Podcast - February 002: Big Finish Day 2 - 08 February 2012
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08/02/2012)
Not so much Saturday night teatime in 1977 as lunchtime in the Big Finish offices in 2012, and everyone is in da house, as we believe the cool kids are saying these days.
Nick Briggs, David Richardson and Paul Spragg preview the delights to come at this weekend's
Big Finish Day 2, including guest appearances and talks from Tom Baker, Louise Jameson and Paul Darrow!
Plus, your e-mails lead to discussions about the upcoming
Colin Baker Specials,
The Curse of Davros, healthy disrespect (of which there's plenty) and David's BF acting debut. And Nick tries to do himself in with turkey despite favourable comparisons to Benedict Cumberbatch. Does he survive? And will Bob finally make a return? Find out in this week's thrilling instalment, which you can download or stream now.
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Colin Baker Joins Dark Shadows
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08/02/2012)
Big Finish are pleased to announce that Sixth Doctor Colin Baker will be taking the starring role in March's
Dark Shadows release,
The House By the Sea.
“It was Colin who came to us,” says director Joseph Lidster. “He'd heard about Nicola Bryant appearing in
The Blind Painter and so he spoke to David Richardson about it. We were already thinking about doing what's effectively a single-hander, so it was perfect timing really.”
The House By the Sea also serves as a perfect introduction to anyone who might not have yet experienced
Dark Shadows as it features Colin's character moving to Collinsport and discovering its inhabitants and their secrets for himself.
“Colin was fantastic,” says writer James Goss. “If you've never heard
Dark Shadows before, start here – it's about a stranger encountering all the terrible people and events of Collinsport.... and gradually realising he's on the worst holiday ever. And, wonderfully, Colin really got into it perfectly – it's possibly the quickest recording we'll ever do.”
“Colin is stunning in it,” continues Lidster. “As I said to him on the day, we could actually release the story with no sound effects as his performance is so good. He also does some pitch perfect impersonations of the people he meets – including Barnabas Collins, Julia Hoffman and Elizabeth Stoddard Collins.”
The cover and trailer for both this release and February's
The Voodoo Amulet are now available. Details for the rest of this year's releases will be available soon, and you can hear a trailer for
The House by the Sea at the end of the new podcast, which will be arriving later today...
Gallifrey V and VI Available for pre-order!
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06/02/2012)
When we were last in the company of Romana, Leela and Narvin, they were lost on an alternative Gallifrey, one without time travel and all the benefits that offered. A totalitarian world where Romana was a tyrant and Narvin a psychopath. But they are dead and our Romana and Narvin have stepped into their shoes, trying to change this corrupt world from within and turn it into a Gallifrey they can live on... or use to find a way home.
Gallifrey series V and
Gallifrey series VI are due for release in 2013 and are now available for pre-order on CD and download. Over these two three-disc box sets will see the long-running series come and final, definite, end.
“
Gallifrey has been an amazing series to create, shape and direct over the last ten years,” says series director Gary Russell. “Alan Barnes and I originally spun it out of Big Finish’s fortieth anniversary of
Doctor Who projects and so it seems remarkably appropriate to wind it all up in
Doctor Who’s fiftieth year. We’ve already told eighteen astonishing stories about these characters, and these final six chapters will see the series culminate in a truly breathtaking and dare I say nail-biting (big) finish. Whether everyone makes it safely to that end, though, remains to be seen...”
Produced again by Gary Russell and Scott Handcock,
Gallifrey Series V will go on sale in February 2013.
Gallifrey Series VI then follows in November, complete with a free fourth CD looking back at all twenty-four chapters of Romana and Leela's epic story.
Big Finish Day 2 Approaches
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06/02/2012)
Over 30 guests will be attending
Big Finish Day 2 on Saturday 11 February, a big BF celebration organized by tenthplanetevents.co.uk. There are over 30 guests, plus there will be a massive sale of Big Finish stock at the event with substantial discounts. Tickets can be bought at the venue on the day.
Headlining the event are Tom Baker and Louise Jameson – aka the Fourth Doctor and Leela – who will be launching the new
Fourth Doctor Adventures in style.
Terry Molloy, who plays Davros, will be signing the new release
The Curse of Davros, while
Foyle’s War star Anthony Howell will be signing
The Fourth Doctor Lost Stories (he plays Edward in
The Valley of Death),
The Renaissance Man (in which he plays Christopher) and
Blake’s 7 – Volume 1 (in which he is the mysterious Gustav Nyrron).
Paul Darrow – Kerr Avon himself! – will be launching the brand new
Blake’s 7 – The Liberator Chronicles, and there will be a
Blake’s 7 panel with Paul and members of the production team.
Film legend David Warner, who has appeared in many productions including
Doctor Who,
Bernice Summerfield,
Graceless and many more, will be there, as will lovely Anneke Wills, who plays 60s companion Polly Wright.
Director and star of
Bernice Summerfield and
Jago and Litefoot Lisa Bowerman appears, alongside Bernice Summerfield creator (and Doctor Who TV writer) Paul Cornell. Beth Chalmers, aka Seventh Doctor companion Raine Creevy will be signing copies of
The Lost Stories,
Sherlock Holmes and more. Toby Hadoke (
Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf) will be interviewing guests on stage, and signing BF productions he's appeared in.
Also signing on the day will be guest stars Neil Roberts, Jennie Linden, Claudia Christian and Toby Hadoke.
Thunderbirds star Shane Rimmer will be signing the audio of his autobiography
From Thunderbirds to Pterodactyls.
Big Finish producers Nicholas Briggs, David Richardson, Paul Spragg, Gary Russell and Scott Handcock will be giving an insight into upcoming productions.
Robert Shearman will be signing his collection
Everyone’s Just So So Special, while Nev Fountain will be there with
The Mervyn Stone Trilogy.
Other writers attending include Steve Cole, John Dorney, Nigel Fairs, Matt Fitton, James Goss, Simon Guerrier, Joseph Lidster, Steve Lyons, Mark Morris, Justin Richards, James Swallow and William Gallagher. There will also be a Writers Workshop for attendees.
Directors John Ainsworth and Ken Bentley will be there, plus sound designers Howard Carter, Matthew Cochrane, David Darlington, Richard Fox, Steve Foxon, Alistair Lock, Martin Montague and Jamie Robertson.
There will also be cover artists from Amazing 15, and studio engineers Toby Hyrcek-Robinson and Paul Midcalf.
Big Finish Day 2 takes place at Barking Abbey School Longbridge Road, Barking, Essex, IG11 8UF.
Tickets for the event are just £25 and can be ordered from tenthplanetevents.co.uk
Podcast - February 001: Big Finish Looks Back - 01 February 2012
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01/02/2012)
David Richardson is in studio, Nick Briggs is in
Murdered to Death at the Pomegranate Theatre Chesterfield -
tickets still available - and Paul Spragg is in the office, but a podcast featuring just him is too terrifying to contemplate.
But cunning devil that he is, Nick has taken a recording device with him in order to present the very first Big Finish Retrospective podcast. It's the start of February, so it's time to look back at January. But not this year; that would be too easy, so Nick takes a look back at Januarys of the past.
Gary Russell reminisces about the very first Paul McGann Big Finish tale,
Storm Warning, John Ainsworth discusses Peter Davison-starrer
Circular Time and Nick waxes lyrical about the contribution of Maureen O'Brien to the first
Companion Chronicle,
Frostfire. Plus there's news on our upcoming podcasts starring Toby Hadoke...
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