Season 24 of Doctor Who: The Collection is the next Blu-ray title to be re-issued in standard packaging. The set is due for release 13th Feb 2023.
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Review: Seventh Doctor Adventures – Sullivan And Cross – AWOL
Review by Jacob Licklider
Harry Sullivan and Naomi Cross have been interesting characters. Harry was a companion of the Fourth Doctor played by the late Ian Marter in Season 12, leaving in Terror of the Zygons with a brief reappearance in The Android Invasion and despite being a companion of one of the more popular Doctors, he only appeared as a companion in a handful of Missing Adventures and Past Doctor Adventures partially due to Marter’s passing in 1986. Big Finish Productions has recently used Harry in stories like Return of the Cybermen and Kaleidoscope casting the wonderful Christopher Naylor in the part. Naomi Cross on the other hand is a Big Finish original companion played by Eleanor Crooks, who also travelled with the Fourth Doctor and Harry Sullivan at some point. I say at some point as the characters haven’t had their technical debut as companions with the Fourth Doctor yet and are not set to release until 2024. Further complicating the characters, they have had appearances in the spin-off UNIT Nemesis in both sets with Naomi to appear in the third set later this month. So, it comes as a complete surprise that the second Seventh Doctor set to be released this year is exploring the Doctor finding Harry and Naomi again in Sullivan and Cross – AWOL. This is set either during or after UNIT Nemesis, the writers aren’t exactly clear on how everything fits together in terms of continuity but this set spends much of its first episode focusing on Harry and Naomi in 21st century London.
Batman actor Kevin Conroy has passed away aged 66
Actor Kevin Conroy, best known as the voice of Batman across various animated series and video games – has passed away at the age of 66, it has been reported.
LucasFilm developing ‘Indiana Jones’ series for Disney+
Variety is reporting that Disney is actively developing an Indiana Jones TV show for Disney Plus.
Haunting credit sequence revealed for ‘Wednesday’ Netflix Addams Family series
Netflix has released a visually gripping Credit sequence from Addams Family series Wednesday. The series ewill air exclusively on Netflix on November 23rd 2022, with all episodes to be released simultaneously. Check out the clip below:
Netflix ‘The Watcher’ renewed for second season & ‘Monster’ to become anthology series.
Netflix has ordered Season 2 of “The Watcher” Netflix has also announced it will be turning “Monster” into an anthology series with the streamer ordering two additional seasons of the series. Both shows were created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan.
Review: The Eighth Doctor Adventures – What Lies Inside?
Review by Jacob Licklider
So what happens when your production company switches to a box set structure but doesn’t necessarily have themes for every set? Well that has been something that the past ten months of Big Finish Productions’ output has been, switching away from numbering their sets as to not overboard potential new listeners with so much content they would have to catch up on. It is with this in mind that the Eighth Doctor Adventures range was changed from the four box set arc model to integrate it with the other releases which had some interesting side effects. This meant that this year Big Finish have scheduled four sets featuring the Eighth Doctor, the conclusion to Stranded, the two now standard 3-disc Eighth Doctor Adventures, and a special fourth set featuring Charley Pollard. The two standard sets were scheduled for the last two months of the year, most likely to have a gap for actual production of the sets, the first being What Lies Inside? released this month while the second, Connections, is out in December. What’s especially intriguing is that while there isn’t any sort of story arc, Rafe Wallbank crafted connected covers almost reminiscent of the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels covers (Interference in particular comes to mind). What Lies Inside? is the first set that falls into the category of 2022 sets where each of the stories has been completely standalone, following Silver and Ice and The Outlaws, and like those sets the structure is a two hour adventure and a one hour adventure, though here each episode is an hour long.
‘Westworld’ cancelled at HBO after four seasons
HBO has cancelled the sysci-fi series Westworld after four seasons. Created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, the show premiered on October 2, 2016. The show was co-produced by JJ Abrams ‘Bad Robot’.
Audio Review: The Confessions of Dorian Gray – The Anniversary
Review by Jacob Licklider
The Confessions of Dorian Gray is a range from Big Finish Productions which had its start in 2012 using the public domain character from Oscar Wilde’s novel with the premise that instead of destroying the portrait with a knife Dorian kept on living throughout the century. The range ended after five series in 2016, with an audiobook revival in 2019 reading three unmade stories, a quick free story during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, and now one special anniversary release on vinyl, The Anniversary. Ordering The Anniversary from the Big Finish website also includes behind the scenes interviews, a music suite, and a reading of Scott Handcock’s 2012 story, Gray Matters. While Gray Matters is a story, it does not share continuity with The Confessions of Dorian Gray and will not be discussed in detail for this review, though I will say it is an excellent piece of short fiction as long as you separate it from the typical continuity due to the characterisation of Dorian as a character being more lonely and detached.
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Star Trek Picard season 3 international release date announced
Prime Video has announced that series 3 of Star Trek: Picard will be coming to international audiences on the 17th February 2023. Following its premiere, new episodes of the 10-episode long final season will be available weekly on Prime Video.
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