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August 1, 2014
Matthew Waterhouse & Tom Baker: Reunited?
James Lomond 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.
The narrative territory of Big Finish just keeps growing – the Companion Chronicles have explored and expanded the early years of the first three Doctors, now sadly lacking their leading men. We’ve had a new companion join Steven and the First Doctor, another come back to life as a possessed house, we’ve had new companions and new arcs for old companions from the later Classic years. But there is the odd gap here and there…
Hot on the heels of the announcement that maths genius Adric, as played by actor/author Matthew Waterhouse, will be returning alongside the Fifth Doctor later this year, is this tweet:
.@dannylavery I would be open to this and I'm told Tom has said he would too. So it's up to @bigfinish.
— Matthew Waterhouse (@MinettaLane) July 30, 2014
Waterhouse, who now resides across the Pond in New Haven, Connecticut (alleged home of the frisbee and lollipop), would be up for reprising his character alongside the Fourth Doctor – and apparently Tom Baker is up for it too… Adric was one of the last companions to travel with his Doctor, alongside Nyssa and Tegan. A diverse TARDIS trio to smooth over the transition from one Doctor to a very different one. The character was killed off in Earthshock in an act of mathsy-self sacrifice where he managed to prevent the Cybermen from wiping out the human race, bringing about the end of the dinosaurs instead.
He seems pretty keen, tweeting:
A lot of acting has a musical quality, I've always felt Tom's fab rich voice&my lighter flutier one sound great together. Perfect for audio!
— Matthew Waterhouse (@MinettaLane) July 30, 2014
It remains to be seen how convincingly he can recreate a character he last played aged 18 but he might well be right – there is something about the contrast between his and Baker’s voices that could work wonderfully on audio. The character has drawn mixed feelings from fans over the years and perhaps was written with a little too much teen-angst and joined one of the least functional TARDIS families we’ve seen over the years. That said, I jumped in to the Big Finish Fifth Doctor range recently with The Emerald Tiger and was blown away by how well the post-Adric crew worked. And then there’s the wonders that Colin Baker has delivered on audio after his less well handled tenure on-screen. Can they work similar magic with Adric’s character?…
In the meantime, here’s a trailer for MJTV’s mystical sci-fi pilot, Ghostlands from 1996 – haven’t seen it but it features Two Doctor‘s villainess Jacqueline Pearce, Sylvester McCoy and one Mr Waterhouse looking rather unwell with a raised eye-brow and creepy stare at 2m33s:
His website matthewwaterhouse.com/site is worth a visit and features links to his blog and audio snippets from his novels.
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July 31, 2014
Capaldi Could’ve Been The Eighth Doctor!
Philip Bates 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.
In the latest issue of American magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Peter Capaldi has revealed that he was potentially up for the role of the Eighth Doctor!
Paul McGann eventually made the grade and starred in the 1996 Doctor Who movie, but Capaldi says he was given the opportunity to audition – but chickened out! It was, however, for the best of reasons. “I didn’t go [to the audition],” he says. “I loved the show so much, and I didn’t think I would get it, and I didn’t want to just be part of a big cull of actors.”
From what we’ve heard, showrunner, Steven Moffat especially wanted Capaldi for the role; that The Thick of It actor was the lone horse in that race!
Personally, I’m pleased, as McGann is an excellent Doctor and remains one of my favourite actors. Nonetheless, a movie fronted by Capaldi is an idea to ponder over. If that had happened, he almost certainly wouldn’t have appeared in 2008′s The Fires of Pompeii, and he wouldn’t have had an on-screen adventure with the Daleks! In the same issue, he recalls his delight when a Dalek came out of the Thames in The Dalek Invasion of Earth: “It’s such a surprise… I loved the effort people put into making these strange worlds.”
The issue, out now in America, also features a brief guide to the show (including some, erm, unique fashion), as well as interview with Steven Moffat, director of the first two episodes, Ben Wheatley, and Jenna Coleman aka. Clara Oswald, the Doctor’s faithful companion.
Oh, and designer, Michael Pickwoad also takes Entertainment Weekly onto the TARDIS. A tweaked TARDIS, at that.
There’s also some stunning photography, so do try to pick yours up asap!
