The voracious plant life has its sights set on domination in Planet Krynoid: Nightfall from Big Finish Productions. Ever busy exploring The Worlds of Doctor Who, audio producers Big Finish have revealed details of a new horror-tinged spin-off. Following the news of Zygon Century, which kicks off in January, 2025 also heralds the revival of another … >
Big Finish celebrates forty years of the Sixth Doctor, surrounding him with many of his companions. Remarkably, four decades have passed since we first met the bombastic Sixth Doctor. Initially self-righteous and quite unlikable, dressed in a technicolour nightmare, there was a plan to peel back his layers over time. Colin Baker arrived during a … >
Multiple Sixth Doctors will converge to mark Ol’ Sixie’s forty years of TARDIS travel. Updated 19/03/24: Trailer released for The Quin Dilemma. Ahead of its release on Friday, 22nd March, there’s a trailer for the celebratory Sixth Doctor tale. The Quin Dilemma sees four iterations of the bombastic Sixth Doctor drawn together to combat a … >
Tom Baker concludes his twelfth series of audio adventures with a bumper boxset of four stories. Angels and Demons sees the irrepressible Fourth Doctor travelling with Leela (Louise Jameson) and Margaret Hopwood (Nerys Hughes). Angel and Demons is comprised of four stories – three two-parters and a ripping four-part encounter with the Weeping Angels. The … >
Thanks to the vagaries of time travel (and early recording), the late actor appears in the Fourth Doctor’s next box set of audio adventures. Big Finish have dropped details of 2023’s second box set of The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Angels and Demons. In it, Tom Baker’s Doctor, with Leela (Louise Jameson) and new companion Margaret … >
The star reunites with Russell T Davies for a sequel to Dark Season, his 1991 children’s television series. Updated 17/03/23: Ahead of its May release, Big Finish have revealed the cover for Dark Season: Legacy Rising. The artwork, by Sean Longmore, centres on the series’ three young leads. That’s Nina Lewis (Bethany Antonia), Jack Parton … >
Welcome to the Podcast Roundup for November 2022 – our favourites in the worlds of CultBox. Our picks this month, in no particular order, are… Acting for Others Presents… Miriam Margolyes and Sir Derek Jacobi In a new podcast, fundraising for theatre workers in need, two theatrical legends meet. Highlights include Jacobi’s mortifying Boris Karloff … >
Welcome to the CultBox Podcast Roundup for June 2022. Our favourite podcasts this month in the worlds of film and television have included, in no particular order… The Two Shot Podcast S10, Ep 1 – Emma Appleton The ever fascinating Two Shot returns for its tenth series, kicking off with actress Emma Appleton (Pistol, The … >
The Eleven sees Mark Bonnar’s multifaceted Time Lord villain granted his own boxset, pitched against another Doctor. He has met the Eighth in Doom Coalition and Ravenous, plus the Seventh for Dark Universe; on this occasion, presumably earlier in both their timelines, he encounters Colin Baker’s bombastic Sixth Doctor. Welcome to Molaruss An abandoned TARDIS … >
Plight of the Pimpernel is the first of two December releases for Big Finish’s monthly adventures range. While Doctor Who has visited the French Revolution before, both onscreen and on audio, we gain a different perspective here as the story riffs on the fiction of Baroness Orczy and her dashing hero, The Scarlet Pimpernel. The … >