Here’s our August 2024 Podcast Roundup – what we’ve been listening to in the worlds of CultBox. In no particular order, our picks this month are… Films To Be Buried With – David Morrissey Actor David Morrissey, who’s currently starring in the sitcom Daddy Issues, talks to Brett Goldstein about his love of film. It’s … >
Mrs Peel… we’re needed again. A new version of the classic spy-fi show The Avengers is in development. According to a report in Deadline, Studiocanal – the rights holders to the beloved 1960s series – are planning to revive the show. Originally launching in 1961 as a vehicle for Ian Hendry’s Dr David Keel, the … >
Steed and Mrs Peel will feature in 3 new adventures, drawn from the pages of TV Comic. Since they ran out of Lost Episodes to adapt, audio producers Big Finish have been busily bringing the comic strip exploits of The Avengers to life. Set in the 1960’s, with its tongue increasingly in its cheek, the … >
Timed to coincide with StudioCanal’s online celebration of 60 years of The Avengers, Big Finish has revealed Linda Thorson (the original 1960s Tara King) will guest star in their next box set of full cast audio adventures Due for release in April 2021, The Avengers: The Comic Strip Adaptations Volume 05: Steed & Tara King stars Julian Wadham … >
Free for one week to celebrate The Avengers at 60 is Big Finish audio adaptation of The Norse Code As we’ve reported already, the cult British show The Avengers is 60 this very week (see our story on the STUDIOCANAL celebration event here). As we mentioned in that article, The Avengers has been recently revived on audio by Big … >
STUDIOCANAL is hosting an online event on January 29 to show classic episodes and discuss The Avengers at 60 In 1961, ABC television company brought The Avengers to our screens (black and white as they were) for an espionage thriller starring Ian Hendry as Dr David Keel and one Patrick Macnee as John Steed. The series … >
For their latest box set of adaptations, after two volumes drawn from Diana magazine, Big Finish have turned to the strips of TV Comic. Three volumes have been announced, the first expanding on tales from the Series 6 “Steed and Tara King” era of the television show. On screen, Linda Thorson’s Tara King may have … >
Following the success of the Lost Episodes and the comic strip adaptations comes the latest instalment in the Avengers universe on audio from Big Finish. Adapted by John Dorney from the 1990 novel by John Peel and Dave Rogers, Too Many Targets is a rip-roaring story of duplicity and subterfuge that “puts the team back … >
The original The Avengers, telling the stories of John Steed and Emma Peel (amongst others) as they took on foes as 60s spies, is getting a brand new television reboot. The Avengers (the non-spandex version!) has laid dormant since an unsuccessful attempt to take the series to the big screen in 1998, in a movie … >
Since 2014, Big Finish’s loving recreations of The Avengers’ lost episodes have transported us back to the formative years of a much loved cult classic. With a harder edge and less absurdity than it became known for, the show was a crime drama which focused on Dr David Keel and the enigmatic spy who regularly … >