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Steven Moffat On Capaldi’s Costume
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If you’re heading into darkness, you’ll need suitably doom-laden, no-nonsense attire to kick out the jams and who better to provide such a uniform than Peter Capaldi.
A stylish, debonair figure himself, Capaldi looked into his past, added a modern cut to his cloth and gave us the ‘100% rebel Time Lord.’ Which is just as well as, like the rest of us sartorially challenged lot, it all seemed a bit much for showrunner Steven Moffat, who, when it became time to open the wardrobe of the Doctor, deferred the decision to the Doctor himself.
“He wanted to be quite stark,” Moffat revealed in an exclusive chat with SFX. “Stark and skinny. A stick-insect sort of thing. Clara actually calls him a grey-haired stick-insect at one point. We had some hilarious pictures of Peter just dressing up. It was all coming from him because he’s really into his clothes. I didn’t feel qualified to go and chat too much about it. Certainly the costume didn’t go anywhere until I shut up. The thing I’ve learned about showrunning is you need to know the bits you’re bad at!”
Much in keeping with the dictum that the new Doctor shouldn’t announce himself and command any space (or time) he happens to find himself in, Moffat also wanted a look to reflect this newly coiled Doctor.
“I’ve got certain things that I’ll say – I don’t want anything in that costume that I have to write into the script. I don’t want people saying ‘But why are you dressed as a circus clown?’ I want him to walk into a pub, a restaurant, a space conference, an army base and nobody stares at him.”
The Doctor does love to skulk about corridors and in the depths of alien habitats; the problem with all this dark clothing then might not have been people staring but rather people straining to see him. Moffat says, “There was an issue simply because it’s quite dark as a costume and it’s a show that largely takes place in a tunnel. I kept saying ‘We are going to be able to see him, aren’t we?’ I suppose the red lining helps, when the flaps are open.”
Ah, yes the flaps. Not only a practical solution to losing your Doctor in the dark but also a nod to that other fashion conscious incarnation, the Third Doctor – so what is it about the Doctor and his formal foibles?
“I think there’s always something a little bit formal about the Doctor,” the curly-haired showrunner told the mag. “Oddly enough in this series, for whatever reason, he seems to be wearing different outfits far more often than the Doctor normally does. He’s got his basic outfit but he’s in a spacesuit in one of them, and he’s a caretaker in another one and then he’s all dressed up in a later episode. He does vary it a bit. And he mixes up the basic costume, hugely. We’ve tended to see the white shirt version in public but actually the one I like best is when he wears the jumper under his coat. I think he looks like a submarine commander, like an old sailor or something. It makes him all rugged and handsome!”
Read more from Steven Moffat in the new issue of SFX, on sale now with a choice of five exclusive collectible Doctor Who covers from all good and dubious newsagents.
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UK & Ireland Deep Breath Screening & Leicester Square Premiere!
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.
BBC Worldwide has this afternoon confirmed that Doctor Who fans will have the opportunity to see Deep Breath in cinemas in the UK and Ireland, as well as on BBC One, on 23rd August 2014.
To celebrate the launch of Series 8, meanwhile, an exclusive cinema event will take place at London’s Odeon, Leicester Square on August 23rd with some very special guests in attendance. This one-off event will feature a ‘never seen before’ 5 minute video from an upcoming Doctor Who DVD release and a special 10 minute behind-the-scenes of episode 1 feature (also available on BBC red button and BBC iPlayer) followed by a Q&A with the guest stars that will be streamed LIVE into participating Cinemas across the UK and Ireland.
A limited number of tickets for the Leicester Square Cinema Event will be available to the public and can be purchased from doctorwho.tv, on Friday 1st August at 10am. Cinema tickets for other participating cinemas will go on sale Friday 1st August from 11am. More information regarding cinemas screening the episode and showing the live stream of the Q&A from the Leicester Square Cinema Event will be made available from doctorwho.tv/watch/cinema.
This year’s screenings follow the huge success of the global cinema screenings for the show’s record-breaking 50th anniversary episode – The Day of the Doctor – in November 2013. In addition to the episode being simulcast on TV in 98 territories, fans were also able to enjoy the episode on the big screen in over 1500 cinemas around the world.
