| New Doctor Who adventures on
audio |
 It has been
announced that BBC Worldwide has awarded Big Finish Productions, the
independent production company behind the audio stories of Bernice
Summerfield's New Adventure novels, a licence to produce official, new
Doctor Who audio dramas.
It is
planned that these stories will be recorded as fully dramatised radio plays and
will feature a mixture of previous Doctors and companions. Peter Davison, Colin
Baker and Sylvester McCoy have already agread to recreate their roles, and the
producers also hope to work with both Tom Baker and Paul McGann. Each Doctor
will, where possible, be teamed with their particular assistants played by the
original actors.
The
first story, "The Sirens of Time", has been written by Nick Briggs and features Peter
Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy as the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh
Doctors. It is planned that this story, which has been described as "a
multi-Doctor story with a twist", will be recorded in the Spring for
a possible release in June 1999. Exact story details are unknown except
that Peter Davison
will be in episode 1, Colin Baker in episode
2, Sylvester McCoy in episode 3, and all three performers in the final
episode of this 4 part adventure.
Each
adventure will be in the same format as a TV story, with four twenty-five
minute episodes. It is planned that each story will be released every other
month on two cassettes. It will also be released on a double CD which will only
be available exclusively through mail-order.
This new
venture will be overseen by BBC books editor Stephen Cole, who has been named
Executive Producer for the BBC. It is understood that he is keen that the new
stories tie in closely to the continuity established by the television series
and that they will be considered official Doctor Who canon by the BBC. They
will produced by Jason Haigh-Ellery and former Doctor Who Magazine
editor and author Gary Russell. Several other established Doctor Who
authors have been approached to write further stories, including Marc Platt,
Andy Lane and Mark Gatiss.
Visit the
Big Finish Productions Web Site for
more information on the Bernice Summerfield's New Adventure audio stories and
this new exciting Doctor Who project to release new audio stories.
Click here for
more information on the stories to be released.
At long
last... The Doctor is back.
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