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Big Finish Christmas Podcast  from Big Finish News RSS  (2008/12/20 8:04)

It's nearly Xmas, and as an early present for executive producer Nick Briggs and line producer David Richardson ,two microphones arrived on their office desks. 'Hey, we could do the podcast right here !' said David in an unconvincing American accent. Andso, the two office chums set about recording a podcast summing up theyear 2008 for Big Finish ... well,only almost all of 2008. Join the would-be (but NEVER will be) Smashy and Nicey of Big Finish as they give candid recollections of their work this year. You'll hearstories of the stars, the recordings, the sheer fun of it all. Thereare the Companion Chronicles Awards! There's even a little bit of controversy and a tiny bit of dogpoo. But never mind the dog poo, here's a fun-packed run-down of allthe best Big Finish moments of 2008. And a merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all our listeners! Click here to download the Big Finish Christmas Podcast

New Eighth Doctor and Lucie Adventures Now Available for Pre-order  from Big Finish News RSS  (2008/12/20 5:16)

Earlier this month we told you about the exciting new weekly series of Eighth Doctor and Lucie adventures we have planned for 2009. Well, now you can get in early and pre-order them. This third series stars Paul McGann as the Doctor with Sheridan Smith as his companion Lucie Miller. It boasts an amazing guest cast including Nigel Planer , Andrew Sachs , Miriam Margolyes , Colin Salmon , Samantha Bond , Stephen Moore , Phill Jupitus and dozens of other big names. The series also features the return of the Wirrn , the Krynoids and those eight-legged freaks from Metebelis 3 . We are offering the full series of eight two-part adventures (that's sixteen half-hour episodes) for pre-order now and if you buy them online you will automatically get them as downloads, too - at no extra cost! The downloads start on Saturday March 7th with Orbis: Part One , followed the next Saturday by Orbis: Part Two , then Hothouse: Part One the week after and so on. Each two-par ...

8,000 Members And Counting...  from Big Finish News RSS  (2008/12/19 19:54)

The new Big Finish website has been going for ten months and in that time we've been growing in leaps and bounds. Thousands of you have now signed up as members of the Big Finish community, and today we hit a real milestone with our 8,000th member. Welcome aboard, rdocon ! As we go into the New Year, we shall continue to grow our Big Finish community with lots of new features exclusively for our members. We'll be offering more free downloadable adventures such as the U.N.I.T. story we gave away earlier this year, and we'll soon have a brand new chat room where you'll be able to speak directly to the actors via special moderated chats. Thank you to everyone who has joined our community this year. We look forward to having you with us for a bigger and better 2009!

Big Finish Podcast Episode 10  from Big Finish News RSS  (2008/12/13 10:43)

At long last! In our tenth Big Finish Podcast , regular contributors Paul Wilson and Barnaby Edwards catch up on the latest Big Finish news, including Doctor Who: Forty-Five , the new series of Dark Shadows , the third Doctor Who stage play Curse of the Daleks , the most recent Companion Chronicles Home Truths and Transit of Venus , and an in-depth discussion of the new series of Eighth Doctor and Lucie adventures . Plus there's an exclusive interview with Colin Baker and India Fisher taken during the recording of Doctor Who: The Doomwood Curse . Also in the show, we check out a listener's top 5 stories and answer some of your feedback. Please send your feedback to feedback@bigfinish.com

Simon Guerrier tells some Home Truths  from Big Finish News RSS  (2008/12/10 11:45)

House Proud How long does it take to write a Doctor Who audio? Simon Guerrier, author of the Companion Chronicle Home Truths , checks his diaries? Tuesday 11 December 2007, about 09.00 I?m wending my way through Notting Hill on the 52 bus, off to a freelance job writing a sticker book, when I bump into Nigel Fairs. He?s off to Big Finish?s usual studios and we gossip about what we?re both up to. The Wake is finished so my duties on Benny are over. I?ve got to type up my notes on How The Doctor Changed My Life , but otherwise I?m not doing much. Ever tactful, Nigel says we should work on something again soon. Wednesday 12 December, 15.36 An email from David Richardson. Nigel has suggested me for something they?re planning, ?a 5th Doctor mini-series that is a sequel to the Key to Time series, for release in 2009?. Can I come along to ?a preliminary writers? meeting for either the morning of Wednesday 19 or the afternoon of Wednesday 20,? at Jason Haigh-Ellery?s swanky ...

