Friday Links Meets Chris and Roz

A blast from the past for this week’s Friday Links – Big Finish are finally admitting that they really want to drag more New Adventures material into their stable, with a series of audio adaptations of the mostly-out-of-print original novel range from the 90′s. They recently announced that they were adapting the excellent Gareth Roberts novels featuring the Fourth Doctor and Romana – finally bringing Tom Baker and Lalla Ward in to work together for the first time since their divorce in the early 80′s – but the next announcement was even more exciting for me.

Big Finish recently recorded an audio adaptation of Damaged Goods, the only New Adventures novel to be written by Russell T Davies (and correct me if I’m wrong, but also the first canon appearance of a blowjob in the Doctor Who universe?). This is exciting because we finally get audio casting for Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester, who were the Seventh Doctor’s companions for a good chunk of the 90′s. Given the phenomenal success of Lisa Bowerman’s Bernice Summerfield as a flagship hero and all-around iconic character of the Big Finish range, it’s amazing that they waited fifteen whole years to bring back our favourite Adjudicators.

And the roles go to… Travis Oliver and Yasmin Bannerman, both of whom have appeared in New Who.

If you’re wondering who Chris and Roz are, check out this post from my WHO50 blogging project in which I reviewed the first book in which they appeared, and talked about my love for this crimefighting odd couple: Chris, Roz and Original Sin.

I’m pre-ordering the hell out of this sucker.

No other links for today, I’m awash in sci-fi 90′s nostalgia!