Jon Hamm will star in and executive produce a new audio drama thriller series called Dungeon Masters, which will be produced by QCode and Smile and Twilight producer Temple Hill The series is created, written, and directed by journalist and author David Kushner, based on his research and writing about the table-top RPG Dungeons & Dragons, inspired by[...]
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Bosch creator Micheal Connelly has made his first stab at Horror with The Safe Man, an audio drama released by Audible starring Titus Welliver and Jack Quaid Originally a short story written for an anthology in 2011, Connelly expanded it into a feature script with his friend Terrill Lee Lankford before turning it into a[...]
I've Become a True Villainess is the first audio drama series from digital comics and novel publisher Manta in a co-production with Meet Cute Rebecca Rose plays a nameless graduate student who dies in a car crash and wakes up as the villainess in the romantic fantasy (or romantasy) novel she had been reading Now,[...]
Bestselling author Michael Connelly is best known for his crime novels and the expanding "Bosch" television universe, and The Safe Man is his first foray into audio drama The 2012 story was originally written for an anthology where authors were briefed to write a story not in the genres they were known for, and Connelly[...]
Michael Connelly, the creator of the Bosch series of books – and now television series and spinoffs – is venturing into the realm of audio drama with the Audible adaptation of his 2012 short story The Safe Man The story is Connelly's first (and so far, only) foray into the supernatural – where a reclusive[...]
I've Become A True Villainess, the popular "romantasy" by Flowing HonEy from webcomic and webnovel platform Manta is getting an audio drama series adaptation in a groundbreaking collaboration with Meet Cute, a leading fiction podcast production studio Scheduled to debut on June 11th across all major podcasting platforms, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify, this collaboration marks[...]
Now Big Finish will be bringing out a box set of audio dramas that at least features his final adventures before the 1996 TV movie where he regenerated into Paul McGann.
"Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: The Last Day" cover art: Big Finish
At the start of the TV Movie, the Seventh Doctor collected the Master's[...]
He has also written short stories that introduced other characters, and now one of them, The Safe Man, has been recorded as an audio drama from Audible starring Bosch star Titus Welliver and The Boys' Jack Quaid.
"The Safe Man" by "Bosch" creator Michael Connelly, key art: Audible
In The Safe Man, professional thief Brian Holloway (Jack[...]
After all, he's returned to play the Ninth Doctor in Big Finish audio dramas. The Man Who Fell to Earth will be streaming on BBC Radio 4 when it's released.
To many fans, Christopher Eccleston will always be Doctor Who, and now he's about to star in another Science Fiction classic: a new BBC Radio 4 adaptation[...]
She's been headlining a River Song series in audio dramas from Big Finish for years since she had her final story on Doctor Who Now she will star in The Death and Life of River Song, a brand-new series of full-cast audio dramas coming soon from Big Finish Productions It's like a whole new season[...]
The US has only just rediscovered audio drama in the 2000s and is practically reinventing the wheel in producing them as streamable podcasts Many major British playwrights and screenwriters got their start writing radio plays for the BBC It has been a training ground for new writers for generations, and some of their radio plays[...]
This brings up how audio drama podcasts have evolved since they were reintroduced in America just over a decade ago Podcasts in the US have mostly been nonfiction talk shows, the most popular centred on True Crime Radio drama and comedies died out in the 1950s when television came along, with minor exceptions like the[...]
All you need to do is close your eyes and listen to the new audio drama podcast series Slayers: A Buffyverse Story and Third Eye.
"Slayers", a Buffyverse series, Image: Audible
In case you didn't know, Slayers is a new authorized audio drama series produced by Audible set in the Buffyverse It's written by Amber Benson (who[...]
So she has spent the last twenty-four hours going through Space and Time, from prose to comics to audiobook stories to mediocre phone games to a prose novel to a full-cast Big Finish audio drama and now back to prose again Does she survive? Does this series stick the landing? Well… sort of.
"Doctor Who: Doom's[...]
Davies's three-episode Doctor Who 60th Anniversary special event set to hit our screens in November, Big Finish is nearing the endgame to its eight-episode full-cast audio drama adventure Doctor Who – Once and Future – but there's still a ton more action & intrigue on the way How soon? How about today, with Doctor Who[...]