The Three Companions  from Big Finish News RSS  (2008/11/20 6:41)

We can now reveal the cast of The Three Companions , the 12-part Companion Chronicles mini-series that will be included as a bonus feature on monthly Doctor Who plays commencing in Spring 2009. Anneke Wills (pictured here) returns as Polly who, in the present day, tracks down Jo Grant (Katy Manning), and realizes their past adventures with the Doctor have actually intersected. Meanwhile, as the planet Earth faces environmental catastrophe, a third companion is observing them from afar... A certain Thomas Brewster (John Pickard), who is in possession of a stolen TARDIS. The Three Companions is written by Marc Platt, and directed by Lisa Bowerman.

Horrors Old and New For the Doctor, Ace and Hex  from Big Finish News RSS  (2008/11/16 16:49)

Following on from November?s Forty-Five , the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex return to the Doctor Who range in the spring of 2009, in a season of three new adventures. April?s The Magic Mousetrap , by Year of the Pig author Matthew Sweet, sees the Doctor end up at a Swiss sanatorium in the year 1926, where director Ludovic ?Ludo? Comfort uses parlour games to keep his rich and famous patients busy. The Doctor soon suspects, however, that someone?s playing a more sinister game. Someone with a score to settle? Skaro?s deadliest are back in May. Enemy of the Daleks , an all-action space adventure by Judge Dredd / Sarah Jane Smith writer David Bishop, has the TARDIS travellers fall in with starship troopers struggling to defend a remote research facility from an all-out Dalek attack. But this time, could it be the Daleks need saving?? Finally, in June, the TARDIS arrives at the scene of one of history?s greatest military disasters ? the Crimean War ? in an as-yet-untitl ...

New Dark Shadows  from Big Finish News RSS  (2008/11/14 2:54)

We can now announce the imminent release of the next two dramatic readings in the Dark Shadows series. For these two new releases, the focus is on the characters of Quentin and Angelique, played by Lara Parker and David Selby.  Released this month, The Skin Walkers takes place in New York at the turn of the century, where Quentin is stalked by a mysterious cult, hell-bent on harnessing his werewolf powers. Meanwhile, The Path of Fate , to be released in December, explores Angelique and marks the Big Finish debut of Stephen Mark Rainey, an author familiar to Dark Shadows fans from his acclaimed official novel, Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark . We are also gearing up to record the final two dramatic readings, which will feature a Dark Shadows original series actor new to Big Finish , who we?ll be announcing soon. Series two of the full-cast audio dramas is on track for release in August 2009 and will be our most ambitious Dark Shadows project to date.  ...

New Weekly Who Episodes for 2009  from Big Finish News RSS  (2008/11/12 16:32)

It may be a Doctor Who lite year on television for 2009, but you can still get your weekly fix of excitement with the Audio Adventures of Doctor Who. Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith are back as the Eighth Doctor and Lucie for a new series of adventures in time and space. This time, though, the stories will be released for download every Saturday night in half-hour episodes, for sixteen consecutive weeks from Saturday 7th March . Each complete two-part story will subsequently be available on CD as normal, with one a month being released from March. Plus, there will be a bonus ninth adventure which will be released as a Christmas special in December 2009 . The season begins with Orbis by Alan Barnes and Nicholas Briggs, which picks up from the previous season?s cliffhanger in The Vengeance of Morbius . Guest stars for this story include Andrew Sachs (Manuel in Fawlty Towers) as Crassostrea and Laura Solon (Ruddy Hell! It?s Harry and Paul) as Selta. The Krynoids ( ...

Dimensions  from Big Finish News RSS  (2008/11/8 9:46)

Big Finish will be in attendance at the Dimensions convention in Newcastle over the weekend of 14th, 15th, 16th November. Present will be John Ainsworth , Nicholas Briggs , Jason Haigh-Ellery and David Richardson with a special appearance by Claire Huckle who played Crystal in the recently released audio version of Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure . Many of the convention guests have appeared in various Big Finish Doctor Who audio dramas - including Trevor Martin who recently re-created his role as the Doctor in Seven Keys to Doomsday . The Big Finish team will be selling Doctor Who CDs and books throughout the weekend - many at specially reduced prices for the convention. For more details about the convention, check out the Dimensions Page on the Tenth Planet Events website. See you there!