Jones. Set before his shocking death in 2009’s harrowing Children of Earth, this story finds everyone’s favourite coffee boy turned agent on a rich businessman’s craft for its first … >
Following his successful run of ‘Dark Eyes’ box sets, the Eighth Doctor returns for another series of linked releases. ‘Doom Coalition’ will unfold over four volumes, each comprised of four hour long tales. In Matt Fitton’s opener, an ill-advised prison visit results in the escape of one of Gallifrey’s most notorious criminals, ‘The Eleven’. As … >
When John Hurt was cast in Doctor Who’s fiftieth anniversary tale, ‘The Day of the Doctor’, it was terrific coup for the programme and proof of how high its stock had risen since its triumphant return to our screens in 2005. His curmudgeonly and reticent take on the Doctor, or indeed the missing incarnation of … >
Big Finish has announced twelve new full-cast Doctor Who audio plays featuring John Hurt as The War Doctor. Hurt’s Doctor was introduced in 2013’s ‘The Name of the Doctor’ and featured alongside the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors in the 50th anniversary special, ‘The Day of the Doctor’. Big Finish executive producer Jason Haigh-Ellery commented: “I … >
It has been another bumper month on audio for Doctor Who fans, with two main range releases and the return of the Early Adventures, now featuring the Second Doctor. Tony Jones and Ian McArdell review this month’s new Doctor Who plays from Big Finish… Main Range #203: ‘Terror of the Sontarans’ Rounding out their … >
Big Finish has announced today that a second season of brand new Torchwood audio stories will be released next year. The first instalment of Torchwood: The Conspiracy was released yesterday and Season 1 continues next month with Torchwood: Fall to Earth, starring Gareth David-Lloyd as Ianto Jones, followed in November by Torchwood: Forgotten Lives with … >
It has been a number of years since Captain Jack Harkness last stood in a flappy greatcoat looking pensive on a Cardiff rooftop, but ‘The Conspiracy’ drags us straight back to the early days of Torchwood. While the television programme could be wildly uneven in tone from week to week, David Llewellyn’s audio tale is … >
A busy month for Big Finish started with the release of The Third Doctor Adventures: Volume 1. In the absence of Jon Pertwee, Tim Treloar takes the part of both a narrator and the Third Doctor, alongside Katy Manning as Jo Grant and Richard Franklin as Mike Yates. The boxset consists of two 2-CD stories. … >
The latest audio revival from Big Finish is a series that enjoyed just a single ten-episode run on BBC One in the summer of 1979. The Omega Factor followed the story of journalist Tom Crane, whose psychic abilities brought him into contact with the secretive Department 7. Staffed by a team which included physicist Dr … >