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The Last Day – Big Finish to tell the Seventh Doctor’s final story

Sylvester McCoy’s devious Seventh Doctor is promised an epic 12-part audio adventure send off.  With classic Doctor Who‘s untimely cancellation in 1989, Sylvester McCoy’s Seventh Doctor didn’t get to go out on his own terms. Had the show returned, there were tentative plans for a regeneration at the end of the forthcoming season. Of course, … >

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Master!: Nemesis Express – Doctor Who audio boxset review

The TV Movie Master is back for another round with Vienna – on a train speeding through the Time Vortex! Master!: Nemesis Express is the second boxset outing for Eric Robert’s dastardly incarnation of the Master. Who doesn’t love a good space train? In this case, the story takes place onboard the Kairos, a pleasure … >

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Master! – Doctor Who audio boxset review

Master! sees Eric Robert’s incarnation of the dastardly Time Lord, first seen in the 1996 TV Movie,  let loose. While he has returned a few times on audio, most recently in Masterful, this boxset offers the villain centre stage. Along for the ride too is Big Finish’s homegrown heroine Vienna Salvatori (Chase Masterson). The impossibly … >

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Vienna: Retribution – Doctor Who spin-off review

In her fourth Big Finish boxset since first appearing in Doctor Who spin-off Vienna: The Memory Box in 2013 (and with the seventh Doctor before that), Chase Masterson’s impossibly glamorous bounty hunter, ex-assassins, investigator Vienna Salvatori is back for Vienna: Retribution. This time the three-story boxset is penned by a single writer, the prolific Guy Adams, … >

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Big Finish’s ‘Vienna’ audio box set review: Season 3 fizzes with energy

Chase Masterson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) is back as the impossibly glamorous assassin turned bounty hunter Vienna Salvatori. Unlike previous seasons, this third box set has Vienna accompanied by Jexie Reagan (Samantha Beart, Random Dent in the fifth season of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reprised on stage). Jexie was a jaded cop … >

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Watch loads of TV stars singing ‘It Feels Like Christmas’

The lovely folks at Den of Geek have gathered together TV stars to sing ‘It Feels Like Christmas’ from The Muppet Christmas Carol as part of their brilliant Geeks Vs Loneliness campaign. The video includes Inside No. 9 star Reece Shearsmith, Tuppence Middleton from Sense8, film critic Mark Kermode and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actress … >

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Big Finish’s ‘Vienna’ Season 2 audio boxset review

The impossibly glamorous bounty hunter Vienna Salvatori (Chase Masterson) often sits on the wrong side of the law, so it was quite a shock to discover her in a new position for her second run. Vienna’s first season saw her revel in technological tricks, using memory boxes to disguise her motives and threatening to off … >

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Big Finish’s ‘Vienna’ Series 1 audio boxset review

Vienna Salvatori is the new girl on the Big Finish block. Spun out of an appearance in the Doctor Who main range, and after a successful solo release in February 2013’s ‘The Memory Box’, Vienna’s brand of high concept, sassy sci-fi adventure has earned her a three-part series. Chase Masterson, better known to CultBox readers … >

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