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Big Finish Announces Unit: Extinction, Starring Jemma Redgrave

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

You know, we get the feeling that Big Finish is going all out in 2015 to make this their biggest ever year. We’ve already had some intriguing announcements, but this latest one is certainly getting us excited.

Today, Big Finish announced that Kate Stewart and her UNIT team from Doctor Who on TV will be starring in a brand new series of audio dramas, thanks to a licensing deal with BBC Worldwide!

As you’ll probably know, Kate is the daughter of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, and the current Head of Scientific Research at the Unified Intelligence Taskforce, which investigates and confronts alien attacks on the planet Earth. You most recently saw Kate in the Doctor Who Series 8 finale, played by Jemma Redgrave (Dracula, Frankie, Cold Blood) and she returns to the role for this audio series.

“We’re thrilled that Jemma is on board for our brand new UNIT adventures,” says series producer David Richardson, “and we feel privileged to work within the universe of New Series Doctor Who for the first time. UNIT: Extinction will showcase all the excitement, drama and wit that viewers of Doctor Who love.”

“Having worked with the greatly missed Nicholas Courtney and his magnificent portrayal of the Brigadier since the early days of Big Finish, it is wonderful to see the return of UNIT under the Brig’s daughter,” says executive producer Jason Haigh-Ellery. “We are all very excited about bringing UNIT back to Big Finish with the next generation and look forward immensely to working with Jemma again, who appears in this month’s Doctor Who main range release Doctor Who – Mistfall [as Decider Lana Merrion].”

“I’m really excited to hear Jemma and her team battling to save the Earth,” says executive producer Nick Briggs. “They’ve been such an important part of the many exciting things to come out of the Doctor Who TV series in recent years.”

More cast members for the first box set, UNIT: Extinction, are set to be released, but what we can share is that this first box set release comprises four hours of adventure, in which Kate and her team confront an alien invasion by the Nestene Consciousness and its army of plastic Autons. UNIT: Extinction will be released in November 2015, and is available as a specially-priced pre-order of £20, with all pre-orders getting a copy of Nicholas Courtney’s memoirs A Soldier in Time as a free download as Supplementary content in Big Finish accounts. A run of four boxsets is planned in total between now and the end of 2017.

What do you think?

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Toby Hadoke’s BAFTA-style Doctor Who 2014 In Memoriam Compilation

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Actor, comedian and podcaster Toby Hadoke – a man who has built relationships with Doctor Who cast and crew from across the show’s history – has produced a BAFTA-style compilation of the creative personnel who passed away in 2014.

Featuring such luminaries as directors Michael Hayes, Christopher Barry and Michael Kerrigan, John Lumic actor Roger Lloyd-Pack (whose death from pancreatic cancer inspired yesterday’s Dave Day), Bernard Kay and Angus Lennie, writer Jane Baker, actresses Kate O’Mara and Lynda Bellingham, and comic strip writer Steve Moore, along with a host of extras, bit players and behind the scenes staff, this is probably the ultimate 2014 memorial collection for Doctor Who fans.

We’d like to express our thanks to Toby for his effort in putting this together. Also, don’t forget his smashing Who’s Round in which Toby chats with people connected with stories across Doctor Who‘s history. If you haven’t listened before, now is the time!

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Five Unmissable Titles This Month From Big Finish!

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

February might seem like any other month, but this time around it is a little different, with not one, not two, but five awesome titles being released by Big Finish, stories that are either Doctor Who, spinoffs or stablemates.

The trailer above highlights what’s on the table this month, with the return of Gallifrey in the new Intervention Earth series (starring Juliet Landau, Sophie Aldred and Stephen Thorne), Vienna’s second series starring Chase Masterson, a full cast Blake’s 7 reunion titled Ghost Ship (starring Paul Darrow and Michael Keating), the Fifth Doctor stuck in E-Space in Equilibrium and the Fourth Doctor and Leela are stranded on a mysterious island in The Darkness of Glass.

Find out more by following the links above back to the Big Finish pages, where each of these titles can be ordered on CD or download.

Enjoy!

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Reviewed: Trial of the Valeyard

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Trial of the Valeyard was a special freebie for Big Finish subscribers in 2013; now it’s readily available to buy as an individual purchase, the question is: should you add this to your ever growing Doctor Who collection?

The answer is simply, effortlessly and excitedly yes.

