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Out Now: The Early Adventures – The Isos Network [TRAILER]

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The first series of Big Finish’ Early Adventures range featuring the Second Doctor comes to a close with The Isos Network – starring some very familiar (metal) faces!

Just in time for their 50th anniversary year, the Cybermen are back. The Doctor, Zoe, and Jamie might think the threat of the Mondasian menaces is over, but they couldn’t be more wrong…

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe are leaving Earth after having successfully defeated a Cyberman invasion… The Cyber-fleet is still exploding… But something is escaping through the mass of vaporising debris.

In hot pursuit, the Doctor and his friends find themselves drawn to a mysterious planet where strange beasts slither through the streets of a deserted city… And an old enemy lurks beneath the streets.

As a force of heavily-armed aliens arrives, a battle to save the entire galaxy from invasion begins.

Written and directed by Nicholas Briggs, The Isos Network stars Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon, and the Doctor, while Wendy Padbury joins him as Zoe Heriot. Briggs, as the voice of the Cybermen, rounds off a cast that includes Rachel Bavidge, Richard James, and Kieran Hodgson. This is the end of the second series of The Early Adventures, while the First Doctor and his companions pick up the third series this September. The Second Doctor and his companions will return soon in The Companion Chronicles – The Second Doctor Volume 1, available to pre-order now. Their early adventures will continue in September 2017.

The Isos Network is available to buy now from Big Finish.

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Short Trips: The Way of the Empty Hand & The Other Woman Reviewed!

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Two of the Doctor Who adventures landed on my digital lap and gazed upward longingly at my singular reviewing eye: The Way of the Empty Hand by Julian Richards and The Other Woman by Philip Lawrence are part of Big Finish’s monthly Short Trip series. These are read by Doctor Who actors and are around thirty to forty minutes or so in length. They are indeed a short hop, short stop, and of course a short trip, into Doctor Who.

I have had some acquaintance with the Short Trip series, both in audio and book form, and have always enjoyed the short narrative repast. Short they may be, but rarely lean. So how do these two stories fare? With truncated lengths compared to the usual Doctor Who story, be it book, audio, or television, do these feel a breeze or a rush?

The Way of the Empty Hand is read by Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) with his usual consummate skill. It can never be over-started that his impression of ‘his’ Doctor, the late Patrick Troughton, is a joy to hear. Not only does he pitch the tone and mannerisms perfectly, there’s something quite touching in hearing him channel his old colleague.

In terms of the story, this is a very gentle comic adventure. Perhaps a little Douglas Adams in tone from time to time, but if you accept it for its lighter qualities, it’s a very enjoyable tale. It is a little like watching The Romans – drama sewn into the farce. Jamie is teleported-cum- captured for an alien arena, to fight for the thrills of Combatia’s reigning overlord. Can the Doctor and Zoe help Jamie and manage to overthrow the deadly regime?

Well, probably, naturally, and certainly – as you can probably conclude – there’s every chance good will win out. The plot is hardly new, as old as the non-proverbial hills of Mount Lung, but it’s handled with humour, character and the pace of a gentle fantasy romp. It’s silly in places, very silly, but never feels unfaithful to the era nor the Doctor. I would perhaps go so far to say it has an almost child-like innocence to what is quite a brutal topic, but in some regards, Doctor Who was indeed like that back in the day. As silly as the Doctor actively proves his pacifist ideology, it somehow doesn’t feel out of place. It’s played for laughs, but it doesn’t feel unaware of the line it’s walking.

Perhaps, as I have alluded, the tone feels a little more Hartnell than Troughton, but it certainly has a sixties vibe. Either way, whether in tone with the Troughton era or not, this has a great voice talent, a gentle, fun script, and jaunty adventure that won’t tax you. Perhaps the perfect little story on the bus to work.

The Other Woman is read by Katy Manning, otherwise known to the Brigadier and chums as Jo Grant. This story is a rather unusual one, though again, the plot won’t be unfamiliar to many listeners.

Jo is a little jealous of an alien woman Callandra who seems to have the Doctor enraptured. With promises of helping the Doctor escape his exile on Earth, Jo is suspicious that this alien lady isn’t what she seems. That and Jo really doesn’t like her. Is Jo jealous or does Callandra harbour a dark secret?

