The origin story of the Cybermen, based on the ideas of their co-creator Gerry Davis. Thanks to a neat line or two from Steven Moffat, we know that Cybermen are inevitable. They’re the horrific result of a simple equation: “People plus technology minus humanity.” However, the Cybermen who met the First Doctor at the South … >
Cyber co-creator Gerry Davis ideas become an audio drama for the Fifth Doctor’s Season 19 team. While we famously saw the ‘Genesis of the Daleks’ in 1975, the origins of the Cybermen were only alluded to during Doctor Who‘s classic television run. Instead, they appeared fully formed in ‘The Tenth Planet’, with the cloth-faced monstrosities … >
Told across two box sets, Hooklight stars the Season 19 TARDIS crew. Updated 12/02/25: Hooklight first trailer! Ahead of its April launch, Big Finish have revealed our first glimpse of Hooklight, in an auditory sense that is. Launching in April 2025, writer Tim Foley’s twelve-part tale promises a great quest for the Fifth Doctor and his … >
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 … >
The audio drama draws on the ideas of the Cybermen co-creator Gerry Davis. The Fifth Doctor met the Cybermen on television in the fateful ‘Earthshock.’ However, before that storyline became a fixed point in Doctor Who history, an alternative idea explored the origins of the metal men from Mondas. While the Cybermen were first introduced in … >
From acclaimed writer Paul Cornell, Goth Opera sees The Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa battling bloodsuckers in 1990’s Manchester. After a long gap, Doctor Who audio producers Big Finish are back in the novel adaptations business. Between 2012 and 2016, the company dramatized various Doctor Who books, many by authors subsequently wrote for the Doctor … >
Doctor Who – The Collection – Season 15, featuring Tom Baker’s fourth season as the Fourth Doctor is the next release to come to Blu-ray in March 2024. The announcement is accompanied by a specially-shot trailer featuring Leela vs the Time War, written by series contributor Pete McTighe (Kerblam! and Praxeus) and featuring Louise Jameson’s … >
The TARDIS prop was set up outside Battersea Power Station in London on 6 November in conjunction with a press screening of the Doctor Who 60th anniversary special The Star Beast. It’s all gone a bit #DoctorWho round here… pic.twitter.com/QQyqURYQxh — Nick Cannon (@nickycafc) November 6, 2023 The special guests at the screening included some … >
The first exclusive content to land in the BBC iPlayer “Whoniverse” will be Tales of the TARDIS, a brand new six-part series that reunites beloved classic Doctor Who duos, as they board a very special TARDIS on a nostalgic voyage through space and time. From 1 November, The Whoniverse will become the official name, and … >
Here’s our August 2023 Podcast Roundup – our favourites from the worlds of CultBox. In no particular order, the picks this month are… Blank Podcast – Georgia Tennant Georgia Tennant speaks to Giles Paley-Phillips and Jim Daley on nepotism, recognising her privilege and learning to live with social anxiety. There’s also plenty on her career … >