Taking place after the Doctor’s own farcical trial by the Time Lords in which an ill explained future version of himself, called the Valeyard, tries to take all of his remaining regenerations (six at the time) by acting as the council for the Prosecution, the Doctor finds himself back on the space station where the enquiry took place. This time, the tables have turned and the Doctor is forced to act as council for the defence for the Valeyard, placed on trial for a mysterious crime that may well reveal to the Doctor just how his evil counterpart came to be in the first place…

For many years, part of the problem with 1986’s The Trial of a Time Lord is that there were no answers to the questions asked. Just exactly what is the Valeyard, where did he come from, will he ever bother the Doctor again? These questions, amongst others, were cast aside and forgotten as Doctor Who moved on to a new era with the adventures of the Seventh Doctor and Ace. So it is indeed a wonderful thing to have writers Alan Barnes and Mike Maddox have a good stab at answering some of the mysterious perplexities that have bothered many a Doctor Who fan for nearly thirty years.

In fact this is handled so well that, although there is closure in a sense to the Valeyard’ s genesis, the questions that are raised from said genesis are satisfyingly moreish. By the end of the story, the listener feels like a small weight has been lifted, an explanation the Doctor’s dark future days and what may be to come is interesting enough but the future beyond that that is hinted here is deliciously intriguing and deserves a follow up story as soon as possible. Cleverly, Barnes and Maddox have mirrored the mystery of the original source material here but used it to far greater effect. Whereas The Trial of a Time Lord was a somewhat messy affair with unanswered questions at the end, Trial of the Valeyard is a polished and concentrated story with unanswered, but still satisfying, questions.

Colin Baker, Lynda Bellingham and Michael Jayston thrive off one another throughout the tale: their performances never faltering once and the glee and relish in their voice as they recreate their three-handed performance from long ago is one to savour. The drama and tension never let up and however confined and cramped the setting here may be, these three create a world far beyond merely a courtroom and a swamp. It’s a terrible shame that Bellingham passed away as her character the Inquisitor has depths that have not yet been explored fully, as brought out here. However, as final performances in Doctor Who go, this is a strong one to finish on and will linger in the mind.

Trial of the Valeyard helps to fill the gaps, so to speak, in some Doctor Who history where said gaps are large and conspicuous. It almost goes as far as to help redeem The Trial of a Time Lord with the questions that it answers; once you have a fuller understanding to the Valeyard’ s drive and reasoning, you have an itch to watch the original television serial again with a greater understanding.

As a fan new to Doctor Who, you want to listen to this in order to understand part of the Doctor’s darker nature and possible future. For the older fans that have been seething over the last three decades due to unanswered questions and loose ends, this is an essential Big Finish purchase.

Trial of the Valeyard is available on CD or via download from Big Finish.

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The Sixth Doctor’s Last Adventure Revealed!

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Yes, dear readers, you’ve read that title correctly. Big Finish has just announced the upcoming Colin Baker set, Doctor Who – The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure, will see the Sixth Doctor and several companions embark on Baker’s regeneration story. Season 23’s final serial, The Ultimate Foe, served as Baker’s final outing as the Doctor and when the next season rolled around, we were given the Seventh Doctor without a proper regeneration narrative. The forthcoming four part set from Big Finish seeks to tell that final story of the Sixth Doctor.

Conceived by producer David Richardson (who claims inspiration from the regeneration stories’ importance to the fandom), Baker was happy to take part in the story. “I owe a lot to Big Finish. They have given my Doctor the opportunity to live beyond those few episodes on television which were recorded during a time when the programme was under siege from various quarters. My Doctor did not benefit from that time.”

“However at Big Finish the Sixth Doctor has lived and breathed anew and developed in a way that I am extremely happy with. That would be the only reason I have agreed to bring my Doctor to an end – although it’s not really an end, because Big Finish plucks stories from the whole era of every Doctor. But because I never actually filmed a regeneration, and left poor Sylvester floundering around in my empty clothing with a blond wig on, I have resolutely maintained the lie that I am still the Doctor and all the rest are imposters because I never regenerated! So it’s a tribute to the smooth talking people at Big Finish and the standard of the work completed thus far that I have cast aside my reluctance and joined all the other Doctors in actually having a regeneration. And I can promise you: it’s a cracker.”

The set features The End of the Line (along side newer companion, Constance), The Red House (with Charley Pollard), Stage Fright (featuring Flip and Jago and Litefoot), and the final installment, The Brink of Death, which sees the Doctor and Mel in a final battle with the Valeyard.

