The Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard, and Audacity Face the Mara in Big Finish's Deadly Strangers

The Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard, and Audacity Face the Mara in Big Finish's #DoctorWho Deadly Strangers

The Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) and his companions, Charley Pollard (India Fisher) and Lady Audacity Montague (Jaye Griffiths) return for Deadly Strangers, a brand-new box set due out in December 2024, that sees them face the nightmarish Mara (from Kinda and Snakedance)! A luxury sleep clinic, where a rich elite lay dormant through the dark times of their planet, is the perfect hunting ground…

Out Now: Doctor Who Magazine #609 Comes With a Free Target Novelisation of The Evil of the Daleks!

Out Now: #DoctorWho Magazine 609 Comes With a Free Target Novelisation of The Evil of the Daleks!

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine comes with a free Target novelisation of The Evil of the Daleks, co-written by Frazer Hines, who played Jamie McCrimmon in the Second Doctor story! In fact, DWM #609 is wild about Daleks, as the issue also includes a fascinating chat with Paul McGann and India Fisher, respectively the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard, about their roles and their wider…

An Eighth Doctor Spin-Off Isn't Happening Soon: Paul McGann's Never Spoken to Russell T Davies!

An Eighth #DoctorWho Spin-Off Isn't Happening Soon: Paul McGann's Never Spoken to Russell T Davies!

It sounds as if a Doctor Who spin-off with the Eighth Doctor isn’t going to happen anytime soon, as showrunner Russell T Davies has never spoken to Paul McGann! This comes as something of a shock, given that McGann is such an extraordinary ambassador for the franchise and Davies is, more than anything, a big Who fan — more so as it appears he’s listened to the Eighth Doctor’s audio adventures…

Reece Shearsmith to Star in Doctor Who Audio Spin-Off, Planet Krynoid

Reece Shearsmith to Star in #DoctorWho Audio Spin-Off, Planet Krynoid

Sleep No More star, Reece Shearsmith, is set to lead an audio Doctor Who spin-off series, Planet Krynoid, from Big Finish. The story kicks off with a three-episode boxset called Nightfall. Shearsmith is best known for starring in the brilliant Inside No 9 and The League of Gentlemen, but he was also in the (underrated) Twelfth Doctor tale, Sleep No More. He’s going to be in a series focused…

New Date Announced for Doctor Who Stage Event, The Stuff of Legend -- And Tickets Go On Sale Today!

New Date Announced for #DoctorWho Stage Event, The Stuff of Legend -- And Tickets Go On Sale Today!

Following the sell out success of The Stuff of Legend, the first ever Doctor Who stage play from audio company, Big Finish, a new date has been added, giving fans two more chances to see a full-cast audio recording live. And tickets go on sale later today (31st July 2024). To celebrate the 25th anniversary of licensed Doctor Who audio dramas, Big Finish Theatre, in partnership with BBC Studios,…

Get a Room: A Brief Guide to the TARDIS' Other Rooms in Doctor Who

Get a Room: A Brief Guide to the TARDIS' Other Rooms in #DoctorWho

We’ve talked quite a bit about our favourite console rooms in the past, and there have been quite a variety of them, but we don’t have many discussions about all the other rooms in the TARDIS.  Here’s a dimensionally transcendental box of wonder containing… well, we don’t know what, because in 60+ years, we’ve barely looked around. And the few times we have been invited in, rarely have we seen…

Big Finish Announce Its First Ever Doctor Who Stage Play Starring Paul McGann and India Fisher

Big Finish Announce Its First Ever #DoctorWho Stage Play Starring Paul McGann and India Fisher

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of licensed Doctor Who audio dramas from the company, Big Finish Theatre, in partnership with BBC Studios, Fourth Wall Live, and AEG, has announced a unique full-cast live recording event, taking place at Cadogan Hall in London on Saturday 14th September 2024. For the very first time, Doctor Who fans will be able to watch an all-star cast take to the stage to…

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Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor Returns to the Time War in Big Finish's Doctor Who: Reflections

Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor Returns to the Time War in Big Finish's #DoctorWho: Reflections

This October, the Eighth Doctor, played by Paul McGann, is heading back to the Time War, alongside starship pilot, Cass Fermazzi (Emma Campbell Jones) and his great grandson, Alex (Sonny McGann). In 2023’s boxset, Cass, the character became lost in time and space. The story continues in Time War Uncharted: Reflections, the first in a new series of boxsets in which the currently separated time…

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Doctor Who: This Year's Bedford Who Charity Con Raises an Astonishing £17,000!

