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Review: Doctor Who Lost Stories – Nightmare Country / The Ultimate Evil

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Review by Jacob Licklider

The Lost Stories range from Big Finish Productions had a four series run from 2009-2013, making a range of stories entirely out of television stories which for one reason or another never made it to the series. The range ended due to the amount of viable scripts drying up; with remaining stories being from creators who would not allow Big Finish to adapt them for one reason or another or stories which weren’t far enough along in development to facilitate a full adaptation. This year Big Finish have given the range a brief revival with two stories from the 1980s not produced during the original run for the former reason, featuring two distinct Doctors and two distinct feels to their stories.

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Stephen Fry And Lenny Henry To Appear In Upcoming Doctor Who Series 12

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With the TARDIS hurtling full throttle on its way back to BBC One, it is only right that two TV legends will be making their Doctor Who debut.

TV icons Stephen Fry and Sir Lenny Henry CBE will both appear in the series opener when the TARDIS lands once more, with Jodie Whittaker reprising her role as the Thirteenth Doctor.

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Review: Doctor Who – Early Adventures (Series 6)

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Review by Jacob Licklider

The Early Adventures range from Big Finish Productions is a chance to tell full cast stories with the characters from the 1960s eras from Doctor Who. The range has currently run five series alternating between the First and Second Doctors, and this month the sixth series was released, however, instead of the standard four release across the final four months of the year there were only two. While truncating this series to two means less content, the sixth series is a prime example of quality over quantity from a range that has already had some of the strongest stories featured. This series, while being firmly part of the Second Doctor’s era, is a celebration of the 1960s era of Doctor Who as a whole creating a “what if” idea of a Fifth Anniversary Celebration.

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The Lost Eighties Doctor Who Stories Are Back!

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Two infamously “lost” Doctor Who stories have been resurrected in all their beautifully-produced audio drama glory today, with the original cast returning to bring them back to life – thanks to Big Finish.

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Disney+ Adds Warning to Back Catalogue Due To “Racist Themes”

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Disney+ has officially launched in the US showcasing classic Disney content spanning the decades, surpassing 10 million subscribers in its first day.

But that also brings with it some potentially problematic content, some of which younger viewers may be discovering for the very first time. This is something Disney is well aware of, as they’ve included a content warning on many classic titles in the Disney+ library.

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Doctor Who Series 12 Writers and Directors Announced

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With the Thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker, and her friends well on their way to landing back on our screens, the next series is set to welcome an exciting host of new directors and both new and returning writers.

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Review: Torchwood – Dead Man’s Switch

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Review by Michael Goleniewski

Dead Man’s Switch represents this particular critic’s first foray into Torchwood audio dramas. While being somewhat familiar with the show and its characters and stories, they had never grabbed me as anything that was absolutely required listening especially with the last television season ‘Miracle Day’ leaving a particularly nasty taste in my mouth.

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Review: Short Trips – Hall of the Ten Thousand

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Review by Jacob Licklider

Big Finish’s Doctor Who: Short Trips range provides an excellent writing opportunity for new writers for the company to test their strength in a short story format. The 30-40 minute short story format with a single narrator almost forces writers to become creative with how they approach telling a story. November 2019’s release is one such story from a new writer, Jaine Fenn, who before working for Big Finish has written several science fiction novels. Hall of the Ten Thousand is her debut Short Trip, an Eighth Doctor story set early in his run narrated by India Fisher in character as Charley Pollard.

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Disney+ UK Launch Date Announced

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There has been a lot of news coming out about the upcoming Disney+ streaming service and the new shows and movies that will be on offer.

The release of Disney+ has been announced as November 12th in the USA and they have announced release dates for many other countries however they have not confirmed the service would be coming to the UK…until now.

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Sophie Aldred returns to the Doctor Who universe in new book

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The Thirteenth Doctor meets Ace in a new book by Sophie Aldred.


BBC Books will publish Doctor Who: At Childhood’s End, the first epic novel from Sophie Aldred, who played the Seventh Doctor’s companion Ace. Continue reading →