Big Finish: New Counter-Measures, Omega Factor and Jago & Litefoot!

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Here’s your latest News Blast – this one from the marvelous land of Big Finish Productions!

The New Counter-Measures

Big Finish has announced that a new series, The New Counter-Measures will launch in 2016. This new series continues the tales of the military organisation, first introduced in Remembrance of the Daleks (1988), now challenged by the resurgence of UNIT.

This new series takes place after Counter-Measures: Series 4, the last (and presumed finale) of Big Finish’s take on Counter-Measures till this newest series. The new Counter-Measures will be led by Hugh Ross (Sir Toby Kinsella).

The relaunch will begin a double-disc special in July 2016 followed by a four part boxset in December 2016.

The Omega Factor: Series 2

The Omega Factor will be returning to Big Finish with a second series hot on the heels of the success of its first series with Big Finish. The Omega Factor, a former television, follows the adventures of two investigators of paranormal activity played by Doctor Who’s Louise Jameson and John Dorney.

For producer, David Richardson, bringing The Omega Factor back for a second series is a childhood dream.

“The Omega Factor was one of my favourite TV series of the 70s, and I was so disappointed when it didn’t MAKE it to a second series,” says Richardson. “Three and a half decades later, I can help put that right, as Lou, John and Natasha Gerson come back for four more episodes.”

The new second series will launch in 2016.

Trailers Releashed

New trailers for two of Big Finish’s most anticipated new boxsets, UNIT: Extinction and Doom Coalition 1 have landed –

Doom Coalition 1 is expected to be released in October.

And… UNIT: Extinction will be released the next month in advance of the Official Doctor Who Festival, says Big Finish.

Jago & Litefoot are back!

Big Finish also delighted fans with an announcement that Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter would return to Jago & Litefoot for its Series 11 in April 2016.

Teasing fans with some juicy details, Big Finish notes that the boxset’s first story, Jago and Son, will feature Jago’s previously unknown son played by James Joyce (UNIT: Extinction). The next two stories in the boxset feature two historical characters, Maurice sees the investigators meet Maurice Ravel, the famous French composer, while Jago & Litefoot also come face-to-face with Dracula’s Bram Stoker in The Woman in White.

The finale written by script editor Justin Richards remains a bit of a mystery with Big Finish teasing the return of a foe familiar to Doctor Who fans, described as a “menace” and a “darkest force”.

While Series 11 sounds fantastic enough, don’t get too ahead of yourself, fans: Series 10 is launching in October and a special, Jago & Litefoot and Strax featuring the Sontaran nurse himself is due to arrive in November.

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