Briggs in Doctor Who Live
(
26/08/2010)
The BBC has issued a press release revealing that our very own executive producer,
Nick Briggs, is to appear in
Doctor Who Live, the gigantic arena show that will be touring the UK for five weeks during October and November this year.
'When the show was first advertised much earlier this year, I wondered if I might be asked to be involved, since there were Daleks and Cybermen all over the big ads in the newspapers,' explains Nick. 'Then, months later, I did some presenting at a media conference in Sheffield and met the director and producer of the
Doctor Who Live show. They told me they would indeed want me to record some voices for them, but the very next day they got in touch to offer me the part of Churchill.'
The tour will take Nick away from his full-time Big Finish duties for eight weeks. 'It's playing merry hell with my Fourth Doctor script-writing schedule, and poor David Richardson is having to do all sorts of re-organizing to accommodate my absence, but we both agreed this was an opportunity I couldn't miss. And naturally, I will be in constant touch with the BF production office by email and phone... and I'll be tap-tapping away on scripts the whole time I'm on tour.'
The star of the show has been announced. Actor Nigel Planer (who many will remember as Neil from
The Young Ones), who guest starred in the Big Finish Krynoid adventure
Hothouse, will feature as the mysterious owner of the sinister 'minimizer'.
You can find full details of the show at www.doctorwholive.com.