Stephen Davies, Director for Live Events, told us “Following the tremendous success of the 50th anniversary screenings, this is another wonderful opportunities for fans to get together to celebrate another major milestone and enjoy the amazing opening episode of the Peter Capaldi era on the big screen”.
Doctor Who Series 8, Episode 1, Deep Breath, will broadcast simultaneously on BBC One and selected cinemas across the world including hundreds of cinemas in the UK.
Will you be watching in the cinema, or do you prefer to enjoy Doctor Who in front of the TV?
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Tom Baker Rules Doctor Who EBay Sales Table!
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.
A report from eBay today tells us that with less than a month until the return of Doctor Who, a ranking has been compiled by eBay, that show fans clinging to the past rather than looking to the future…
Analysis of Doctor Who eBay sales, reveals merchandise of Tom Baker’s incarnation (1974 – 1981) outsells the other Time Lords by 203% on average, on the online marketplace, firmly cementing him as the nation’s favourite Doctor.
Tom Baker tops the lists of merchandise listings and sales, with David Tennant and Matt Smith falling in line behind, while Peter Capaldi, set to officially set foot in the TARDIS on August 23rd, is 10th (which we don’t think is too bad – he’s bound to end up at the top very soon!).
For collectors, Sylvester McCoy – the Seventh Doctor – is the most lucrative, yielding the greatest individual return. Items related to his brief stint sell with the highest value, with prices for his figurine peaking at £565.
Top 10 Doctors (sales):
Tom Baker
David Tennant
Matt Smith
William Hartnell
Paul McGann
Patrick Troughton
Sylvester McCoy
Colin Baker
Peter Davison
Peter Capaldi
eBay Spokesperson, Laura Wilkinson-Rea says, “It really speaks to Tom Baker’s iconic Doctor Who status that he continues to outsell the other Doctors. It also seems like the Universe is safe for now as the Doctors are far outselling the baddies. For example, eBay.co.uk currently lists 200,000 items of Doctor Who merchandise
– totally dwarfing the Dalek’s 14,000.”
Who wouldn’t be fascinated to see what spin Malcolm Tucker would put on this?
We have no idea how many Doctor Who items have been sold on eBay since the site launched in the UK in 1999, but we’d like to find out. So let’s start small: have you ever bought or sold Doctor Who merchandise on eBay? What was it?
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Zoe Saldana Wants A Role in Doctor Who!
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It seems Zoe Saldana, who plays the deadly, green skinned assassin Gamora in Marvel’s new smash Guardians of the Galaxy would be up for taking a spot on Doctor Who.
In a recent interview the star was asked, having already become a franchise character in both Star Trek and now the Marvel Universe, would she be looking to secure a pension and land a part in Doctor Who? Her response seemed pretty emphatic: “Oh my god, that would be amazing. I would love it.”
Yup, it seems that Saldana would gladly jump at the chance to get in on the Whovian action. And as with many other stars looking to get on the show, the root of it all is a young family member. Zoe says that her niece is a die-hard Whovian, able to name actors and characters dating back to day one. “She dresses like a Whovian every day... I’d be cool forever to her.”
She has already earned some serious awesome Aunt points by getting co-star Karen Gillan to sent her a video message, so surely getting her to put in a word with The Moff wouldn’t be too hard to manage would it?
But the big question that this brings up is with both this and the story that Peter Jackson are both up for getting involved in the show, are we running the risk of heading back down the road of ‘stunt casting’ of the like that the show was massively criticised for in the late 1980′s?
We all remember (or have at least heard about) the backlash surrounding appearances from Richard Briers, Nicholas Parsons, and dare I mention it, Ken Dodd. By roping in the likes of Jackson and Saldana, will the show be viewed in the same way as it was back then, or would it simply be seen as the kind of show that can attract A list guest stars?
Personally I have no problem with any of it; if Peter Jackson wants to direct an episode then I’m all for it (mostly as I remember the days when he directed things like Brain Dead and Bad Taste and would love to see what fresh madness he could bring to the show, especially if he was allowed to write it too). Anything that raises awareness for the show and could potentially produce a spectacular episode can only be a good thing. The same is true for getting in guest stars like Saldana. It’s not like they can’t act, or have no experience in the genre. Hell, this woman has been a blue alien, a green alien and operated the switchboard on the Enterprise amongst other things: I’d say that more than qualifies her for the kind of action that Doctor Who could throw at her, and no doubt a strong guest star could raise the game of the other cast members?