While, personally speaking, I’ve not been overly fond of the Sixth Doctor (aside from Trial of a Time Lord and several of the other audio adventures Baker has been a part of), I am excited for this release because it serves to bring an appropriate book end to the life of his Doctor, much in the same way that the 50th Anniversary special gave us an end to McGann’s Doctor and a beginning to Eccleston’s. As a completist, this is a welcomed story arc.

Doctor Who – The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure is set to release in September but is available for preorder now. We’ll be sure to update you as new details are made available. What say you, fellow Kasterborites? Are you excited for a final adventure with the Sixth Doctor?

(Via Big Finish)

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Doctor Who Comic Launches February 26th!

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

Titan Magazines has announced the UK launch of the BBC Doctor Who Comic, featuring the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors in every single issue!

This adventure-packed comic, published under licence from BBC Worldwide, lands in stores 26th February with three on-going stories in the first issue, featuring the three most popular incarnations of the Doctor repackaged into a UK only comic! If you’re desperate to have more from your favourite doctor outside the TV series this comic will fill that Doctor Who-shaped hole in your life with a new issue every four weeks, in a format only available in the UK.

As you may have guessed, this is a repackaging of the three Titan Comics ongoing series, Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor, Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor and Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor, all of which have been tough to get hold of in the UK other than via Forbidden Planet and a few independent stores…

Join the Tenth Doctor as he deals with the aftermath of Donna Noble’s heart-breaking farewell. The Doctor feels he may never again have another companion, but maybe an adventure with some psychic aliens, a New York laundrette operator and the Mexican Day of the Dead festival can help change his mind!

Then, while Amy and Rory are away, the Eleventh Doctor will play! Experience a time-twisting adventure as he hurtles down a collision course into a terrifying cosmic threat. Can the Doctor save the day once more with a grieving young woman, a 70s’ musician, and an amnesiac alien? Find out in this issue!

Finally, Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald set off on a brand new adventure in the TARDIS! The Doctor is off to his most challenging destination yet. Whether he’s battling a fearsome, millennia-old entity on a freshly-terraformed planet or fighting the forces of an ancient alien, expect shocks, surprises and time-shaking revelations.

Every issue features stunning writers and artists, including Eisner Award-winning Nick Abadzis (Laika), fan-favourite Elena Casagrande (Angel, Star Trek), Al Ewing (Loki: Agent of Asgard) and Rob Williams (Trifecta), Simon Fraser (Grindhouse), Eagle award-winning writer Robbie Morrison (The Authority, 2000AD) and Dave Taylor (Batman: Death By Design, 2000AD).

To make the repackaged stories into more of a traditional, British comic, every issue comes with an original humour strip and competitions offering the best Doctor Who prizes in the Galaxy. In issue one, readers can win a set of the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctor Vinyl figures. The first issue will also feature an EXCLUSIVE CODE to download comic strip characters into the ever-more-popular Doctor Who Legacy free-to-play game, completely FREE of charge!

Titan has licensed Doctor Who from BBC Worldwide, the wholly-owned commercial arm of the BBC, and has marketed the title through advertising, online and print ads, PR and social media.

Nicholas Brett, Director of UK Publishing, BBC Worldwide, said: “We’re delighted that Titan will be bringing fans the Doctor Who Comic from next month and extending the relationship BBC Worldwide already enjoys with Titan.”

Issue one of BBC Doctor Who Comic hits UK newsstands on the 26th February and will be available every four weeks in supermarkets, WH Smiths and independent newsagents. Every issue is 84 pages and retails at £3.99.

What do you think? Will you be catching up with the Doctor in his new adventures, or are you happy buying the imported prints?

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Listen to Australia’s Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular!

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Have we got a treat for you! Or your  ears at least…

For those of you (like me) who have no way to attend any of the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular events that are happening in Australia and the UK, a lovely attendee of the Spectacular show in Perth back on 31st January,YouTuber Vanessa Aisha M, recorded a number of the performances!

Along with fan favourites like the “Pandorica Suite”, “Vale Decem”, and, of course, the show’s theme song, the music in this year’s Spectacular included quite a bit of new works from Series 8. And I must say, I think these are some of my most favourite of all the music we’ve had in the rebooted series.

This first piece is “A Good Man?” and I think really invokes that question that always plays in the back of the Doctor’s mind – am I really a good man? He knows so much about the universe and everything in it, but sometimes he really doesn’t know himself.

There are some 18 videos in this playlist, so I will leave it to you, dear reader to take a listen to them all (because all 18 in one post might break our humble little home here) but I will give you a few more.

