Audio drama podcasts are still a Wild West with untapped potential, and SCREW! is the latest swing in trying something different: a feminist rewriting of Shakespeare's most sexist play. That play is The Taming of the Shrew, a comedy about how a domineering man "tames' his new fiery and bad-tempered wife into becoming an obedient […]
A Better Paradise, the Science Fiction audio drama podcast written by Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games and creative director behind the bestselling Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption video game franchises, will be published as a novel later this year. The book, A Better Paradise Volume One: An Aftermath, is an adaptation of […]
Next Chapter Podcasts and Play On today announced the release of SHREW!, a groundbreaking new audio drama series premiering on March 10. A sharp and inventive reimagining of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, SHREW! brings the classic comedy into the 21st century with wit, energy, and a fresh perspective. Amy Freed wrote SHREW! as a reaction to Shakespeare's […]
Netflix has picked up the hit Audible Originals podcast Impact Winter, to be developed for a series with Constantine and Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence directing. The series is created by Travis Beacham, whom geeks would know from being the screenwriter of Pacific Rim. Vampires in a post-apocalyptic world. Sounds a bit like 30 Days of Night […]
Fans have long wondered what happened between the events of Star Trek: The Original Series season one episode 'Space Seed' that introduced the galaxy to the charismatic tyrant Khan Noonien Singh, played by Ricardo Montalban, and 1982's Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan that saw his return for revenge against the U.S.S. Enterprise captain-turned-admiral […]
David Tennant may have left Doctor Who for now, but he hasn't left Science Fiction or Fantasy behind since he's currently (reportedly) wrapped filming the finale movie of Good Omens, and despite taking on many "realistic" mainstream dramas, he's more than willing to do another Science Fiction project if a good one comes along. The […]
This is the kind of news that can really make a Doctor Who fan's weekend a whole lot better. During the Gallifrey One convention in Los Angeles, it was revealed that Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper would be reuniting as the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler for a 12-part audio drama series from Big Finish Productions […]
It turns out things weren't always copacetic between Cheers stars Ted Danson and Kelsey Grammer, and the Frasier star revealed that it resulted in a 30-year falling out to the New York Post. Grammer, who first played Dr. Frasier Crane in season three in Cheers, appeared on the podcast Where Everybody Knows Your Name hosted […]
Everyone's favourite new "lost" Doctor Who Jo Martin isn't going away anytime soon. She and Alice Krige star in The Fugitive Doctor: Dead or Alive, a second series box set of full-cast audio drama due in July 2025 from Big Finish Productions. Still on the run from her old employers, the sinister Time Lord agency […]
If you're a fan of Horror, you should be excited about First World of Horror, a fifteen-part documentary series that profiles five of the finest horror writers working today. The authors profiled are New York Times bestsellers, multi-award winners, and cult favorites. In this first season, they are Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Elizabeth Hand, […]
Coming off of November 2024's Once and Future: Coda: The Final Act, Jo Martin's Fugitive Doctor has returned in a brand new audio drama series of her own – Big Finish's The Fugitive Doctor: Most Wanted. On the run from her own side – the mysterious Division – and with a dangerous gap in her memory, […]
The 1934 cult alien invasion TV series V is getting an audio drama adaptation from Big Finish Productions with the full approval and collaboration of original series creator Kenneth Johnson, who also created The Bionic Woman in the 1970s. The original V miniseries aired on NBC and continues to have a fan following amongst people […]
BBC Radio 3's Gatsby in Harlem might be one of BBC audio drama's crowning achievements, even if it has to use Ncuti Gatwa from Doctor Who as a gateway drug to attract an audience. Acclaimed playwright Roy Williams has set F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby in 1920s Harlem with an African-American (played by an […]
Ncuti Gatwa has been very busy when he's not filming Doctor Who, including acting in audio dramas like Dickens adaptations, but the most interesting is Gatsby in Harlem, a new BBC Radio 3 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby transposed to 1920s Harlem. This is not a gimmick or an exercise in identity politics but makes the story […]
Doctor Who stars get to act in all kinds of productions in between seasons, and Ncuti Gatwa and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who played Martha Jones' sister in the David Tennant run and a new role in the upcoming spinoff The War Between the Land and the Sea, are the leads of a new BBC Radio 4 […]
Molly C. Quinn is currently starring in the new season of the critically acclaimed Audible Original series Unlicensed, a scripted fiction noir from the creators of the seminal podcast Welcome to Night Vale. Unlicenced is a murder mystery set in the far reaches of LA, the plot of the second season centers around Luisa Strus […]
Yen Audio announced the upcoming adaptation of The Eminence in Shadow. The iconic series, first released as a light novel from Yen Press in 2020 and then as a manga in 2021, has also been adapted into a hit anime series. It's already hit the trifecta of manga and anime success, so why not go for […]
Out of all of Doctor Who, the Fugitive Doctor played by Jo Martin might be the most surprising and underused, introduced in "Fugitive of the Judoon" and only making cameo appearances in two other episodes for the rest of then-showrunner Chris Chibnall's run. Now she's getting her own Big Finish audio drama series starting in […]
Paget Brewster (Criminal Minds: Evolution) will lead the new Audible sci-fi mystery podcast The Signal, an eight-part series coming exclusively to the Amazon-owned podcast streaming service on December 5th. The series, which comes from Fresh Produce Media, follows disgraced astrophysicist Veronica Chapel (Brewster) through a high-stakes adventure of astronomical proportions—and even bigger ethical dilemmas. When journalist […]
Kicking off in May 2023 and spanning across eight chapters, Big Finish Productions is wrapping up its epic 60th anniversary celebration of Doctor Who with Once and Future: Coda: The Final Act – and they are not holding anything back for this one. A warrior is being hunted by a mysterious stranger in a TARDIS. […]