If I’m being honest I never even had a problem with Ken Dodd being in the show. Doctor Who, like it or not, has a long history of memorable guest spots. Everyone from Brian Blessed to Andrew Garfield, Kyle Minogue and Timothy Dalton to Richard E. Grant and Sir Ian McKellen. As long as they can a) do the job and give a good performance and b) draw in an audience that may not have otherwise tuned in then they are serving their purpose, and that includes good old Ken Dodd.
But what’s your view on it all? Should we let guest stars in more freely or do you think it degrades the show somehow? Leave us a message in the space below and join the debate.
(Via Radio Times.)
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Delia Derbyshire 7″ Vinyl Limited Edition
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A pair of compositions from electronic music innovator Delia Derbyshire are about to be released on vinyl in a special collector’s edition.
Derbyshire, one of the great unsung heroes of the creation of Doctor Who, is best known for her brilliant and enduring realisation of Ron Grainer’s theme but this was just one of the ground-breaking compositions she was responsible for.
A true pioneer of electronic music, Derbyshire has in recent years started to be recognised for the key role she played in experimenting with sounds which were unlike just about anything previously heard.
Now Silva Screen Records have put together a limited edition 7″ vinyl release consisting of two tracks which give a flavour of this brilliant composer’s work: The Delian Mode and Blue Veils and Golden Sands.
The Delian Mode, the A side track on the disc, was composed as incidental music for the BBC’s long-running star gazing series The Sky at Night in 1969 and Blue Veils and Golden Sands was written for a 1967 documentary.
Delia would go on to describe in beautifully poetic terms how the latter piece involved a fair amount of improvisation which involved her own voice and a BBC lampshade:
“I analysed the sound into all of its partials and frequencies, and took the 12 strongest, and reconstructed the sound on the workshop’s famous 12 oscillators to give a whooshing sound. So the camels rode off into the sunset with my voice in their hooves and a green lampshade on their backs.”
Reviewed by Gramophone Magazine when these pieces were released on the BBC Radiophonic Album, it’s clear that the writer could see that a special talent was at work, even if they struggled to explain why:
“Blue Veils and Delian Mode are probably the finest music here. It may be no accident that the latter is reminiscent of the beginning of Xenakis’s OrientOccident for Delia Derbyshire follows the analytical approach of the more sustained electronic compositions. If her best pieces seem the most imaginative here—and they are—it is because she more fully explores the implications of her material.”
The disc is released on 25th August 2014 consisting of 7″ vinyl, gatefold sleeve and pull-out poster and is available for pre-release at £11.99. Be quick – only 500 have been made!
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BBC Releases 4 Images From Doctor Who Deep Breath!
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.
The BBC has today made four images available from the forthcoming Doctor Who Series 8 opener Deep Breath!
Featuring stills of Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and Neve McIntosh as the Doctor, Clara and Madame Vastra, the images have been collated into a gallery for you below, and are the first officially released snaps from the episode (screengrabs from the trailer notwithstanding!)
While little is apparently given away in these images (traditionally material released in this way is almost always 95% from the first 20 minutes with the odd cleverly inserted but out-of-context still from a key moment in the final act) they certainly help to set the tone for the episode, which is apparently set in the 19th century.
And doesn’t Clara look like, well, Clara?
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10 Years of Kasterborous: The Way We Weren’t
Philip Bates 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.
This month marks 10 years since work on Kasterborous began.
We don’t often do this, but please allow us to get all mellow for a while and talk about ourselves, won’t you?
Kasterborous was founded by Christian Cawley and artist/designer, Anthony Dry, as a way of paying off gambling debts, back in July 2004. This was when work started, but officially, it was another six months before the K burst onto computer screens big-time.
Something many of you don’t realise is that Kasterborous started life as “Hot Pictures of Billie Piper”, a way of both making money through advertising and convincing friends and family that googling photos of Billie Piper was work-related. This was before she appeared in Doctor Who or was even announced as the new companion. This was seen as an incredible bit of foresight and Christian took it as a sign that a Doctor Who site would be his calling.