The piece I think is my most favourite of all the new music is “Wherever, Whenever (Anywhere In Time And Space)”. It highlights some of the more comical moments of the show as well some of the more grand and revealing bits but also wonderfully underscores Clara talking to that little boy in the barn, WHOEVER he turned out to be. This piece also had a special appearances on stage by the Teller and some of the robot knights from Robot Of Sherwood.

“All The Strange, Strange Creatures” saw appearances by more of the Doctor’s foes, including the Silence, the Whispermen, Ice Warriors, and Silurians.

And if they weren’t scary enough for you, the Foretold stopped by as well!

Plus there were Daleks, because you know they’d never allow themselves to be left out of this!

This is the third year the event has been held down under, in various cities in Australia. This year’s show was hosted by Fifth Doctor Peter Davison and conducted by composer Ben Foster.

For more pictures of the event and for her review of this show, as well as the others she has attended, check out Vanessa’s Tumblr blog.

Since writing this, I’ve had the music on repeat, it’s just so good! I do wish that the BBC and folks behind the Spectacular would bring the show to the US! Even if it meant traveling to NYC or Los Angles, I’d go! Of course, my hometown of Philadelphia has a rather excellent, even slightly famous orchestra all it’s own…

Enjoy this treat for your ears, dear readers!

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Potential Series 9 Spoiler: Will An Old Enemy Return?

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This is only a minor spoiler – if true, the BBC will likely announce something soon regardless. But if you’re concerned about this sort of thing, look away now!

Could the Ice Warriors be set to return in Series 9?

Kasterborous reader, Craig Turton has let us know about an odd incident at the Doctor Who Experience: the Ice Warrior, Skaldak from 2013’s Cold War has disappeared – replaced with a notice stating that the costume has been removed for use in filming!

This could be a simple mistake – maybe they’re just mistaken and it’s not being used for filming at all. But maybe there’s more to it than that. Craig went on to explain:

“About 18 months ago I was in a pub off Oxford Street and bumped into Mark Gatiss (shameless namedropping I know – we have a mutual acquaintance Steve Pemberton who he trained with at Bretton Hall). When I asked Mark what story he would ideally like to write in future, he replied that he’d always wanted to write a further Peladon story with the Ice Warriors. So, you never know.”

The Ice Warriors’ last appearances in Classic Who were the Third Doctor serials, The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon, the former of which taught the Doctor not to judge species so quickly – and the latter reinforced his belief that there was something corrupt at the heart of those reptilian Martians!

Anyone else want to see the Ice Warriors back? How about a return trip to Peladon? Let us know below!

And a little bit of trivia for you: when I visited the TARDIS as part of the Doctor Who Experience trip, we were questioned over planets the Doctor has visited more than once. People said Gallifrey, Skaro, even Trenzalore… And of course Peladon was also a correct answer (one which I gave – not to feather ones hat or anything).

Don’t forget to take a look at our article detailing everything we know about Series 9 so far…

Huge thanks to Craig!

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Colin Baker in Independent Comedy, A Dozen Summers

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Colin Baker, the Sixth Doctor, stars as the Narrator in an upcoming comedy film, A Dozen Summers – and is joined by The Office‘s Ewen MacIntosh and a wonderful bunch of young stars.

A Dozen Summers is about Maisie and Daisy McCormack, two ordinary 12-year old girls trying to figure out why adults behave so oddly. Here’s what you can expect:

When they interrupt a children’s adventure story in progress, by scaring off the Narrator, they hijack the film and proceed to tell the story of their own lives, through the lens of the movies they’ve seem.

Jacqueline, their mother, is a struggling model with a idiosyncratic parenting method. Henry, their father, a writer who has sacrificed more than they realise to give them a stable home life.

Maisie and Daisy lead us through their day-to-day life – battling bullies Jennifer, Audrey, and Beth and the pull of first love – Matty Archer, the school heartthrob for Maisie and, unbeknownst to Daisy, her best Samuel for her. They take us through bad dates with Jacqueline, home-life with Henry, school life (with added werewolves and vampires), before finally being forced to take the first tentative steps into adulthood when Jacqueline finally settles down and they decide to set their father up with their teacher, Miss Walters.

And they need to do it all before the story they interrupted re-asserts itself. It’s a race against time – and Maisie and Daisy are learning it’s not necessarily a race they can win.

And, in the end, that might not be such a bad thing after all.

The film is inspired by writer and director, Kenton Hall’s two daughters, with Hall exploring what it means to be at an age where you’re not quite an adult, but no longer a child. Hall, too, is a dedicated Whovian!