This again, is a gentle, straight-forward tale, exploiting the “Other” narrative born from alienation; Jo feels alone in her suspicions of an unknown woman who appears to have charmed all her friends. Again, despite this simplicity of tale, and in some regards, its childish simplicity of character, this lighter approach doesn’t harm the story. Perhaps it’s the constant bombard of contemporary film and television’s high pressure, high octane, Coca-Cola whizz-bang-pop dramatics that makes these gentle tales more engaging. Manning has a very different style to narrative to Hines, but equally charming and befitting the story at hand. Manning’s delivery captures the purity of Jo Grant’s unbridled emotions and energies. The story feels very like being in the head of Jo Grant. Not sure it’s a place that I’m totally comfortable, but for the sake of a story, it works.

All in all, these are gentle, if somewhat disposable little tales from the Doctor’s long lifetime. If you’re looking for depth, drama, and tension, neither will really be offering you such digests on a platter. The beauty of Short Trips, and often Big Finish in general, is their smaller casts capture the spirit of the small BBC production that entertained the masses in the sixties and seventies. The stories maybe simple but they are confident and in the good vocal hands of the professional cast members.

This pair of Short Trips invoke the simpler times of television narratives. Isn’t that worth exploring? You know, just for a short trip?

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Sherlock Convention To Take Place in UK and US in 2016

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A second official Sherlock convention is coming to the UK and US.

Following the success of last year’s Sherlocked convention, three-day events will take place in the United Kingdom and America, and is being organised by Massive Events, in association with Hartswood Films and Showmasters Ltd.

There promises to be the usual mix of photo sessions and cast/crew talks, as well as opportunities to get autographs.

The first ever Sherlock convention boasted a great guest list, including Holmes himself, Benedict Cumberbatch; co-creators, Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat; and Andrew Scott, aka Moriarty. Despite horrified reports of inflated pricing from The Daily Mail and the like, all the fans seemed to have had a wonderful time. The crew obviously liked meeting their adoring public too, because this convention will take place both sides of the pond!

This event will take place on 23rd- 25th September in the UK, with the dates for the US to be confirmed later this month.

The first guests (and the venue) will be announced this Wednesday 20th January, at 12pm Noon, when details of ticket sales will also be revealed.

Excited? Will you definitely be going or does it all depend on which stars will be there? Did you attend 2015’s convention? Let us know below!

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Doctor Who Series 9 – In Six Minutes!

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Viewers of Charlie Brooker’s Screen Wipe (a darkly humourous news show) will recognise Mr Jake Yapp for his succinct summing up of any given subject. Mostly, for Brooker’s brilliant programme, he talks about television, so we’ve had Take Me Out, The Chase, and Deal or No Deal, for example… all in about 90 seconds each. There’s some serious speed-talking going on!

But what would happen if he turned his talents to Doctor Who? Or more specifically, Series 9? The Doctor Who Fan Show found out.

So if you want a refresher, ready for the DVD and Blu-ray release in a couple of months, or if you just missed a few episodes, join he comedian as he talks everything from The Magician’s Apprentice to Hell Bent, taking in Zygons, sunglasses, ghosts, vikings, and guitars as he goes.

That’s Series 9. In six minutes. Not bad going, eh?

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Toshiko Sato Returns in Torchwood Audio Adventures

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Let’s talk Tosh! Naoko Mori is returning to the Whoniverse in a future Big Finish audio, as part of the second series in their Torchwood range.

Announced live on stage at Big Finish Day, Toshiko Sato will return in the second release of Torchwood Series 2, which comprises of six titles across this year. Big Finish says:

“Since we started, we’ve been bombarded with people’s wish lists. And obviously poor, doomed Tosh was on them all. So, as we entered Series 2, we decided to get Naoko in – and she was a delight. She really loves that character, and, as she entered the studio, Tosh came back to life – lovely, excitable, brilliant Toshiko Sato.”

She first appeared in the 2005 Doctor Who episode, Aliens of London, and became a full-time member of Torchwood in Everything Changes, the debut of the spin-off show. Though she was killed in the Series 2 finale, Exit Wounds, she was responsible for the Time Lock that sealed the Dalek out of the main Hub in Journey’s End (2008).

She comes back in Torchwood: Zone 10 by David Llewellyn, which also introduces the KVI – the Russian equivalent of Torchwood! Directed by Scott Handock, here’s the synopsis:

They call it “Pulse” – a radio signal which has puzzled the world for 40 years. But now Toshiko Sato has solved it. She’s uncovered a message which leads her to Russia, and into an uneasy alliance with the KVI. Toshiko needs to get into Zone 10 – a frozen wasteland which officially doesn’t exist.

An intergalactic war was once fought in Zone 10. And it turns out there’s a survivor.