#DoctorWho: This Year's Bedford Who Charity Con Raises an Astonishing £17,000!

We’re very proud to announce that this year’s Bedford Who Charity Con, an event organised by our very own Simon Danes, raise more than £17,000 for charity! In fact, it raised an astounding £17,101. That’s over £6,000 more than its previous record, meaning the convention is going from strength to strength. And no wonder: this year’s sported an incredible array of guests including Eighth Doctor,…

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Samuel West Recalls Joy of Shooting Dimensions in Time and Hopes to Be in Doctor Who Again Soon

Samuel West Recalls Joy of Shooting Dimensions in Time and Hopes to Be in #DoctorWho Again Soon

Samuel West, an actor with plenty of plaudits and high-profiles, says his brief on-screen appearance in Doctor Who is the “finest point of my career”. It occurred in Dimensions in Time, a two-part story broadcast in 1993 that lasted 12 minutes and was actually a crossover between the show and EastEnders. The significance of his appearance, and little slice of dialogue in this story is because he…

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Reviewed: Big Finish’s Classic Doctors New Monsters Volume 4 – Broken Memories

Reviewed: @bigfinish’s #DoctorWho Classic Doctors New Monsters Volume 4 – Broken Memories

The fourth volume of Big Finish’s Classic Doctors New Monsters takes the range to a new level, this time solely focusing on three Steven Moffat creations. They’re so unique in different ways, they don’t disappoint. And isn’t it a funny coincidence that the anthology was released a few days before the exciting announcement of Moffat returning to write an episode for Season 1 (or as I prefer to…

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The Doctor Who Companion Turns 8 Years Old Today

The #DoctorWho Companion Turns 8 Years Old Today

Yep, the DWC is now eight years old! The site launched on 26th March 2016, though its legacy stretches back even further, to the old days of Kasterborous, the site many contributors cut their teeth on. Eight whole years feels a bit nuts, considering the seismic changes in the show, in the franchise, and in the fandom; not to mention some changes behind the scenes at the Doctor Who Companion…

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Liv Chenka on TV? Nicola Walker "Would Love to" Play the Doctor Who Companion Again

Liv Chenka on TV? Nicola Walker "Would Love to" Play the #DoctorWho Companion Again

Nicola Walker has featured in some of the finest British television dramas of recent years, but of course Doctor Who fans know her for playing audio-only companion Liv Chenka. Having featured in 28 Big Finish releases already, totalling over 80 episodes in Doctor Who releases and The Robots spin-off series, and with Russell T Davies plucking characters out of other mediums to bring into the TV…

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Reviewed: Big Finish's Eighth Doctor Adventures -- Audacity

Reviewed: Big Finish's Eighth #DoctorWho Adventures -- Audacity

As of writing this review, social media is awash with the expected snark, speculation, suspicion, simpering, snipping, and cynicism over the new Doctor’s new, new companion. It therefore feels pertinent, and positively cricket, to assess one of the new companions to the Big Finish Doctor Who collective. I aim to buck social trends and provide no snark, speculation, suspicion, simpering, snipping,…

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Reviewed: The Teeth of Ice Starring Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor

Reviewed: The Teeth of Ice Starring Paul McGann's Eighth #DoctorWho

Seeing how Big Finish are pretty much dominating the market with original Doctor Who content, it’s hard to miss if anyone else is attempting the same thing. After all, I don’t see much chatter on X (nee Twitter) about BBC Audio Doctor Who releases apart from audiobooks of Target novelisations. Thus, it was quite a surprise, when in Bluewater’s Waterstones’ audiobook section (when I say…

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Reviewed: Big Finish’s Doctor Who, Once and Future – The Union

Reviewed: @bigfinish’s #DoctorWho, Once and Future – The Union

The final – or perhaps penultimate – chapter of Big Finish’s Doctor Who 60th anniversary event brings Once and Future to an epic climax, with the Eighth (Paul McGann) and Fourth (Tom Baker) Doctors reuniting with their granddaughter Susan (Carole Ann Ford) and future wife Professor River Song (Alex Kingston) against the Union (the titular character voiced by Maureen O’Brien). One Classic era…

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Big Finish to Release Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Book of Audio Cover Art

Big Finish to Release #DoctorWho 60th Anniversary Book of Audio Cover Art

Big Finish will release Doctor Who – The Art of the Audio Adventures, a glossy hardback book collecting together 100 Doctor Who audio drama cover artworks, with commentary by a number of people including the cover artists. The 208-page book will be released in November 2023, as part of the audio company’s celebrations of 60 years of Doctor Who. The Art of the Audio Adventures features…

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