“Colin was my Doctor in Doctor Who so he was, quite genuinely, my childhood hero,” he says. “And he totally lived up to that, seemingly without trying. I’m a huge Doctor Who fan, which Colin found out, unfortunately, when my ringtone went off before the session, but the most important thing is that he is a colossal acting talent – that VOICE – and a lovely, gentle, hard-working man. He should be in everything.”

Watch the full trailer above and spread the word for an independent film starring Sixie and a whole lot of talent.

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Thursday News: Dickens, The Dame, The Ghost, And BRIAN BLESSED

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Set your settings to FEBRUARY, HUMANIAN ERA for your first News Blast of the month! Faster than slipping on ice, here’s your News, delivered crisp, cool and Who-ey… Desert Islands, Steam-Punk Dickens, BBC Beta testing and Arrow are all packed in below for your informatinal pleasure…

Royal Disappointment

The wonderful Brian Blessed, King Yrcanos in 1986’s Mindwarp has had to stop playing King Lear with the Guilford Shakespeare Company due to health problems. Following a collapse just after he began his lines on 19th January he recovered enough to persevere with the rest of the show, gesturing to his heart and giving a thumbs up at the end.

He has reluctantly withdrawn from the rest of the run on medical advice. The role is being continued by Terence Wilton.

Recovered Records

We recently reported on the discovery of a desert island discs interview with First Doctor, William Hartnell from 1965 which is available on iPlayer. Also recently recovered and being made available are installments featuring Louis Armstrong and Series 7b’s Mrs Gillyflower (The Crimson Horror), Diana Rigg who is best known for her role as cat-suited ass-kicker, Emma Peel in The Avengers.

Another features Reverend Wilbert Awdry, the originator of another British television institution, Thomas the Tank Engine, a series of childrens’ programs about steam engines narrated by Beatle, Ringo Starr who, among *other* successes, cameo’d in 1965’s The Chase.

 Steam-Punk Dickens…

Doctor Who comic writer, Tony Lee, who penned a number of the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors’ illustrated adventures may have a Dickens-inspired book turned into a film.

Genre supremo Edgar Wright (writer/director: Sean of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) has submitted a more humerous treatment of Lee’s Dodge & Twist which saw older versions of titular pick-pocket Oliver Twist and his pal, the Artful Dodger in a steam-punk 19thCentury London trying to pilfer the Crown Jewels. I can’t think of anything wrong with that. Stick some animal-headed aliens in and it’d sit comfortably anywhere in RTD’s Doctor Who.

Poultergeists!

In Cult Brit news, new Sky drama, The Enfield Haunting stars Ripper Street’s Matthew MacFadyen and Timothy Spall (Harry Potter, Secrets and Lies) and explores events surrounding the most heavily documented poltergeist haunting in Britain. Set in 1977, it’s based on the book This House is Haunted by Lyon Playfair and is directed by Kristoffer Nyholm (The Killing). It is expected to debut in the Spring.

The Other Moff…

Disney-Lucasfilm animated series, Star Wars: Rebels has re-introduced Peter Cushing’s character from the original Star Wars movie Episode IV: A New Hope, Grand Moff Tarkin. The Imperial Governor and ultimately commander of the Death Star was one of the franchise’s most chilling villains played with a voice like cut-glass by Cushing who also portrayed the big screen version of the Doctor in both 1960s Doctor Who feature films. While he might not sound quite like Cushing himself it’s all thoroughly *English* and those cheekbones could cut through time-space…

Rate Strax’s NewsBlasts

The BBC are launching a new website, BBC Taster, where the public can try out projects-in-the-making for a limited time, including one with a familiar lone clone…

The aim is for users to vote for their favoured projects and spot any glitches. This “beta testing” site is unusual for the Beeb which has traditionally been more, um, traditional in it’s interaction with viewer-users. One interactive gem will be Strax News where the Sontaran warrior-nurse guides viewers through an video info-bank of Doctor Who history.

Be sure to take a look – there are two months to go from the time of writing. http://www.bbc.co.uk/taster/projects/...

Barrowman & Barrowman on Arrow

Finally Kasterborites, John Barrowman – the irrepressible Captain Jack Harkness – who currently stars in U.S. Sci-fi drama Arrow as the villainous Merlyn, has his sights on the comic book medium for an expansion of his character. His sister is keen too having collaborated with John on Torchwood writing projects in the past – they aim to expand on the relationship between Barrowman’s character and Oliver Queen, the titular hero, Arrow. You can hear some of his ideas here…

That’s all for now. Consider yourself well and truly blasted.

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