Series 2 begins in March with Torchwood: The Victorian Age by acclaimed crime author AK Benedict (The Beauty of Murder) – in which Queen Victoria (Rowena Cooper) will enlist the assistance of a young renegade by the name of Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) in her annual inspection of the Torchwood Institute. As well as confirming the return of Tom Price as PC Andy Davison, Big Finish says:

“Hopefully people will enjoy the second run of adventures as much as the first. We continue to focus in on one or two Torchwood characters, and try and give them a brilliant adventure. Captain Jack and Queen Victoria are a joyous double-act to kick things off with. We’ve got Tosh going rogue with Russian Torchwood, we’ve got Sgt Andy having an adventure with a ghost, and… Hmm. Well, you can probably guess who else is returning. But there’s a lot more to come.”

So might Burn Gorman, aka Owen Harper, also appear in a future audio adventure? We can only hope!

The next release of Series 1, Torchwood: Uncanny Valley, starring John Barrowman, Steven Cree, and Emma Reeves, will be available to download on Monday January 18th.

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Region 1 Art Revealed for The Underwater Menace DVD

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Earlier this week, proper cover art for the US/North American version of the Underwater Menace DVD was published. We previously covered this story on Kasterborous, but since then, there has been an update.

The previous release date has been changed, and it is now scheduled for release on Tuesday, March 1st.

The TARDIS lands in the lost city of Atlantis, where the crazed Professor Zaroff has convinced the Atlanteans that he can raise their city from beneath the sea. But the Doctor discovers the terrible truth behind Zaroff s plan he intends to destroy the entire planet. With the doomsday clock ticking, the Doctor and his companions must battle to prevent the apocalypse….

You can pre-order the DVD from Amazon.

It still makes me sad that it’s the final release in the classic line. The BBC Worldwide Twitter account sent out this tweet last summer, but has given no further information since then.

What could this tweet mean? Who knows (no pun intended)? I’m hoping for full season boxes on Blu-Ray (not that it would be true HD sourced material, but that’s a discussion for another time). I just am a bit sad that the classic line is over, especially when so many of them are out of print these days. Maybe it’s time for the #omnirumour to make a return? We need more classic DVD releases!

Anyway, the Region 1 cover art for The Underwater Menace is essentially its Region 2 cover, but it’s nice to see it in a less cluttered environment. Shame Jamie looks a little… odd.

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Leela Fights Alongside the War Doctor in Casualties of War!

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It’s Big Finish Day, and the audio company has announced that the much-loved Leela (Louise Jameson) will also star with John Hurt in the fourth War Doctor boxset, Casualties of War!

It was announced live on stage earlier today… because Louise just couldn’t contain her excitement any longer! And quite understandably.

In the middle of the Time War, the War Doctor comes across a very old friend; a woman he trained not to be the kill-first-ask-questions-later fighter. Producer, David Richardson says:

“I’d often wondered what became of Leela during the Time War, and working on these War Doctor tales has given us a wonderful opportunity to explore that. And it’s irresistible territory – the Warrior of the Sevateem reunited with an old friend, who has become a Warrior in the Time War.”

Jameson has worked extensively for Big Finish before, notably alongside Tom Baker in the Fourth Doctor Adventures and in the incredible Gallifrey saga. Nick Briggs, voice of the Daleks and Executive Producer, adds:

“Over the many years of working with us, Louise has brought so much extra depth to the character of Leela, and given the nature of her backstory and involvement in the affairs of Gallifrey it was a natural choice to have her involved in the Time War. And like John Hurt, she’s a genuinely uplifting person to work with.”

We can’t wait… However, we’re forced to. Because Casualties of War isn’t out until February 2017. We do, at least, have the 35-second teaser above to tide us over.

As this is the last War Doctor boxset confirmed for release, we have to wonder if this is a conclusion to the series, what that means for our favourite Time Lord, and the consequences for Leela…

Casualties of War is available to pre-order now, for only £20. The War Doctor’s debut Big Finish adventure, Doctor Who – The War Doctor 1: Only the Monstrous, can be downloaded today from the Big Finish website and is on general release in March. The saga continues from Big Finish next month with Doctor Who – The War Doctor 2: Infernal Devices, followed by September’s Doctor Who – The War Doctor 3: Agents of Chaos.

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Out Now: The Churchill Years – Volume One [TRAILER]

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Keep Buggering On, everyone – Ian McNiece is back as Sir Winston Churchill!

The latest NuWho title from Big Finish has just been released exclusively through the company’s site, and tells just a few tales from the former Prime Minister’s secret memoirs starring the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors.