The two spoke with Bleeding Cool on a variety of subjects, including their relationship, how Schemmel compares recording voiceovers with audio dramas and audiobooks, and more.
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The Cerebral World of 'Mindraker'
Bleeding Cool: What's the inspiration behind 'Mindraker?'
Burdine: As an artist and working in animation, and even since I was a teenager, I've always[...]
Davies have in store for the three-episode 60th anniversary Doctor Who special event, we're also getting a chance to preview what Big Finish Productions has been up to with its eight-episode full-cast audio drama adventure Doctor Who – Once and Future Kicking off in the middle of The Time War, an injured Doctor is being[...]
He first voiced Luther Arkwright in the first Big Finish audio drama adaptation of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright in 2005, back when he was an unknown and was playing supporting roles and bit parts in Big Finish productions Luther Arkwright was one of his first big leading role jobs, albeit in audio "There was[...]
Starting this August and continuing through 2024, all three scripted audio drama releases will be available exclusively on Audible. Co-written by author Patterson and Duane Swierczynski, the new Audible Original Zero Tolerance, starring Swank, debuts Thursday, August 24th on Audible The audio drama also stars Christine Ko, Melonie Diaz, and a full cast.
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Sergeant Jo Barnes (Swank)[...]
The Lesser Dead, an uncompromising horror audio drama podcast series, is now available for free on all podcast platforms The official launch includes behind-the-scenes episodes featuring interviews with the cast, writers, and makers of the series to reveal the thinking behind the 1970s-set urban vampire tale.
"The Lesser Dead" key art: Echoverse
The Lesser Dead is an immersive[...]
Audible announced a new scripted sci-fi comedy Third Eye, created by genre legend Felicia Day, with Neil Gaiman as The Narrator and more.
& DC have the six-episode audio drama podcast The Flash: Escape the Midnight Circus speeding your way The first-ever podcast for the iconic DC character has an original, standalone storyline featuring Barry Allen, aka The Flash (Max Greenfield; The Neighborhood, New Girl), Iris West, and other characters from the DC universe.
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Along with an official[...]
We'll probably get a greater sense of Doom's personality when we hear Kempner play her in the upcoming audio drama chapters of Doctor Who: Doom's Day.
We Need to Care about Doom – and So Far, We Don't
This brings us back to the dubious prospect of following Doctor Who: Doom's Day across different media[...]
It's the most ambitious, hopping between prose stories on the official show's website, the Doctor Who comic, Big Finish audio drama, and prose books You can read the first chapter of the story in prose form on the official Doctor Who website.
"Doctor Who: Doom's Day" key art: BBC
Doctor Who: Doom's Day Hour One is written[...]
It unsettles and disturbs, and unlike most audio dramas, it leaves a lingering disquiet.
The Lesser Dead is now available on the usual podcast platforms.
The Lesser Dead is the latest drama podcast series to stake a claim in the horror genre There have been crime thrillers, Science Fiction, and dramas – some that dip their[...]
Right…?
James Goss is a prolific writer and producer of many Doctor Who audio dramas at Big Finish Productions, whose work is known for its wit and inventiveness However, this is a terrible look for the BBC For the BBC to replace the female LGBTQ producer of a drama featuring LGBTQ women as the leads with[...]
But as we learned last November, Big Finish Porductions is stepping up in a big way with the eight-episode full-cast audio drama adventure Doctor Who – Once and Future Kicking off in May 2023, the story begins in The Time War as an injured Doctor is being cared to at a field hospital when he[...]
Spotify, DC & Warner Bros. announced Christina Ricci & Billy Magnussen will be lead the audio series Harley Quinn and The Joker: Sound Mind.
With the second season of audio drama action already available to stream, HBO Max has been rolling out the first season of DC's Batman: The Audio Adventures for free on YouTube, and we have the first five chapters to pass along Created by Dennis McNicholas (Saturday Night Live) and presented in the style of an[...]
Sam and Sarah must call on their very singular set of skills to neutralize Gordian Sword and stop the weapon from falling into the wrong hands – at any cost…"
The audio drama adaptation is written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and Paul Cornell, each writing four episodes The audio drama version of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Firewall[...]