The initial idea was to couple quality writing with the very best art. Dry set about designing the best-looking site he could think of, and Christian drafted in as many drinking buddies as possible to put together words consisting of more than one syllable and rearranging them to make meaningful sentences. Sometimes, those early articles even made sense.
Since then, up to 12 people a day visit the site regularly, and the number of contributors has also swollen.
Andy and Mez provided news day-to-day, and Brian came in as Associate Editor, a job that continues to run parallel with his other two lines of work: working for the NSA; and pretending to be David Tennant in order to cash several pay cheques. I joined in 2011 after I dug up some dirt on Christian and blackmailed him into giving me a job.
But before that, I was just a reader and a big Doctor Who fan. When I took the jump and emailed through the contact page, I couldn’t have expected how welcoming everyone was. Sure, they called me a cheeky young upstart with ideas above his station. Sure, they regularly got me to clean the entirety of K Towers with only a dirty rag. And sure, Christian hunted me down for sport on a game reserve one bleak weekend in March. But that’s all water under the bridge and since then, I’ve gone on to write numerous promotional items about burlesque, a news article about Karen Gillan doing a naked selfie, and a widely-read piece about Jenna Coleman going topless in Room at the Top. If that’s not success, I don’t know what is.
I have to thank Christian and the team for being so approachable and I genuinely view them all as friends. (Apart from Andy. Too shifty-looking.) And I’ve also got to thank you, the loyal readers, who carried on visiting Kasterborous throughout what is commonly referred to in K Towers as “The Lewd and Rude Years”, “The Drunken Tenure” and, of course, “The Blue Period.”
As far as I’m concerned, Christian with his merry band of men (plus Becky) have kept the K at the forefront of the Internet – at least when it comes to quality sci-fi and content.
We’ve also got two magazines under our belt, and an award-winning* book, Ultimate Regeneration. (*Christian made some awards out of Smartie tubes and Rolo wrappers.) And that’s not even mentioning the increasingly-popular PodKast. Let’s not mention it.
Christian’s also unveiled our sister site, www.cultbritannia.co.uk, in case there are people in Britain who like things that aren’t Doctor Who (highly unlikely, I know).
Kasterborous contributors have gone on to great things. Anthony Dry has since made incredible art for various Doctor Who DVDs and the Doctor Who Experience. Mez is very busy appearing on Broadway under the nom de plume, John Barrowman (you’re not foolin’ anyone, Mez!) . And Barnaby regularly attends parliament. He gets thrown out, but he attends and that’s what counts. Well, I say contributors have gone on to great things – Scott went to Bath Spa University, but we can’t all live the dream.
Christian, too, has moved on. He has since paid off his huge gambling debts, has become a freelance writer, got married, had two kids, and invested large amounts of money in an offshore account. Nonetheless, he has evaded the police and carries on looking after the interests of thousands of Whovians. Kasterborous, at least to this glass-eyed 83-year-old communist, remains a family, and you can never really escape family. Scott has tried, but we dragged him back earlier this year, albeit briefly, under the ruse that he’d won a helicopter, and to claim, all he had to do was review a book of fan fiction and give us his bank account details.
Even Anthony Dry has been grabbed by the collar and beaten by some heavy-set men in trench coats (and flares) until he agreed to give the old dog a redesign.
Gareth, meanwhile, created Vworp! Vworp!, a fanzine that’s probably the most beautiful fanzine you’ve ever seen. Ask him when the next issue’s coming out; he’ll love that.
A further change came when the Lass O’Gowrie, where Christian and co. spent their evenings eating pork scratchings, playing Space Invaders and singing “Oh, Danny boy”, was forced into new management. As it appeared in Scream of the Shalka – yes, really! – it’s one of the most famous pubs in the UK, just behind The Queen Vic (but ahead of that one in Corrie). I joke, but it really was a travesty and those who threw their weight around and made a much-loved home into a cold cave should be ashamed.
Christian eventually moved on from this, however, when he found a nightclub selling Jagerbombs for £2 each.
