Audio Dramas

Big Finish has been producing original Doctor Who audio dramas for more than 20 years now. After the original show went off the air on the BBC, the gap was filled by original and slightly more adult-oriented novels published by Virgin Books and new audio dramas produced by Big Finish. The production company began with […]

Doctor Who Magazine writer and BBC Radio Editor Emily Cook has another line-up of impressive names set for this Saturday's Doctor Who Lockdown global rewatch of Doctor Who: An Adventure in Space and Time. Starting at 7 p.m. U.K. British Standard Time (2 p.m. U.S. Eastern Standard Time), writer-actor Mark Gatiss and actor Sacha Dhawan […]

A little more than two months after it was announced Neil Gaiman (American Gods), Dirk Maggs (Good Omens, Anansi Boys), and Audible Originals were teaming up for the first-ever audio production adaptation of the author's popular and highly influential The Sandman, fans are being introduced to the all-star line-up of talent set to bring the works […]

A little more than a year after Gimlet Pictures and Blumhouse Television announced they were looking to bring writer and director Aaron Mark's podcast The Horror of Dolores Roach to series, the project has found a home at Amazon. Deadline Hollywood reports that a virtual writers' room is being set-up with Dara Resnik (Apple's Home Before Dark) […]

Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell kicked off the global rewatch and live-tweet of "Human Nature" and "Family of Blood" by penning and posting a new introduction to the two-part adventure entitled "Shadow of a Doubt" that also brought back Lisa Bowerman's Bernice Summerfield. From there, Cornell joined Doctor Who Magazine writer and BBC Radio producer […]

Anchorman stars Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd will be taking their limited series adaptation of Wondery and Bloomberg's 2019 podcast The Shrink Next Door with them to Apple TV+, with the streaming service giving a straight-to-series order for the eight-episode limited series from MRC Television. Directed by Michael Showalter (The Big Sick) and written by […]

Doctor Who fans have been getting some serious help dealing with being in home lockdown and Doctor Who Monthly magazine's Emily Cook has been the main ringmaster making all of these online rewatch sessions and live-tweeting runs possible. For their part, the cast and creatives behind the series have been stepping up in a big […]

Big Finish Productions, the premiere producers of Doctor Who audio dramas and other series, are reportedly moving to releasing content on digital first. Physical releases (ex: CD boxsets) will be released at a later date due to the coronavirus pandemic. Big Finish normally releases their productions as digital downloads and CDs. The digital versions are […]

It's been awhile since we heard any news about CBS All Access' adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand. Considering the last thing we reported was James Marsden's thoughts on filming the 10-episode limited series in the midst of the growing coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, it's pretty clear why things have gone quiet. So as productions across the […]

Looking ahead to next year, an unfilmed story from Tom Baker's first season on Doctor Who will be produced by Big Finsh Productions as an audio drama. "Return of the Cybemen" was originally written by 1974 by their creator Gerry Davis. Then-story editor Robert Holmes rewrote it extensively and it became "Revenge of the Cybermen". […]

Big Finish Productions suspended the recording portion of their audio drama productions this week. They join the rest of the Film & TV industry in shutting down to avoid spreading the coronavirus (COVID-19). The company produces audio drama versions of Doctor Who, Torchwood, The Prisoner, Space: 1999, The Prisoner, Blake's 7 and may more series […]

Still jonesing for your Torchwood fix? Well, Big Finish Productions just released a new side story audio play, Torchwood: Dissected. Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) has been working for UNIT after she stopped traveling with The Doctor. It's been a while since she last worked with the Torchwood team. She's had a long day at her […]

Neil Gaiman's popular and highly influential The Sandman still remains one of fantasy's definitive works, even after 30+ years – and now, it's getting its first-ever audio production as a multi-part Audible Original directed by the visionary Dirk Maggs (Good Omens, Anansi Boys). Set to arrive this summer (with news on the voice cast coming […]

Anchorman stars Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd are going from the newsroom to living in the same home, teaming up for MRC Television's limited series adaptation of Wondery and Bloomberg's 2019 podcast The Shrink Next Door. Michael Showalter (The Big Sick) is set to direct the project, with Georgia Pritchett (Veep) writing. Also inspired by […]

Love The CW's Riverdale but hate that there's not more Jughead? Do you wrap yourself in a blanket and watch reruns of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody because you just can't get enough of sweet baby Cody? Well fear not, friends! Cole Sprouse is on a new project and bringing the smooth dulcet […]

The mysteries of Limetown will be revealed before our very eyes – literally – in less than a month, with Jessica Biel (The Sinner) and Stanley Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada) starring in Facebook Watch's 10-episode series adaptation of the popular podcast. With Rebecca Thomas (Stranger Things, upcoming The Little Mermaid) directing an episode and […]

Remember Space: 1999? It was one of the biggest cult British Space Opera shows of the 1970s. The show had more lavish effects, sets and costume designs for the period. It was produced by Gerry Anderson and shot at Pinewood Studios – think of it as pretty much Anderson's version of Star Trek. Now Big […]

Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who audio drama spinoff Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon just came out and received strong reviews. Rose (Billie Piper) is still a popular companion and her creator, Russell T. Davies, helped develop the spinoff audio series. There's an hour-long cast and writers making-of interview on the series boxset which works like […]

Big Finish announced this week that Freema Agyeman will return to play former Doctor Who companion Martha Jones in Torchwood: Dissected. This marks Agyeman's debut in a Big Finish audio drama, with the actress starring alongside Eve Myles, who reprises her role as Torchwood agent Gwen Cooper. As the official synopsis goes:   Gwen Cooper […]

Rose Tyler is one of the most popular characters in the new Doctor Who. She was the entry point for an audience discovering the show for the first time. You could say she was the face of the new show, bringing in a female  Billie Piper played her with an unforced warmth and kindness that […]