The four-hour saga also stars Danny Horn as Kazran Sardick (from 2010’s A Christmas Carol) and Holly Earl as Lily Arwell (from 2011’s The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe). Here’s what to expect:

The Oncoming Storm by Phil Mulryne

Late 1939. Britain faces the might of Germany. Winston Churchill serves as First Lord of the Admiralty. But Churchill soon finds himself facing a more immediate threat than the looming Nazi menace. A ‘Stone’ with the most mysterious properties is discovered in the Thames’ sands, and soon oddly spoken soldiers are creeping round London ruthlessly trying to acquire it. Who are they? Can Churchill and his new secretary Hetty Warner defeat them? And what about the man in the battered leather jacket that Hetty meets? Churchill feels sure they can rely on the Doctor to help them! Except that this Doctor seems to want to stay hidden in the shadows…

Hounded by Alan Barnes

In the dark days of 1941, Britain is in the midst of war. Churchill must stand strong against the might of the enemy – but he is plagued by a darkness in his own psyche. Something he calls ‘the Black Dog’.

Can a visiting Swami hold the answer to his troubles? And can Hetty Warner prevent the Prime Minister’s adversaries from taking advantage of the situation?

Across London, the Tenth Doctor’s arrival may be the nation’s only hope – but the Time Lord’s plan to help his friend is endangered when he finds himself declared a traitor by the agents of the country he has come to protect…

Living History by Justin Richards

Finally given the chance to travel in the TARDIS, Winston Churchill cannot resist the opportunity of meeting Julius Caesar. But the trip does not go quite as planned. With the TARDIS gone, and Churchill stranded in ancient Britain with a young man he barely knows and who comes from the future, it seems things can hardly get any worse.

Until he is captured by the invading Romans.

Still, at least that means Churchill will meet Julius Caesar after all. But then Churchill learns of the Bronze God, feared and worshipped by the Ancient Britons. A god that he recognises as anything but divine when he meets it.

The Chartwell Metamorphosis by Ken Bentley

Comfortably retired to his home at Chartwell, Churchill plans to live out his days in peace, in the company of his butterflies – if his attendants would just leave him alone.

But it isn’t simply Lepidoptera breeding in the gardens, as a far more sinister species is about to emerge from its cocoon – and is ready to feast on something more than just the shrubberies.

Surrounded on all sides, the former Prime Minister must put a life’s worth of experience into action in order to win the day. Can his new nurse Lily Arwell offer her assistance?

McNiece is also joined by Emily Atack, Micheal Gould, Derek Riddell, Alistair Petrie, Laura Rogers, Carolyn Seymour, John Banks , Phil Mulryne, Jo Stone-Fewings, Amerjit Deu, Stewart Scudamore, and Nicholas Briggs.

The boxset can be purchased for £20 from Big Finish; its normal retail release isn’t until March!

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Review: Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor #1

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Titan Comics Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures gets off to a strong start with The Pictures of Josephine Day; a village under siege story featuring some familiar monsters, an artist whose life like drawings are threatening the locals and a message wrapped in classic literature from a previous Doctor – you see it’s not just the title that offers a literary clue for adventures to come.

Speaking of the Doctor, the Eighth Doctor’s introduction is a carbon copy of his remarkable entrance in The Night of the Doctor – the key difference being that, while we weren’t getting the Doctor we expecting in the mini-episode, here we’re getting an expected Doctor but a different attitude.

When I say an ‘expected Doctor’ his appearance is still a little jarring – seriously, he maybe the romantic Doctor but here, he’s positively Byronic: foppish, with disarming blue eyes and a charming smile; he gives the impression he’d be more at home relaxing upon the chez lounge than solving the universe’s monster problem. However the spirit of Paul McGann is ever present.

Leaning in the doorway to his old cottage, this is a Doctor unburdened; the events of the Time War are his future but our past – it makes his childlike excitement at the unfolding mystery at the heart of this sleepy Welsh village all the more infectious.

The issues see the Doctor startle a young artist called Josie Day, who unbeknownst to both of them, has been squatting in an old cottage he previously used back in another incarnation. You see, the Doctor has come back to pick up his copy of Jane Eyre, where, contained within is a message from his previous self, with instructions on where to go and what to do.

Josie maybe homeless but that doesn’t mean she isn’t industrious. While living under the Doctor’s roof, she’s tidied up, done a spot of renovating and even found time to paint – she’s both an innocent dreamer and enduringly earnest; strong but sensitive: She takes the Doctor’s claim to ownership at face value while lamenting her artistic ambitions, threatens to have a word with one of the regulars who obviously has a history of getting a bit leery, and, rather sweetly, takes responsibility when her artwork comes to life and starts attacking the villagers.