Cheap shots aside, as a writer, I do think us humble, dishevelled contributors have to thank Christian for his tireless work. We rarely think of how wide our reach is, and the chance to get our writing acknowledged internationally really is an incredible one. I also want to thank all the contributors because I’m a Doctor Who fan and it gives me great pleasure in talking to you all and reading your stuff.
When my co-contributors found out Kasterborous is 10, there were some great reactions. Some humbling, some hilarious, some I can’t print. Here are some of my favourites… Scott said, “When I’m rich and famous I’ll not forget you all.” (He totally will.) Daniel said, “Congratulations to everyone who has made this the site that it is today, especially the founding fathers.” James ‘The Party Pooper’ McLean: “A decade of your life spent in the pursuit of a TV show. No, that’s meant to make you feel good, seriously.”
Nick said, “I consider it an honor and privilege to be able to sling my two cents around the interweb with you all.” Barnaby: “You big softies.” Becky: “Good to know we haven’t destroyed everything yet.” James Lomond: “Trying to do K proud – just submitted today’s offering with “sex” in the first sentence and “biting” in the last. Onwards!”
And Alasdair wants a raise. Nothing to do with the 10th anniversary; he’s just like that.
Wait until we tell them that we don’t officially start celebrating until January 2015.
When it comes down to it, what I’m trying to say to all those who started Kasterborous off in a drunken stupor, especially Christian, is… Congratulations and thank you, boss. Here’s to another 10 years! (And I hope that, next time you regenerate, your temperament and personal hygiene improve.)
Finally, I’ll leave you all with my favourite response to the big 1-0 celebrations, courtesy of Mez: “Watch us run…”
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July 30, 2014
RTD’s Damaged Goods: Big Finish Complete Recording!
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Cocaine, Sex and the Doctor? Revolutionising Doctor Who before he went on to well…revolutionise Doctor Who, Russell T Davies fused flawed characters surviving Thatcher’s Britain with hard-hitting sci-fi in the novel, Damaged Goods and now, it is finished…
Big Finished!
Recording is now complete on Doctor Who: Damaged Goods – Big Finish’s much anticipated, properly grown up adaptation of Russell T Davies’ hard hitting Virgin New Adventures novel.
The eagle-eyed amongst you may recognise the actors chosen to bring the much-loved companions of Chris and Roz to life in their first audio appearance as having already appeared in Russell’s Doctor Who era.
Travis Oliver is perhaps best known to Doctor Who fans for playing Milo in the TV episode Gridlock while Yasmin Bannerman played Jabe in the story The End of the World. This is Yasmin’s third Big Finish – she was in The Bride of Peladon and The Fourth Wall.
Michelle Collins is also no stranger to the show either, having appeared in the Tenth Doctor story, 42, as Captain Kath McDonnell.
Rounding out the rest of the cast are: George Fuller as Winnie’s daughter Bev, Tayler Marshall as Gabriel, Robert Duncan as Mr Thomas, Richard Hope as Harry Harvey, Daniel Brocklebank as David Daniels, Damien Lynch as Scott Delaney and Peter Barrett as The Capper!
Speaking of The Capper, Producer David Richardson – who, thanks to a TV Zone interview with Russell T Davies in 1995, had a hand in getting the original book commissioned, tweeted a little snippet about the arrival of the drug dealer that won’t stay dead.
Day 2 of recording #DoctorWho Damaged Goods. Beware The Capper!
— David Richardson (@RichardsonBF) July 29, 2014
Getting in on the excitement, Big Finish also took to Twitter to tease forthcoming scenes from the Jonathan Morris adaptation.
Amazing, powerful scene being recorded right now. @missmcollins and @deniseblackuk giving me goosebumps. #DoctorWho Damaged Goods
— Big Finish (@bigfinish) July 28, 2014
Just how much of the themes and content will make it into the adaptation remains to be seen but could this be the ideal forum for more adult, starker Doctor Who adventures? What other novels would you like to see adapted for the new Doctor Who: Novel Adaptations range? Timewyrm? Nightshade? No Future?
Damaged Goods will be released in August 2015, as a standard and special edition alongside an adaptation of the Missing Adventures novel, Gareth Roberts’ The Well-Mannered War, and is available for pre-order from Big Finish now.
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