Along the way there are some neat visual tricks that keep the pace of the story flowing – it might seem strange to talk of silence in a comic book but the first page is perfectly understated; letting the sound of the TARDIS materialising and the slight creek of floorboards tell the story; laid out over some nice cinematic establishing shots of the cottage.

Other assured artistic choices by Emma Vieceli and colourist Hi-Fi are characters breaking frames to emphasise heighten emotions, layering of panels with action underneath – in this case, the monster’s green footprints wandering under the action, and a great moment where the Doctor’s fabulous blue eyes turn to black pinpricks as he becomes exasperated at Josie’s literary blindspot.

If i was to nitpick then one feature that I’m not sure about are the random rectangles of various shades of colour that occupy certain pages – sure they balance out the layout, connote movement and make your eyes journey across the page easier but some of them seem a little out of place or inconsequential.

That said, the artwork is consistently bright and engaging – with some beautiful pastel shades and charismatic character designs.

I guess, if you were looking for a one-word review for the issue, then charismatic isn’t a bad choice. It’s a confident, engaging start. George Mann’s Eighth Doctor is spot on; he’s not the battle weary soul we saw in the mini-episode but he certainly displays the witty, romantic charm of the TV Movie – the joy he gets from encouraging Josie to be the best she can be is an obvious highlight in an issue that’s full of potential for future adventures.

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Robert Banks Stewart (1931- 2016)

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Robert Banks Stewart, the greatly-respected writer and creator of the Zygons, has died at the age of 84.

Stewart is perhaps best known as the creator of Bergerac and Shoestrong, but Doctor Who fans will admire him most for creating the Zygons and Krynoids in Terror of the Zygons and The Seeds of Doom, both of which are now remembered as truly classic Fourth Doctor adventures. It is, of course, testament to his genius that the Zygons were not only in the most recent series of Doctor Who, but also in arguably the most important tale of recent times, The Day of the Doctor.

Born in Edinburgh in July 1931, his Scottish heritage certainly influenced his screenwriting; both David Tennant and John Barrowman recalled how excited they were to see the Doctor in Scotland, the former especially keen to bring back the Zygons in his time as the Tenth Doctor. It’s partly what led Steven Moffat to resurrect the monster for the show’s 50th anniversary special.

On the strength of Terror of the Zygons, Robert was invited back to script a six-episode finale to Season 13. The Seeds of Doom introduced the world to the Krynoid, an all-consuming vegetable (which, despite never returning to television, has cropped up in other media, including the short story collection, Tales of Trenzalore), and rounded off one of the strongest runs of Doctor Who ever seen. He said of Terror of the Zygons:

“I’m not good at doing things which are set in outer space, and I said I’d rather do one that was set on Earth. I suggested I do one about the Loch Ness monster, where we find out it’s really an alien, and there’s an underground river which leads from Loch Ness to the sea, that no one knows about.

There were also aliens, and I thought the guy who is the Laird should be another space alien – I thought it was a nice idea, the Highland Laird, wearing his kilt and drinking his malt whisky, but is from outer space. It was a lot of fun.

We couldn’t go to Scotland to shoot it, so in the end we went down to West Sussex. They managed to do a decent job of it, making it look like Scotland.

Back in those days, there was no CGI (computer generated imagery) or anything like that – they had to use puppets and stop-motion animation, and I think it was okay for the time.”

He was to write a third story, The Foe From The Future, but this ultimately fell through (althought Big Finish did eventually adapt the tale).

Having previously worked as a journalist, is scripting career included episodes of The Avengers, Knight Errant Limited, Ghost Squad, and Adam Adamant Lives!. Following Doctor Who, he continued as a writer, script editor, and producer, creating the massively-popular shows, Bergerac and Shoestrong, starring John Nettles and Trevor Eve respectively. Louise Jameson also starred in Bergerac, and paid tribute to the writer on Twitter.

Bergerac kept me sane in the 80s. So much to be grateful for. RIP the very dear Robert Banks Stewart. I' ve really had enough of this week

— Louise Jameson (@Lou_Jameson) January 15, 2016

He also produced Lovejoy, Hannay, and The Darling Buds of May.

At the age of 81, he released the novel, The Hurricane’s Tail, a political thriller that introduced Detective Sergeant Harper Buchanan; the book was originally meant as a television series, but executives were resistant to the idea, which he attributed to ageism. Last year, Miwk published his autobiography, To Put You in the Picture. His last television worok was 2001-03’s My Uncle Silas, starring Albert Finney.

Robert Banks Stewart died on Thursday of cancer, and is survived by his three sons and a daughter.

Our thoughts are, of course, with his friends and family.

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